In case you haven’t heard already: Canonical ported Unity to Qt.

So far it’s only advertised as option for people without 3D drivers (like the EFL port of UNR before Unity) and no plan to make this default at some point has been announced.

To me it seems very weird, though. All that replacing and porting over and over again (UNR port to EFL, later a rewrite of UNR as Unity for Clutter/Mutter, then porting Unity from Vala/Mutter to C++/Compiz and now from Clutter to Qt with whatever window manager) makes me wonder if there are people in charge at Canonical who don’t change their mind every few months…

From a KDE perspective the increased adoption of Qt is certainly a plus but OTOH losing (or at least cutting down) Aurélien Gâteau’s paid work on KDE software is sad (he’s now part of the Unity porting team). He already announced his plans to work more on KDE software in his free time, so we won’t lose him as a community member but I fear his Unity work will go to waste in a similar way as EFL UNR just because some manager decides that everything has to be ported to Moonlight/Java/FLTK/Android/… six months from now……

What do you think is the overall picture? Will Unity-Qt help KDE due increased Qt adoption or will the work force transfer hurt KDE? Or will nothing change for us at all?