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TrollTech Releases Qt 3.0

Posted by Hemos on from the comin'-at-you dept.

Dr. Sp0ng writes: "TrollTech released Qt 3.0 today. Among the new features are platform- and database-independent data-access features, data-aware GUI widgets, a much-updated Qt Designer, and much better internationalization and font handling features. It breaks binary compatibility but keeps almost complete source compatibility with Qt 2.x. The KDE team has already begun work on KDE 3.0, which will use the new toolkit."

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  1. We have waited long... by James+Skarzinskas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Resumming this article:
    We have waited long for this day! QT3 should make from some interesting new software in this field. The database intergration looks intriguing, but it will no doubt have numerous bugs.
    </redundancy>

  2. Re:retards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe, just maybe, someone submitted the story before you did. Retard

  3. GNOME? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When will gnome get the picture that KDE has won? When QT 3.0 is integrated into KDE it will be the final deathblow for gnome.

  4. trool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    trool want juistice!!

  5. �QT 3� is not all that cute . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I assume only a few of you have looked at QT 3, let me tell you, it's nothing special.

    Thissite has more info . . .

    -- ac

  6. Binary compatibility by Starship+Trooper · · Score: 2, Troll
    While having open-source code makes source compatibility easier to handle than binary compatibility, I've been wondering if there has been any work towards improving binary compatibility between versions of major libraries. The glibc mess has made binary compatibility between distributions more and more difficult, and important libraries like Qt and the various KDE and GNOME libs regularly break binary compatibility. I realize a lot of this has to do with the C++ ABI; have the GCC people thought of any ways to make binary compatibility easier to maintain in C++ programs without requiring vtable hacks and other ugliness?

    As Linux comes of age, this is an important issue. Major companies want to bring their software to Linux, but often give up when face with the nightmare of having to support the thousands of subtly different library interfaces. Working to maintain binary compatibility for new versions of software would be a good goal for Linux's advancement.

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  7. Re:amazing progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    there's no telling how advanced our desktops will be in a few years!

    Good Lord! They might even reach the level of Windows 3.1 !!

  8. Stallman's response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The release of Qt 3.0 represents a dark day in the history of Free Software. Yet again, powerful corporate interests have been allowed to dictate to the software using community at large what 'standards' they will use, without the recourse of unlimited redistribution, and being able to see and modify the source. The fact that the popular Linux desktop environment KDE is based upon this abomination of a toolkit is..

    Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen! I take back what I said about restrictive licensing and the evils of closed-source software. What's really getting up my nose now is that Qt should be pronounced GNU/Qt!!! Don't these people know who they owe their existence to?!?!? GNU/Qt!!! GNU/Qt!!!

    1. Re:Stallman's response by RelliK · · Score: 2, Troll

      Funny? I just can't tolerate trolls like that.

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  9. Still not open-source though by corebreech · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry but I have a huge problem with running KDE when there's a dependency on proprietary software.

    That's half the reason I run Linux in the first place, the warm cozy feeling I get knowing I can access the source code behind every instruction that gets executed on my machine.

    If I don't get to access all of the source, I might as well run Mac OS X as my desktop, and do server development stuff running Linux under Virtual PC, isn't that right? (I think it is.)

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  10. Re:was wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TrollTech get paid by trolling on Slashdot.

  11. Re:database functionality... why? by anal-johnson · · Score: 0, Troll

    you should know that java sucks, shitfuck

  12. Re:Which databases do they support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why is this offtopic, asshole? Which database does the Qt 3.0 library support?