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Qt 4.8.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the how-qt-it-looks dept.

jrepin duly notes the release of Qt 4.8.0, and extracts from the announcement some of the key changes for developers: "Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA) restructures the GUI stack to enable easier porting of Qt to different windowing systems and devices. Threaded OpenGL enables us to render OpenGL from more than one thread concurrently. HTTP requests are now handled in a separate thread by default. The file system stack received some heavy lifting under the hood. The result is better I/O performance."

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  1. First post! by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Better I/O performance confirmed!

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  2. QT Creator by mutherhacker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    QT? Who cares!!! I'm peeing in my pants from the excitement about the new Qt-Creator!! :) I've never gotten excited so much about an IDE before :)

    1. Re:QT Creator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      With you on that!

      Seriously, I made a rant a while about how there is nothing comparible to visual studio on linux for quick click-n-droll UI dev.. and got properly put in my place! Qt-Creator is seriously a game changer for Linux dev.

  3. Seems like printing w/ CUPS is still not fixed... by omuls+are+tasty · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was hoping that they might finally get a fix in for this bug (and the likes thereof), which has been making printing under KDE a pain in the butt for the last couple of years (the 4th most hated KDE bug out there) - but nobody seems to care, even tho a patch is available. Nice going with that community process... sigh.

  4. C'mon everyone.. by tick-tock-atona · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do the QT 4 dance!

  5. Re:Bad for the open source community and for softw by OG · · Score: 5, Informative

    And the rest of the note says that the delta between commercial and LGPL versions is not desired on their part and they want to get the changes into the LGPL version by the next point release. Hopefully in the process they'll better streamline the process so the two versions stay in sync, but nothing seems to suggest that they're trying to deliberately differentiate the two; in fact, the post referenced says just the opposite.

  6. Re:Qt by Tanuki64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Normally I think it is good style to pronounce it the way the developers intended it to be pronounced. And this is 'cute'. However, in this case they simply were not able to make it commonly enough known. If you are in the right group, more or less only seasoned Qt developers, 'cute' is fine. Anywhere else you might get funny looks. You might even get this look under seasoned Qt developers when you say that you are a 'cute developer'. Unless of course, you are a coding girl with the appropriate looks.

    ;-)

  7. Re:Qt by nxg125 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fair enough. In that case, I say "cute" because that's the way the Qt guys have said it is pronounced.