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Mustache Villain
October 25th, 2010, 06:18 PM
by Thom Holwerda (http://www.osnews.com/editor/11)

This is kind of... Well, good news, I suppose? It depends on where you allegiances lie, but it seems like Ubuntu is warming up to the idea of using Qt to develop applications. It's no secret that Qt is a far more advanced development framework than Gtk+, so it only makes sense for Ubuntu - a GNOME/Gtk+ distribution - is looking at it (http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/10/20/ubuntu-and-qt/).

The news comes from Matt Zimmerman, who writes about Qt on his blog. Speaking of keeping an open mind, he considers the possibility of using Qt on Ubuntu. "It is in this spirit that I have been thinking about Qt recently. We want to make it fast, easy and painless to develop applications for Ubuntu, and Qt is an option worth exploring for application developers," he writes, "In thinking about this, I've realized that there is quite a bit of commonality between the strengths of Qt and some of the new directions in Ubuntu."

The reasons for this new insight shouldn't come as a surprise. Ubuntu is moving into mobile, and Qt has a long history there. Qt is very cross-platform, also very important to Ubuntu. Last, but not least, Qt has a pretty decent touch input framework, which, in this day and age, is a must.

"I think Qt has a lot to offer people who want to develop applications for (and on) Ubuntu, particularly now. It already powers popular cross-platform applications like VLC, not to mention the entire Kubuntu distribution," he concludes, "It has strong commercial backing as well as a large developer community. No single solution will meet all developers' needs, of course, and Ubuntu supports multiple toolkits and frameworks for this reason, but Qt seems like a great tool to have in our toolbox for the road ahead."

Maybe this will mean Canonical will devote some time and money to the KDE project as well, which should eventually pay out for Kubuntu as well. Seems like good news all-around to me.

Source (http://http://www.osnews.com/story/23918/Ubuntu_s_Zimmerman_Qt_Has_a_Lot_to_Offer_Ubuntu)

Spice Weasel
October 25th, 2010, 06:19 PM
Remember people, before jumping to conclusions:

Qt != KDE.

Only a small percentage of Qt applications have KDE dependancies.

Canis familiaris
October 25th, 2010, 06:21 PM
Qt is good.
One thing I want with Qt is to get rid of those underlines for keyboard accelerators. The accelerators should be shown only if you press the Alt key like in GTK apps. It looks damn ugly to see those underlines all the time. :|

NightwishFan
October 25th, 2010, 06:42 PM
QT is more than just a widget toolkit though. I have nothing against it. Several applications I use on gnome use QT, just like some use python, vala, perl etc. No big deal at all.

Half-Left
October 25th, 2010, 06:50 PM
I cannot wait for the day when people stop calling it QT. :P

JohnAStebbins
October 25th, 2010, 07:23 PM
It's no secret that Qt is a far more advanced development framework than Gtk+
Funny, it seems I've seen this exact statement made word for word in several places recently. Smells like astroturfing to me. Not that I have anything against Qt. Don't use it myself so it would be unfair for me to judge.

GeneralZod
October 25th, 2010, 07:27 PM
Funny, it seems I've seen this exact statement made word for word in several places recently. Smells like astroturfing to me. Not that I have anything against Qt. Don't use it myself so it would be unfair for me to judge.

As far as I can tell from a quick Google, they all seem to be direct quotes of the original osnews article.

koenn
October 25th, 2010, 07:42 PM
As far as I can tell from a quick Google, they all seem to be direct quotes of the original osnews article.

"it is no secret that" are weasel words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word), and
the "original" OSnews article is actually just a collection of direct and indirect quotes from Zimmerman's blog.

This is the original:
http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/10/20/ubuntu-and-qt/


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@OP : your 'Source' link is broken

Mustache Villain
October 26th, 2010, 07:19 AM
Funny, it seems I've seen this exact statement made word for word in several places recently. Smells like astroturfing to me. Not that I have anything against Qt. Don't use it myself so it would be unfair for me to judge.

Herp, derp, seems like Ars Technica is also astroturfing:

How Qt could bring better third-party software to Ubuntu (http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/canonical-cto-contemplates-qt-we-think-it-has-a-lot-to-offer-ubuntu.ars)

Ahava591
October 26th, 2010, 07:58 AM
"Astroturfing," or not, Qt does in fact have a lot to offer Ubuntu.