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."

Comments

Trolltech and Canopy/SCO

[bstadil]

As you know 4% of TrollTech is owned by Canopy of SCO fame. We need to put some pressure on Trolltech to make sure that nobody from Canopy is on the board or has any saying whatsoever over Trolltech

I have switched to Gnome until further

Canopy Group

[Anonymous Coward]

QT seems like a good toolkit and getting rid of bloat is always a good thing. I just wish that they'd put a little pressure on their parent company (the Canopy Group) to tell their cousin company, SCO, to back off. Canopy seems to be the master mind behind the ghastly attacks on the GPL; it's ironic that Trolltech has has handled the issure pretty well: free for free work, pay for business use. Fair enough. But Trolltech should help us stand up to bullies and they are in a position to make a statment.

Re:It Sounds Nice

[Simon]

"Insightful", give me a break.

Out with the old, in with the new.
Developers can adapt or fail. It doesnt seem wise to quit working towards better systems because some guy doesnt feel like replacing his widgets.

In case you didn't notice pal, breaking compatibility IS a big deal. It costs time and money. Most OSS projects don't run on money but they definately require time. Don't you think application developers have better things to do like implement wanted features instead of scrambling to fix previously working code? or having to deal with users using different incompatible versions of Qt/KDE, or dealing with making new RPMs, .debs etc, because compatibility is broken again. Don't YOU have better things to do than hunt down RPMs of software that have been compilied on just the right Qt/KDE versions as your own setup?

Can't we just enjoy a period of Things Just Working for a while?

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Simon

Re:What I would like to see..

[arose]

Opera Web browser

I'll use Galeon thank you very much.

LyX word processor

Not bad, but Emacs and Latex are still "better".

SuSE's YaST

Yet another closed Source qT application. Mandrake Control Center uses GTK2

Scribus destkop publisher

Excelent, I'm thankfull they don't use KDE, the only application I keep QT around for.

Kylix.

Glade, with libglade for your pet language.