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Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated]

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-better-and-faster dept.

Balinares writes "NewsForge reports that Novell has settled for Qt as its Linux desktop development environment, casting more light on their strategy to unify KDE and GNOME. This ought to be interesting. The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance. Maybe programming will suck no longer!" Update: 03/30 00:01 GMT by T : Sounds like that story doesn't quite hold water; Nat Friedman writes in this Slashdot comment that "We have not decided that we are standardizing on Qt for the desktop. ... We support development with a variety of toolkits, and our internal development is done using the right tool for the right problem. This includes Qt, Gtk, VCL, XUL and others, depending on the application."

11 of 615 comments (clear)

  1. Re:QT? What about licensing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the GPL?

  2. Re:QT? What about licensing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What, like GPL?

  3. Boy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance.

    Boy, you really need to get out more.

    1. Re:Boy. by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 5, Funny

      Boy, you really need to get out more.

      you must be new here.

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    2. Re:Boy. by alext · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who'd have thought that .NET could actually lead developers away from Microsoft[?]

      You and Miguel?

  4. Programming by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Maybe programming will suck no longer!

    Hey, if programming were easy, people would do it for free.

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    1. Re:Programming by davecb · · Score: 4, Funny
      I think mixing C, C, ++, GTK and QT should make programming much more fun, by making it almost totally impossible (;-))

      --dave

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  5. God Dammit!!! by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hate QUICKTIME!!! /should I rtfa?

  6. If only by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only Sun had embraced Open Source the way Microsoft did, maybe Java/Swing would find itself beginning to be the consensus cross-platform GUI development platform instead of Mono... pity

  7. Re:Setting the record straight. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Novell could never impose a standard platform on the community at large

    Change "Novell" for "Microsoft" and that line gets sarcastic very quickly.

  8. Re:Setting the record straight. by ainsoph · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way for Linux to succeed is to mimic MS's API's.

    To that, we must throw out everything and clone Longhorn.

    This is so beneficial I cant believe its not obvious to everyone.