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."

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QT is a cutie

[Dancin_Santa]

I've worked with my fair share of windowing APIs and QT's OO approach to the problem is very well done. On the one extreme we have the heavy MFC which has grown out of control into a mammoth mess. wxwindows, pretty much a clone of MFC, shares the same issues as MFC. WTL seems hopeful, if only anyone was using it and it had any sort of support.

The Win32 and Gnome APIs are written in C, so though they are fast, they doesn't get any of the programming benefits of Object Orientation.

Thought it has a funny macro kludges in certain places, the QT API is absolutely a joy to work with.

Re:How is this going to work for trolltech?

[Blob Pet]

The company I work for has over a dozen enterprise-level licenses. We do it solely for the support. For us, it's essentially the same as using GPL code and contracting a 3rd company for fulltime support. Also, if Trolltech ever bit the dust, we've got the source code.

vote!

[gnarlin]

It get my vote for "most disturbing dance video ever".

Re:Sure, why not

[Anonymous Coward]

Trolltech sounds so...dubious. I mean, when I think of Trolltech, I think of spyware.

They're from Norway, dude. Anything with 'Troll' in it is popular there. They even named one of their biggest oil-fields "Troll".

So since Norwegians like trolls, obviously they don't call annoying people on the internet 'trolls'. They usually call them 'americans'.

Both the founders are married and have great wives

[Prien715]

From here:

Haavard Nord, Trolltech's CEO, and Eirik Eng, Trolltech's President, had been working together with various cross-platform GUI tools back in 1991. We were both very disappointed in their quality and were sure we could do it much better. Haavard went on to write his Masters thesis on GUI design, while I wrote a C++ GUI toolkit for a Norwegian company. In 1993 he called me up and suggested that we should join forces and use our experience in GUI design to write the toolkit that would be the king of toolkits. We had no customers, no funding and a lot of enthusiasm. Luckily we were both married to wives who had full-time jobs. We used some savings to rent a small office and hacked away for a year while our wives fed and cared for us.

Personally, I find the entire thing rather neat and almost romantic. If you told your spouse/sig. other "I'm gonna go work on something and make absolutely no money for a year and you're going to support me...do you mind?" (s)he'd probably say something along the lines of "hell no" or go packing. The company name comes from a dream one of the cofounders had about their wife as well.

I dunno. I don't see that many couples that're close or stable enough to do that.

There's more important things "chicks" can have than a "hot" body. Like...helping you realize your dreams?

Re:Nice icons, too!

[Ethelred Unraed]

Oh please. My ego is not as large as you think. It only occupies 85% of the known Universe (scientists keep calling it "dark matter" and "dark energy" to annoy me).

Cheers,

Ethelred