Qt For The Console

lintux writes: "You probably know Qt as the fine toolkit for the less-fine X. Today something cool reached a stable state: Qt for the console. A Qt library port which allows you to port Qt programs to the console! Just imagine a full-featured web browser like Konqueror, on a 386 text-machine! I tried some things, and I never want to use w3m or lynx again, I can tell you that!" Update by HeUnique:While I do approve of the job these guys have done on console QT, I believe they may need to properly relicense their project under the GPL.

Comments

"which is still being developed by Trolltech"

[56ker]

What? The Trolls have formed their own company? Oh no! :o)

Performance is great!

[mbrubeck]

With just a little Makefile hacking I got most of KOffice to compile. Now it runs nice and fast on my older UNIX servers! I'm looking forward to the next version with a compressed protocol that will improve speed on slow terminal devices.

Recursion

[Ed Avis]

They have ported konsole... so the burning question is will Qt-console run correctly inside that? If so there is no longer any need for screen(1) or even window managers - konsole's screen-switching buttons can do the job of changing between windows.

Or maybe Emacs's M-x term, if anyone ported Emacs to Qt.

Re:Holy crap.

[flossie]

Notice the elegant Slashdot logo rendered in text. That, my friends, is a sure sign of a fiendish mind at work :). Modern Art!

umm... MOD THIS *UP*

[jonnythan]

That's the actual main.cpp from the downloadable file.

The whole thing is a joke.

Re:qt

[GigsVT]

Qt is Quicktime. Qt is being devloped by Apple as a fully functional toolkit for creating GUI applications in X. Many Linux applications were written in Quicktime, in fact most of KDE is Quicktime. The licensing arguments are about the sorensen license, that Apple chose for Qt. It may or may not be compatible with the GPL.

(Remember the date, moderators.)

Gosh, what sloppy coding!

[willybur]

You might find you'll need to hand-edit the sources provided a bit to get the results advertised in the screenshots.