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KDE free software community pledges support for Qt
IT'S A WORRYING TIME for anyone working with Qt, the cross-platform application and user interface framework that Nokia was once upon a time so much in love with.
Nokia's shift in direction to rely on Microsoft for its mobile OS means that it will only use Qt for the Symbian OS, and the company is discontinuing further Symbian development.
So to reassure developers working with Qt, the free software community KDE has come out with a statement of intent saying it will be sticking with Qt, and that it isn't going to go away - Nokia or no Nokia.
Cornelius Schumacher said in a blog post, "We chose Qt in 1996 because it offered the best software development framework. Today, it still does."
He added, "Qt remains the strong, cross-platform foundation of everything we do. Combined with KDE technologies, we believe Qt is the compelling framework for cross-platform software development."
The KDE project had to say something like this, as it uses Qt for all of the software it creates for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
This doesn't calm worries over what Nokia dropping Qt will mean for its future. But then again, it's not like Symbian, Maemo and Meego software development has resulted in anything particularly impressive. µ
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It's good that KDE will be sticking with Qt. However, I'm really glad now that I started my development with GTK+ instead.
With Trolltech demanding rather absurd prices at the time for a license (i think it was something like $4k+ at the time) for a named developer seat. Then with Nokia basically dropping their work on it with this windows garbage here now.. Usually what this means though is that Qt has a good chance of getting stale so to speak. Like various other toolkits that work, but never get worked on, like Motif, etc.
Then again who knows for sure? Time will tell I guess.
I only just installed QT in January all 1. 7 GB of it only to have it discontinued the next month.
I believe Nokia could have made it work with Wp7