Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jan 2009 02:13 UTC, submitted by TassieDevil
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Apart from well-known editions such as the normal Ubuntu and Kubuntu, the Ubuntu project includes several other variations as well. One of those is Ubuntu Mobile, which targets Mobile Internet Devices and netbooks. While this release currently uses GNOME Mobile, Canonical's David Mandala has stated that they may look at Qt 4.5, which will be released under the LGPL, as a development environment.
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the first one
by DirtyHarry on Tue 20th Jan 2009 10:34 UTC
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This may become the first project that shifts away from GTK based technology. I suspect more will follow...

The momentum is here: the KDE 4.2 release, the Qt LGPL license...

RE: the first one
by KAMiKAZOW on Tue 20th Jan 2009 10:48 in reply to "the first one"
KAMiKAZOW Member since:
2005-07-06

This may become the first project that shifts away from GTK based technology. I suspect more will follow...

The momentum is here: the KDE 4.2 release, the Qt LGPL license...

Does Canonical have a time machine? If no, it can't be the first one.
A rather recent switch is VLC. It switched from wx Widgets (which wraps around GTK on X11 platforms) to Qt 4.

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RE[2]: the first one
by DirtyHarry on Tue 20th Jan 2009 11:10 in reply to "RE: the first one"
DirtyHarry Member since:
2006-01-31

Yep, you're right. But that's just a single application (a cool one!), and represents a complete project.

Anyhow, it is going to be interesting to watch the community react.

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RE[2]: the first one
by nbensa on Tue 20th Jan 2009 12:12 in reply to "RE: the first one"
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2005-08-29

VLC on Qt4 sucks. Oh, and I *love* (really __LOVE__) Qt. It's just that VLC on Qt4 sucks so much that I uninstalled it an switched to kaffeine/kmplayer.

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