QtCon Opens In Berlin (qtcon.org)

Long-time Slashdot reader JRiddell writes: A unique coming together of open source communities is happening in Berlin over the next week. QtCon brings together KDE, Qt, VLC and FSF-E to discuss free software, open development, community management and proprietary coding. Live streams of many of the talks are available now. The opening keynote spoke of open data and collaborative coding freeing accessibility information. 13 tracks of talks cover Community, Web, Best practices, Automotive, Mobile and Embedded, Let's talk business, Tooling, QtQuick, Multithreading, OpenGL and 3D.

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Re:No --- really --- it isn't

[QRDeNameland]

Software which I use that uses QT: 4K Video Downloader, Calibre, Google Earth, KeePass, MuseScore, PokerTH, Stellarium, Virtual Box, QBittorrent (not on list).

Software that uses QT which I don't use but I believe is pretty popular: Adobe Photoshop Album, Doxygen, Guitar Pro, last.fm, Parallels, Spotify, Wireshark. That's not counting games or dev tools.

Considering that I'd be hard-pressed to list that many useful desktop apps in, for instance, Java, I'd say it's a reasonably impressive list.

Re:No --- really --- it isn't

[Jherico]

Check out this list of mostly obscure and unknown software that uses Qt.

Most software is obscure, full-stop. Just because you don't use most (or even any) of the packages on that page doesn't mean that Qt isn't a viable mainstream library, or that there's anything wrong with it.

Qt, like any other large framework, has a learning curve. If you're writing an application that works just fine using whatever libraries you're already using and you're only targeting one OS, then you probably aren't motivated to go climb that mountain. On the other hand if you're writing software (possibly with a complex UI) that is intended to target multiple operating systems, then Qt is probably the single best framework out there for doing so. Otherwise you're in for a long haul of writing your own less functional version of some subset of Qt features in order to abstract platform specific code away from the rest of your application functionality.