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What to Expect From Qt 4
An anonymous reader writes "A presentation given by Matthias Ettrich (director of Qt development, author of LyX, and founder of the KDE project), was given to the annual KDE Developer's Conference in Nove Hardy, Czech Republic. In this presentation, Matthias details what's going to be new in Qt 4.0, which will be used as a base for the next version of KDE after 3.2. Apparently, Qt 4.0 will not only include faster startup times and lighter memory usage, but will have sweeping architectural changes, including a splitting of Qt's GUI classes and non-GUI classes."
yes and no. No, I believe you are thinking of QuickTime. The topic of this article is not QuickTime.
Yes, QuickTime is at version 6-- and sucks.
The New Root Council, kickin' ass sinc
Oh man, not only are you a retard, but such a late retard at that : you successfully got middle-post, congratulations.
SHUT UP! I don't care care about the licencing, the speed, the button order reasons you give me, as LONG AS THE FILE DIALOG SUCKS, GTK based applications will NEVER be as popular as qt. Its already been confirmed by MULTIPLE case studies that KDE is the prefered desktop of CHOICE for newbies, experts and corporations alike. I tried gnome for a few weeks but I've came back to KDE because I'm fed up the 1980's stile file dialog. GNOME/GTK is a knee jerk crappy clone of KDE/QT made because of now non existant licencing rules
And don't you mod this flamebait unless you can prove me wrong (and you KNOW I'm right, and thats why you will try and hide the truth)
FLAMEBAIT! It's flamebait! Can't you stupid Slash Mods tell this is FLAMEBAIT???? Come on! It's FLAMEBAIT! Mod this flamebait! Flamebait, I tell you! Jesus!
Up your poop chute, gnome faggot!
It is official; Linux Magazine has now confirmed: GTK+ is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered GTK+ community when IDC confirmed that GTK+ market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all desktops. Coming on the heels of a recent Linux Journal survey which plainly states that GTK+ has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. GTK+ is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive programming test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict GTK+'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: GTK+ faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for GTK+ because GTK+ is dying. Things are looking very bad for GTK+. As many of us are already aware, GTK+ continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
GNOME is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time GNOME developers Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: GNOME is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
XFCE leader Olivier Fourdan states that there are 7000 users of XFCE. How many users of ROX are there? Let's see. The number of XFCE versus ROX posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ROX users. Nautilus posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of XFCE posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Nautilus. A recent article put GNOME at about 80 percent of the GTK+ market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GTK+ users. This is consistent with the number of GNOME Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Sun, abysmal sales and so on, Eazel went out of business and was taken over by Ximian who sell another troubled Toolkit. Now Ximian is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that GTK+ has steadily declined in market share. GTK+ is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If GTK+ is to survive at all it will be among Toolkit dilettante dabblers. GTK+ continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GTK+ is dead.
Fact: GTK+ is dying