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Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Posted by timothy on from the good-news-on-a-few-fronts dept.

sobral writes "Following the announcement of the LGPL license model, since yesterday the Qt source code repositories are open to the public together with their roadmap. The contribution model is online and will enable developers from the community to submit patches through a single click process, avoiding the previous hassle of sending in signed paperwork. The code is hosted at qt.gitorious.org and an instant benefit of this launch is that Qt Software has been working together with Gitorious maintainers for the last four months to improve Gitorious and all these new features are already submitted upstream."

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  1. Re:Should be a followup, actually by NoStarchPlox · · Score: 5, Informative

    You must be a bit behind the times as Qt no longer emulates a native look-and-feel but uses the native widgets of the platform.

  2. Re:Should be a followup, actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Symbian is dead? Having 47% of smartphone sales worldwide in Q4 2008 means you're dead? Really?

  3. Re:Should be a followup, actually by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah sure...

    >> Sales of Linux netbooks collapsed.

    Proof? Sure lots of netbooks are Windows, but that doesn't mean sales of Linux models aren't increasing with the market segment.

    >> Google is providing a standardized UI on top of Linux.

    Incredibly immature project, and isn't even close to a competitor to Qt on anything but embedded.

    >> Symbian is dead.

    Well, there are millions of devices out there still with Symbian, but I agree it probably has little future.

    >> Basically, there is very little need for a specialized UI toolkit like Qt

    Qt is not a specialized UI toolkit. It is a general class library for C++ that happens to include UI classes.

    >> now that there are both fewer platforms for it to run

    Qt runs on more platforms now than ever before. I don't know what you're talking about. Symbian, WinCE, Windows 98 to 7, Linux (normal and embedded), and Mac (with Cocoa even). Name another platform that can do that.

    >> and more mature competitors on the remaining platforms.

    Like what? Each platform has their own thing, but unless you feel like implementing your interface 5 times, that's not really an option.

  4. Re:QT is used on cell phones as well by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative
    Qt was Open Source in that it was GPL, however trolltech was dual licensing it. Being GPL, it was toxic to anything but GPL programs, which meant closed source (or even non-GPL open source) would need to pay for Qt.

    Nokia relicensed Qt as LGPL which makes it usable by non-GPL programs.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  5. Re:Should be a followup, actually by garvon · · Score: 5, Informative

    qt 4.5 does have a gtk theme that uses gtk to draw the widgets. It allows me to continue using qt applications and have them match my desktop now that i no longer find kde usable as a desktop. The applications are still 1st rate.