Qt News Archives


521 Qt open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

KDAB Experimenting With Qt 3D For VR
KDAB Experimenting With Qt 3D For VR

Last year we covered some interest by Qt developers in potentially having virtual reality support for Qt 3D with OpenGL. It appears that work is getting closer to fruition.

20 May 2017 - Qt 3D VR - 15 Comments
Qt 5.9 Beta Released

The official Qt 5.9 Beta is now out thanks to The Qt Company and the Qt developer community.

7 April 2017 - Qt 5.9 - 9 Comments
Qt Wayland Is Next Appearing On Tractors & Farm Equipment

With Qt 5.8's Qt Wayland Compositor Framework taking shape, more developers are beginning to tailor a Qt Wayland compositor to their use-cases. One of those is a company specializing in farm equipment like combine harvesters, tractors, and harvesters.

22 March 2017 - Qt Wayland Farming - 9 Comments
Qt Vulkan Support Demoed On The NVIDIA Shield TV

A mix of Qt5, Vulkan, Android on AArch64, and a NVIDIA Shield TV with Tegra X1 SoC sounds like a fun weekend for those wanting to experiment with the latest Qt tool-kit possibilities in development.

24 February 2017 - Qt Vulkan On Android - Add A Comment
Qt 5.10 To Have Built-In Vulkan Support

With Qt 5.8 there was experimental Direct3D 12 support that left some disappointed the toolkit didn't opt for supporting Vulkan first as a cross-platform, high-performance graphics API. Fortunately, with Qt 5.10, there will be built-in Vulkan support.

19 February 2017 - Qt 5.10 Vulkan - 27 Comments
QtWebKit Updated With WebGL Support, MinGW On Windows

Qt WebEngine remains the primary module on modern Qt5 tool-kit versions for having web capabilities provided by Chromium. The migration from Qt WebKit to WebEngine happened around four years ago but there still are some developers pursuing out-of-tree support for Qt WebKit.

7 February 2017 - QtWebKit - Add A Comment
Qt 5.7.1 & Qt Creator 4.2 Released

The Qt Company has announced the first point release to Qt 5.7 as well as putting out the Qt Creator 4.2 upgrade to their integrated development environment.

14 December 2016 - Qt Updates - Add A Comment
Qt Creator 4.2 RC1 Released

The Qt Company today issued the first release candidate for the Qt Creator 4.2 integrated development environment release.

30 November 2016 - Qt Creator 4.2 - 5 Comments
Qt Creator Gets Excited For CMake Server-Mode

With last week's CMake 3.7 release one of the less-advertised features is the build system's server-mode functionality, which is sure to excited integrated development environments (IDEs).

15 November 2016 - CMake Server-Mode - 11 Comments
LXQt Still Working Towards Its Next Release, Not Yet Ready For Release Schedule

LXQt 0.10 was released last November and is currently the desktop environment's current latest release of this Qt-written desktop forked from LXDE. There's talk though of a new release possibly coming soon, but the project doesn't appear ready yet to commit to any release schedule or routine cadence for new versions.

4 September 2016 - LXQt Releases - 2 Comments
New Technology Preview Of QtWebKit

There's a new technology preview release of QtWebKit for those wanting to use this formerly retired WebKit-based module instead of the newer QtWebEngine that makes use of Chromium's Blink engine.

19 June 2016 - QtWebKit - Add A Comment

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