Comments on: Google Earth for Linux

By: Mobile Marketing Solutions

Mobile Marketing Solutions — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:12:19 +0000

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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:55:25 +0000

Look for ~/..googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/render/guifontsize
In it there should be a number, most likely 8, and nothing else. Increase this, (integers only), to increase the size of the font. Save the file and restart google earth if neccessary.

If the file doesn’t exist then create it and put the font size you require into it.

By: sinister13

sinister13 — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:30:02 +0000

[i]I guess if you want it to be as “compatible” as possible with all possible distributions relying on Qt can be seen as a bad thing.[/i]

I can’t see any problem with [i]compatibility[/i]. Every GNU/Linux distribution include Qt libs. I want you to know also that GoogleEarth contains it’s own copy of Qt-3 libs:

# equery files googleearth | grep libqt
/opt/googleearth/libqt-mt.so.3

By: Trizt

Trizt — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:30:10 +0000

Linux native and QT, thats really nice, I hope there will be a chance to get the source under a GPL like license, so that it won’t be x86 only.

By: ojt

ojt — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:38:18 +0000

Where have you been for the last few years? QT has been GPL since version 2.2 in 2000, although you can still choose to buy a commercial license if you like to develop commercial/closed source programs.

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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:18:40 +0000

Lots of people have a problem with Qt because the license is not GPL and it’s not Open Source. These are the same people that have problems with Nvidia and Ati making “closed” drivers.

These people are the same ones that drive people away from Linux and OSS projects. The whole mantra of ‘everything must be free’ really needs to relax and instead of saying open the source they really should open their eyes and see that is not how the world works.

the only thing wrong with Qt is KDE, but that is a personal opinion which some people can’t seem to tolerate because it’s not the same as theirs…

Flame On!

By: barrett9h

barrett9h — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:51:47 +0000

I do prefer GTK over Qt, but Qt is ok.

What I do hate is KDE or Gnome dependency.

Google Earth was the *single* app that made me want to run Windows. But I didn’t anyway :)
I’ve been running Linux as my primary system from many (7 or 8) years now, and there’s no trace on Windows in my computer for two years.

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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:00:22 +0000

the .plan file mention a “Call of Duty 2 patch” .. we are talking server stuff right?

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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:23:45 +0000

works fine on my ati 9600 card in my notebook

and there is really no problem in neither using qt or any other toolkit, you just need to choose the right for your task

in my opinion for example the gui designer from qt is really great, while gtk for example is easier to use “inline” … and tk is great for short scripts

so every toolkit has its place anyway, and i have to say that google earth did choose the right for its task

ps: ubuntu dapper here

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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:46:55 +0000

grejt!!