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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."

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  1. Novell... by BJZQ8 · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Novell is slowly changing my opinion of them...

    1. Re:Novell... by attemptedgoalie · · Score: 2, Redundant

      I'd say me too, but I still have this gut feeling that they're going to screw up heinously somehow.

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      My mom says I'm cool.
  2. answering Ob-License-Rants? by happyfrogcow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't want to use a non-Free version of QT for developing commercial aps? Fine, don't. No one is saying you have to. GTK won't die precisely because of this. Stop complaining, continue to release apps using GTK (or other toolkit) and be done with it. Or better yet, consult with someone who has great insight into the QT license and see if there is a way for you to release your commercial code independent of non-Free QT, and allow the user to link their own widget toolkit in (i.e., Free QT) post-distribution.

    I don't know if that is either technically or legally possible. just my .02