Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th May 2006 20:53 UTC
"Qt 4.1.3 - the latest maintenance release to the Qt 4.1 series - is now available, incorporating numerous bug fixes and optimizations. Qtopia Core 4.1.3 has also been released to Qtopia Core customers. For detailed information, please consult the changes-4.1.3 file found in the package."
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RE: I'm a bit dissapointed with Qt4 maturity
by Bending Unit on Fri 19th May 2006 05:10
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This sounds likely. I tried Qt4 when it was released and had problems with tiny test apps. I think it was something about toolbars and icons. I also couldn't compile it statically with mingw.
Judging from the documentation browser it seems that it is rather slow. There was lag and slow repainting when scrolling the help docs.
I went with wxWidgets instead but that also has its problems...
RE: I'm a bit dissapointed with Qt4 maturity
by harryF on Fri 19th May 2006 09:37
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RE[2]: I'm a bit dissapointed with Qt4 maturity
by Mitarai on Fri 19th May 2006 13:03
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/25/13 0:45 UTC
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 23:59 UTC
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 22:33 UTC
Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Linked by Howard Fosdick on 05/24/13 21:41 UTC
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 14:44 UTC
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.More News »
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I'm working on a sequencer that uses Qt4 natively (at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/reshaked) .. it's a pretty large app (70k loc ) and uses most of Qt features.
I havent tested 4.1.3 yet, but as for 4.1.2 , Qt4 is a pile of bugs so far. I'm having trouble in every area and from version to version something always breaks.
Amazingly, 4.0.x version releases used to work better for me than 4.1.x.. to enumerate some bugs:
-Dialogs and windowing toplevels in modal models seem broken in any other WM than KDE's Kwin
-QWidget::scroll doesnt work anymore since 4.1.2
-Qlayout setSpacing and setMargin sometimes dont work
And many more bugs and strange behaviors that only happen in very specific situations inside my app, but not if I make testcases..
Unfortunately, thanks to Trolltech closed development model, It's very difficult to reach a developer and explain them the trouble I am having with their product, and I dont have enough money to purchase a license and commercial support. On irc or forums all I get is people saying "oh that happens to me too!".
Qt source code is (despite the api being nice and clean) not very easy to read or understand in a lot of cases.
So basically, I'm waiting until KDE4 is out, which means a lot of bugs in Qt will be fixed, as it happened early with Qt3 (which is now rock solid), or alternatively wait until i'm done with my app and go and fix the bugs myself.
In short, I dont think I can recommend Qt4 as for now, because it's has an extremely buggy development process. I also stopped upgrading versions while developing because I'm tired of having to fix new bugs that appear. The best is probably to wait a year or so until some big project like KDE4 helps Qt4 to mature.