The Norway-based company Trolltech is well known for their C++ and fully OOP Toolkit, Qt. Qt is the basis of KDE, but it is also a very important and powerful tool under Windows, MacOS/X and X11 developers. Qt 3.0 released less than a month ago, bringing some really impressive features, like the ability to build platform- and database independent database applications, greatly improved internationalisation and font handling etc. Harri Porten, TrollTech employee and also a KDE developer (mostly working on the javascript part on Konqueror) answers some of our questions.
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Qt is the best toolkit out-there. Little slow on compiling and the pre-processor part sucks, but other than than....
Yeah, yeah, yeah.... that's all very interesting. But do they have to jump on the hype bandwagon and rename that guy after that mage boy hitting the movies presently?! ;D SCNR
I like that Harri Porten -- Harry Potter, a bit freaky that. Made me smile!
there must be something wrong with it for linux. on my mac os x desktop, the interface is all pretty, and on windows it's pretty. but on linux, with all the same fonts as my windows setup, qt is just damn ugly. even with -style options. don't get me wrong, i love qt. i'm developing commercial applications with it, but it's quite apparent, that come time of release, we need to write a qt style that our program defaults to, to hopefully clean up how the widgets / text look, because otherwise, it'll look extremely unprofessional -- just ugly. anyone know what i'm talking about, or know how to make it look better? regards.
I know what you are talking about when it comes to QT, it feels professional to use and its not like its lacking gloss but it just does not seem to look as nice as it should do. I am coming of the opinion that maybe there is too much gloss on the interface, maybe something a lot simpler would be better (and before anybody mentions it, I know there are simpler themes, but they dont look right) I think fonts make a big difference, although its possible to anti-alias everything now on QT it either looks to be lacking in sharpness, whereas Windows fonts for one just look great especially at 8 point.
Umm, Windows doesn't anti-alias fonts at normal sizes. Usually, you shouldn't AA good TrueType fonts except when they are scaled up or down (between 8 and 15 point usually). I'm sitting here on a KDE 2.2.1 box and aside from some glitches with AA (namely it doesn't work correctly 
this is the most amazing text rendering I've ever seen, easily equal to the FontFusion engine in QNX RtP. Get yourself a set of good fonts (from your Windows partition and XFree86 4.1, and you're on your way to font heaven!