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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: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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  3. Who wants to get sued? by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Trolltech is a division of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group. Another division of the Canopy group is a small Unix IP company called SCO. You might have heard of them...

    Scary huh?

    My understanding though is that Canopy has a relatively small stake in Trolltech, unlike SCO. I'd be curious to know what reason Canopy has for investing in a small software house with strong links to the open source movement. Call me suspicious, but "SCO" (Caldera) was, until a few months ago, a leading force behind a whole new Linux distribution (United Linux) and was making large quantities of sourcecode public.

    I hope really Trolltech are run by honest, decent, managers who know what they're doing.

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