Qt Turns 20 Years Old, KDE Celebrates

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt Turns 20 Years Old, KDE Celebrates

Today marks twenty years since the first release of the Qt tool-kit. It's been an interesting twenty years so far going through the hands of Trolltech, Nokia, Digia, and the now spin-off The Qt Company...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Toolkit-Turns-20

[riklaunim]

And it has very good Python bindings too

[Adarion]

Yeah Qt has become a good thing in the world of freedom software. I mean, nearly every Linux system today likely contains a gtk and a Qt library set. And I must say that so far, for a user's perspective, I am kind of pleased with it. Compilation of a lot of Qt libs takes time, of course, but I even have them on a Geode LX with an 8 GB CF card. I'm using KDE daily on several machines and there is little to complain (sometimes there is, of course - but nobody showed me the flawless desktop yet).
I hope Qt will come into a calm but steady flow of waters after that bumpy ride on the ship MS(!) Nokia.

[GreatEmerald]

And it has very good Python bindings too

I wish it had good D bindings... The only ones are for Qt4 and they are abandoned as well.

[rdnetto]

I wish it had good D bindings... The only ones are for Qt4 and they are abandoned as well.

It's funny you say that - I was actually in the process of implementing signal/slot support for it about a year ago, when I had to drop it because uni got in the way. I'm due to graduate in about a month or two though, so hopefully I'll be able to resume work on it then (assuming real life doesn't get in the way). The repo is [a href="https://github.com/rdnetto/dqt"]here[/a] if you want to follow it.

Qt5 support is going to be a low priority until Qt4 is implemented though - the new stuff isn't particularly useful without the basics. (Also, I've never actually used Qt5 myself, so I'm not entirely certain which parts are the most important. I also haven't looked at the way the Qt4 function signatures are generated, so I have no idea how much effort it'll take to port to Qt5.)

[GreatEmerald]

It's funny you say that - I was actually in the process of implementing signal/slot support for it about a year ago, when I had to drop it because uni got in the way. I'm due to graduate in about a month or two though, so hopefully I'll be able to resume work on it then (assuming real life doesn't get in the way). The repo is here (https://github.com/rdnetto/dqt) if you want to follow it.

Ah, nice, good to know!