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Comment Re:What Google apps _do_ people really care about? (Score 1) 163

The Play Store, it is the #1 application OEMs need, unless you are a Chinese OEM where you have a big market with established alternative stores. And Android device without the Play Store is like a Windows Phone without applications. Amazon store is a joke for OEMs because it is only available in selected markets and with the current economics of hardware manufacturing, you win money only at large scales, selling only on Amazon markets will not work for them

Comment Simple technical solution (Score 1) 341

Simple technical solution implemented in my country without insecure remote kill switch: force telephony providers to share stolen phone IMEI numbers, and block those phones on their networks. Changing IMEI number is possible, but it is beyond most thiefs knowledge, and if they know how to change it for a particular phone model, they will now how to remove the killed flag on the phone

Comment Re:For crying out loud ... (Score 1) 187

Do you think your browser is secure? every Firefox and Chrome feature releases contain critical security fixes and I don't hear people giving them the same treatment Flash get. I am not a Flash fan, but It is not fair how browser vendors are not blamed too for their bugs with the same emotion people talk about other technologies. Every time a Slashdot post talk about a new browser release never mention the security bugs, only the nice things

Comment Re:GPL and BSD give uses the same freedoms (Score 3, Insightful) 1098

For example if I write a hello world program in C++ and iostream.h is GPL. Then hello world can't be released unless it also is GPL. See the problem?

Wrong GCC libraries are GPL with an exception, for example

As a special exception, you may use this file as part of a free software
library without restriction. Specifically, if other files instantiate
templates or use macros or inline functions from this file, or you compile
this file and link it with other files to produce an executable, this
file does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by
the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however
invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by
the GNU General Public License.

Comment Re:Native Widgets (Score 1) 282

You still don't get it, every OS release make changes of how widgets behave. One example, OS X "natural" scrolling behaviour, you run and old QT application on that platform and I am sure it will not behave the same way and users notice that. QT developers are good chasing every tiny update OS providers do, that doesn't mean that old applications are updated automatically. All applications need to be updated, specially on Windows and OS X where there isn't a shared QT runtime. If WPF is the new native, I am pretty sure that any modifications Microsoft make to old widgets are added to the new ones because I don't think they want an inconsistent experience for their users (sometimes I think they don't care after Windows 8)

I still write a lot of Java Swing code, so I know custom drawn toolkits have their advantages, if you are a good developer using them, and I am not against what QT do, I am only saying that QT are not native controls (only on platforms where it is the platform toolkit)

Is this QT or GTK? http://tirania.org/s/138c98b8.png

It is GTK, do GTK use native controls? NO

Comment Native Widgets (Score 4, Informative) 282

Can we stop spreading false information about QT?

the native widgets for OS X / Linux / Windows

QT doesn't have native widgets for any platform, QT draw the widgets with their own code, it only skins them with the platform APIs if they are available, Quoting myself:

Native controls means more than to have the same look, if that is the way to measure "nativeness", then Java Swing UIs (Windows/GTK L&F) are native because they call platform theme APIs.

When a toolkit draw controls by itself, the applications normally lose a lot of UI functionality, for example, if Android/iPhone controls add proper default assistive technology metadata to their controls, the toolkit (QT in this example) need to do the same for each control they draw, because the OS don't see buttons as buttons, It see them as a custom control. If the platform control change behaviour in a new OS release, the QT control will not see it, for example when Windows added default context menus to the text fields, self drawed controls don't expose that behaviour until applications are updated with a new version

Comment Re:If it means faster CentOS development, good (Score 2) 186

Hopefully, from the FAQ

Will this new relationship change the way CentOS obtains Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code?

Yes. Going forward, the source code repository at git.centos.org will replace and obsolete the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source rpms on ftp.redhat.com. Git provides an attractive alternative to ftp because it saves time, reduces human error, and makes it easier for CentOS users to collaborate on and build their own distributions, including those of SIGs.

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