Hi kids,
I switched my desktop from Windows to Linux a couple of months ago [1]. 
I finally reconnected with the povray newsgroups.

I am thinking about taking a stab at a Qt editor for Linux.

I have abandoned povclipse2. It is just too slow for my use.  Granted, 
my movie is on the very huge size of SDL, and I love editing in eclipse, 
but it takes over a minute to reparse my project and I didn't want to 
spend time optimizing and caching, because I still spent too much time 
in povwin.  The bulk of my pov work is test renders of 100 frames @ 10 
seconds per frame and java just isn't cut out for that.
I was going to start qt-pov when I was on Windows, but I couldn't get 
qt-unix installed (it really wants a native-ish X screen driver, not 
cygwin/X) and I didn't want to write a windows only thing.
Qt has toolkit trees and editors, so it should be easy to get a 
barebones thing running.  The first step would be for me to get my 
bsAniPic ported from Qt/Windows to Qt/Unix.

Cheers.

-- 
dik

[1] I got a 1TB ssd for my birthday.  After several failed attempts with 
two different programs to clone my windows disk, I said fuck it, and 
installed ubuntu.  I still need win8 for Quicken, so I can spin that up 
in a vm window. Pretty slick.
I am bummed, I wanted to compare the speed of Windows on an ssd vs. hd, 
but I'll suffer gracefully.

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