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)

main.cpp

[GreenHell]

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include
#endif

#include
#include

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
cout "Hello, World! It is April Fools :)" endl;

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

April Fools! :)

Holy crap.

[redhatbox]

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 /. readers to examine the following screenshot: Slashdot home page in Konqueror, ASCII mode. Notice the elegant Slashdot logo rendered in text. That, my friends, is a sure sign of a fiendish mind at work :).

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.

umm... MOD THIS *UP*

[jonnythan]

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

The whole thing is a joke.

Although this is entirely fake...

[GoRK]

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

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.)