http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25779/First_look_Qt_5/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25779/First_look_Qt_5/ "The Qt development toolkit is undergoing a major overhaul. The developers behind the project announced the availability of the Qt 5 alpha release this week. It's a key milestone on the path to the official launch of Qt 5, expected to occur later this year." The kind of stuff to read Ars for. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:03:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25434/Qt_4_8_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25434/Qt_4_8_0_Released/ "Qt has reached another important evolutionary milestone today. We are very proud to announce that Qt 4.8.0 has now been released. Many people have worked long and hard to deliver Qt 4.8.0. Today that hard work reaches final release maturity, and we are celebrating! Featuring Qt Platform Abstraction, threaded OpenGL support, multithreaded HTTP and optimized file system access, Qt 4.8.0 can be downloaded as binary or source packages." Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:47:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25258/Qt_Development_Now_a_True_Open_Source_Project/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25258/Qt_Development_Now_a_True_Open_Source_Project/ "I'm happy to announce that the Qt Project officially went live today. Starting today, development of Qt will be governed as a true open source project. We now have qt-project.org - a website where all development of Qt will be centered, providing the same infrastructure and processes for everybody that wants to contribute to Qt." Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:46:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Qt 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News jello http://www.osnews.com/story/25181/Qt_4_7_3_Released_for_OS_2_eComStation/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25181/Qt_4_7_3_Released_for_OS_2_eComStation/ The QT framework has become the a popular route to port several open source applications to OS/2 and eComStation. Version 4.7.3 has been ported to this platform and it is available for download; the improvement list is also available. The QT Creator IDE has also been ported. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:08:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Qt 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News martini http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24713/Nokia_Announces_Qt_5_Plans/ Since Nokia announced its switch to Windows Phone 7, people have been worried about the future of Qt. Well, it turns out Nokia is still going full steam ahead with Qt, since it has just announced the plans for Qt 5. Some major changes are afoot code and functionality-wise, but the biggest change is that Qt 5 will be developed out in the open from day one (unlike Qt 4). There will be no distinction between a Nokia developer or third party developer. Mon, 09 May 2011 21:14:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News Elv13 http://www.osnews.com/story/24530/Don_t_Write_Off_Nokia_and_Qt_Yet/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24530/Don_t_Write_Off_Nokia_and_Qt_Yet/ When Microsoft and Nokia announced Nokia's move to Windows Phone 7, most people assumed the worst for Nokia's stewardship of the open source Qt, and indeed the company quickly sold its Qt licensing interests to Digia. But it looks like the company still has plans for Qt - and for the Symbian OS. Aaron Seigo, a Qt hacker employed by Nokia, told blogger Brian Proffitt that "Nokia is predicting over 150 million Symbian devices still to come" and "I think they've underestimated the longevity of Symbian". Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:31:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Qt 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News Amy Bennett http://www.osnews.com/story/24496/Nokia_Sells_Qt_Licensing_Services_Business_to_Digia/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24496/Nokia_Sells_Qt_Licensing_Services_Business_to_Digia/ Since the web has a tendency to overstate things: no, Nokia is not selling Qt. Today, Nokia announced that Digia will acquire the Qt Commercial software licensing and professional services business from Nokia. So I repeat: Nokia is not selling Qt. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:50:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News Geoff Floding http://www.osnews.com/story/24452/Qt_Implementation_for_Android_Introduced/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24452/Qt_Implementation_for_Android_Introduced/ A first alpha version of a Qt implementation for the Android mobile operating system has been announced by Romanian software developer Bogdan Vatra. Since Nokia in co-operation with Microsoft have announced that it does not intend to develop a Windows Phone variant of the GUI framework, Qt for Android represents the only remaining route/platfrom to providing mobile phone apps developed using Qt. Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:37:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Qt 95 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/24410/Nokia_New_Strategic_Direction_What_is_the_Future_for_Qt_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24410/Nokia_New_Strategic_Direction_What_is_the_Future_for_Qt_/ With the news that Nokia is choosing Windows Phone 7 as its main smart phone platform, there has been some doubts concerning its commitment towards Qt and Meego. On the QT blog, Nokia's Director of Qt ecosystem discusses its future. Nokia re-affirms it's committed to Qt, and also says it will be launching a Meego device later this year. Nokia after all is not the only company with an interest in this platform and tablets from other companies like Fujitsu is already starting to emerge. Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:59:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Qt 27 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/23948/Qt_Is_Going_Modular/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23948/Qt_Is_Going_Modular/ Recently a project called 'Qt Modularization' was initiated. This is a project that aims to modularize Qt at every level. As you may know already, Qt is currently modularized on the DLL level; each module has its own DLL. However, the project as a whole is still monolithic; all the code is hosted in a single repository, you cannot build a leaf module without building the modules on which it depends. This project aims to change that, so that the modules are hosted in different repositories, with separate maintainers, and modules may have different release schedules. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:20:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/23929/Nokia_Focusses_Fully_on_Qt_for_Both_Symbian_and_MeeGo/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23929/Nokia_Focusses_Fully_on_Qt_for_Both_Symbian_and_MeeGo/ It's a rather unclear time over at Nokia in Espoo (Finland!), with people coming and going, and changes in development strategy. The latest one is, I think, a good one: Nokia has stated it will commit fully to Qt as the sole application development framework for both Symbian and MeeGo. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:52:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 65 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23828/Qt_4_7_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23828/Qt_4_7_0_Released/ After many months of designing, coding, reviewing, testing and documenting, Qt 4.7.0 is finally ready for the big time. Although it's a little more than nine months since Qt's last feature release (4.6.0 on December 1, 2009), the seeds of some of the new stuff in 4.7 were sown much earlier. Indeed, many of the ideas behind the biggest new feature in Qt 4.7.0, Qt Quick, were born more than two years ago, not long after Qt 4.4 was released Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:32:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 91 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/23821/Qt_Being_Ported_to_Wayland/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23821/Qt_Being_Ported_to_Wayland/ Jesse Barnes has posted a screenshot showing two clocks implemented in Qt, drawn natively in Wayland, the next-generation display server. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:13:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/23654/Nokia_s_App_Development_Strategy_Qt_Qt_Qt/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23654/Nokia_s_App_Development_Strategy_Qt_Qt_Qt/ Been wondering about Nokia's strategy for conquering the rapidly expanding app space? Great! So were we, which is why we joined up with a recent dev event carried out by the Finnish company for an update on how and where things are going. It's a familiar narrative by this point: Qt is all set to become the way that Nokia-friendly apps are made -- whether it be for Symbian smartphones or MeeGo-powered mobile computers, coffee machines or infotainment consoles Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Qt 59 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23217/Nokia_Qt_SDK_Beta_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23217/Nokia_Qt_SDK_Beta_Released/ Piggybacking on the N8 launch, Nokia provided the first public release of the Nokia Qt SDK (beta). In essence, this product is the Qt Creator 2.0 (with the usual support for desktop development), enhanced with features necessary for Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo development: easy hardware debugging, as well as a simulator that mocks screen size and various hardware events like location changes. Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:36:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Qt 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/59 News vivainio