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Trolltech Releases Qt/Mac Free Edition

Posted by timothy on from the choice-is-good dept.

Hank Scorpio writes "Trolltech previously announced the upcoming release of Qt/Mac Free Edition. Well, now it is available for download. Grab your copy now while it's hot! (I've already downloaded mine, so let the slashdotting commence!) Now you can run a Mac-native version of Konqueror alongside Safari!"

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  1. Re:Anybody have a binary? by ickoonite · · Score: 5, Informative

    You'll need Qt/X, the KDE libraries and an X server for that.

    You are misinformed. This makes it quite clear, I think, that X11 is not needed for running KDE applications - notably Konqueror. Yes, it's quite OK to make "ooooh" noises at the eye candy.

    iqu

  2. Re:Anybody have a binary? by Otter · · Score: 3, Informative
    Huh, I guess I'm mistaken. Is that the Konqueror from the kdenox package? How far along is it?

    If that's what it is, I wouldn't say I'm _that_ wrong -- the only app in that package is a non-standard Konqueror, and there certainly are X dependencies elsewhere in KDE. But maybe this will be the catalyst to get more non-X development going.

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  3. Re:Cool, now what? by dhovis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Basically, this means that any GPL (or GPL compatible) KDE app can now be compiled for MacOS X and use native widgets. When Apple decided to use KHTML and KJS to build Safari, they develped their own adapter library called kwq (pronoucned "quack") to stand in for Qt so they wouldn't have to license the commertial version of Qt.

    So now something like KOffice should be able to be recompiled into a "native" MacOS X application. No more need to run X11.

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  4. iTerm? by feldsteins · · Score: 4, Informative

    iTerm also allows for tabbed terminal windows. Tried it once for a few minutes, so I don't know much more about it. YMMV.

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  5. Re:the other apps too... by Otter · · Score: 4, Informative

    I solved it by making symlinks in /usr/lib to libqt.3.1.2.dylib and the other dylib, instead of to linking to the links as the INSTALL file suggests. I'm hoping to get a more expert answer, though.

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  6. Re:Kant wait for Konsole by kalidasa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does this mean that KDE in general could run on Mac? ie.: replace the 'bouncy bar' with the KDE window manager, multiple screens, etc. Or is that a window manager/X-windows thing that won't work on top of quartz?

    I'm nearly certain you can run KDE on a Mac with fink and X11 (I am certain that you can run Gnome on a Mac this way, having done so myself). You can use KDE apps on a Mac in X11 rootless if you install KDE via fink. But I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to run Aqua apps from a KDE desktop, only from an Aqua desktop (regardless of whether or not X11 is running in rootless mode with KDE apps).