"A few months ago, the GNOME Mobile Platform was announced to the public. One of the main forces behind the launch of this initiative was Nokia, which uses a lot of GNOME-components in its Linux-based Internet Tablets Nokia 770 and N800. During this years GUADEC Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to sit down with Carlos Guerreiro, Nokias Manager for Open Source Software, to talk - amidst other things - about the not so different needs of personal computers and mobile devices, about the necessity for GTK+ 3.0 and the impact of the iPhone launch."
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Member since:2006-08-29
Actually Google Earth for Linux uses it's own bundled version of Wine. So no 'native' toolkit at all.
Opera use QT but *seem* to have written their own GU abstraction toolkit (or atleast skinning engine) for in webpage form elements since these, as is the rest of Opera, are skinnable. Opera's dialog's, when skinned, do not match the main menu style (which looks 'native' QT).
All in all, the situation regarding GUI toolkits on Free Desktop's is a community dividing one. People (in my experience) don't tend to use QT apps under Gnome or GTK+ apps under KDE. It just feels wrong somehow, and both toolkits and their respective DE's have their own philosophies.
Btw, those wanting homogenous GTK+ and QT themes might want to look at "QtCurve".
Member since:2005-09-21
Google Earth uses Qt 3. A quick google search will reveal that. Or just check at the libs it loads
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188273&cid=15519884
You may be thinking of Picasa, which uses Wine to run on Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/26/0310229
Yup, last I heard most of their UI is their own toolkit. Some things like menus and printing support uses Qt.
More or less. I try to stay away from GTK apps on my KDE desktop, just because I don't know any of them that don't have a Qt based counterpart, and running just one toolkit saves resources. Would be nice of course if that situation didn't exist, but there isn't anything that can be done about the situation.
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2005-09-21
On the other hand, Opera, Google (Earth), Skype, and VirtualBox chose Qt.. I don't think there is overwhelming evidence that commercial developers prefer one or the other.