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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.
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April Fools!
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From the QT-Console home page:
"You might think we are sick or some console perverts. We do admit, we are console perverts, but consider this: why not?
As an illustration of just how sick these guys really are, I encourage
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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.
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.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
That's the actual main.cpp from the downloadable file.
The whole thing is a joke.
Well, let me be perfectly clear about this having seen the source to this. Actually, they can license this under LGPL. The reason is the same reason why WINE can be licensed under LGPL and not whatever proprietary licence Microsoft uses
The reason is, having seen their code, is that they do NOT actually use code from the QT libraries at all but they purport to emulate the interface instead. Any indication to the contrary would be a misccmmunication by the authors
So basically, since the source code consists of nothing but cout , I am sure their licensing choice is just fine =)
Although this is a big april fools hoax, a real example of a GUI that works on the console can be found over at PicoGUI. (as featured formerly on /. and elsewhere)
The display framework of PicoGUI is so extensible that it will work on everything from a text-only 2 line LCD display (or smaller) up to a fully realized 3d environment courtesy of OpenGL (needs someone to code it but the OpenGL "display" driver is already in there).
Some examples:
X-Chat/PicoGUI running using PicoGUI's ncurses driver on the console:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=47
A couple of PicoGUI apps running on a 4 line Text LCD:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=64
PicoGUI running on OpenGL:
http://www.picogui.org/sshotdetail.php?index=60
This is mostly possible because of PicoGUI's strict distinction between content and presentation (Remember the design goal of the original HTML? - Bingo.) Anyway, it's a neat project to check out; the support for this is in and working now; it runs on everything under the sun; and development continues to progress at an extremely rapid pace.
~GoRK
this is not. It's a port of Tk (the Tcl graphical toolkit) to curses, and it is truly excellent.
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.
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I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
You might find you'll need to hand-edit the sources provided a bit to get the results advertised in the screenshots.
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Lynx is second rate compared to the Links command-line web browser, which I use regularly under Linux... and I am using right now. It supports SSL, tables, and many other common web technologies. Oh, and did I mention that it uses less than 1MB of RAM? Its uber fast, and perfect for reading sites like slashdot. Navigation is a breeze... no mouse needed here. Also, since Links doesn't download the overboard graphics that many websites use, sites load far quicker than in other browsers because of the smaller download. Sure there is less eye-and-ear-candy, but the net is still full of content... and Links gives you access to that content.
I love what Hotmail says, when I log in with Links. It says that my browser won't let me use Hotmails advanced features or something... whatever...
Another alternative to lynx is the ARACHNE Browser for DOS and Linux. It's a fully graphical console based Internet suite (browser, email, multimedia player), and it doesn' rely on the Qt library just svgalib. It will run on a 486 with a mere 8 meg of RAM.
A full list of features and requirements can be found from the Linux Installation page of the Arachne website.
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