Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Jan 2008 09:33 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world's number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business. The original press release is also available. Update: "We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these technologies under the GPL."
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RE: It's time for changing...
by BSDfan on Mon 28th Jan 2008 10:12
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RE: It's time for changing...
by mallard on Mon 28th Jan 2008 10:21
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RE[2]: It's time for changing...
by dagw on Mon 28th Jan 2008 15:46
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There was also a story here not too long ago about how Nokia wheren't entirely happy with the direction GTK 3.0 was taking. Perhaps buying Trolltech is a way for them to get complete control over their future gui toolkits and to able to offer the same development environment (more or less) on phones, internet tablets and PC desktops.
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by evangs on Mon 28th Jan 2008 17:26
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RE[2]: It's time for changing...
by bnolsen on Mon 28th Jan 2008 18:02
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Sadly true. fltk is on life support barely above abandonware levels. Currently what kills fltk as a useable toolkit is it's inability to gracefullly handle automatic relayout due to language/locale changes. Not to mention that the api in many places feels like an amateuristic hack.
It could be tempting to take the fltk code base and actually make something out of it, though.
RE: It's time for changing...
by Havin_it on Wed 30th Jan 2008 11:25
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Hopefully this will make some companies considering to use other toolkits like WxWidgets or FLTK.
God I hope WxWidgets doesn't get more widespread. Every night I pray Audacity will switch to Qt or anything else so I don't have to keep the 1.2GB free for when I need to recompile wxGTK
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Hopefully this will make some companies considering to use other toolkits like WxWidgets or FLTK.
I see big companies eat smaller ones and the future can be very bad, full of monopolistic giants everywhere with more power than governments.
Another thing is that the commercial licensing can change, being more expensive or restrictive.
I see there are hidden intentions, like making use of the WebKit port and qtopia that can start to be a serious competitor to Symbian in the future. I think GTK will have things more difficult, losing one of the potential users of the toolkit.
Edited 2008-01-28 10:07 UTC