Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0

lypanov writes "Trolltech has released Qt 4.0 both under commercial and GPL licenses for X11, Mac OS X and MS Windows. It is the first time that a MS Windows GPL edition is available. To celebrate the release Trolltech employees have created a song and a music video (Bittorrent download, Ogg Theora version). Read the Qt 4 Overview and the online Qt Reference Documentation for more information. You can download Qt from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. Work on KDE 4 has already started with making a development branch of KDE compile and run with Qt 4."

Comments

Qt vs GTK

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

Trolltech is just too kind:

http://www.qtopia.net/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?c at_id=4

Gtk: Although Gtk is on Windows as well as X, Qt has a far better cross platform implementation. Qt is written in C++, instead of C, has a company standing behind it, and needs much less code to write the same app.

How about mentioning GTK is about as stable as a one-legged table during a 9.0 earthquake?

GTK apps get a NULL pointer exception and abort exceedingly often. What point is exception handling if you just abort? Might as well just deref the NULL pointer and segfault - at least one can use a debugger. And it doesn't appear GTK programs try to save state or even clean up after themselves when they exception abort.

KDE only crashes on me when Xorg kills my computer or Linux's wonderful memory management causes an out of memory error and kernel killing spree - so when Firefox memory leaks - KDE pieces and various daemons get killed too - can't blame Qt or KDE for that.

Also, doesn't Gtk shoehorn C++ like features into C, making for a God awful mess? The disadvantages of C++ without the advantages. Everyone has a C++ compiler available - g++ is free and on all platforms (well at least those supported by gcc - which is anything you'd care about).

Gnome needs to just stop competing against KDE and allow their work to be folded into KDE.

Gnome said it was about the licensing, and that has been resolved for how long now? How many years?

Linux needs a standard desktop - user's don't want to be forced to choose - app writers don't want to have to choose and no matter what - lose some customers - and Gnome is bleeding away resources that could go to KDE.