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Qt Gets Cuter: 4.6 Brings Expanded Platform Support

Maemo gets official Qt support..."The Qt toolkit got a big update on Tuesday, with improved cross-platform compatibility. Qt 4.6 introduces official support for Nokia's Linux-based Maemo platform and the Symbian S60 operating system.
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Developer Days 2009: Qt Grows

A report from this year's European Qt Developer Days...
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PySide - LGPL Python Bindings for Qt

Qt for Python programmers..."PySide, a new API for Python programmers who want to use Nokia's Qt framework, has been released. PySide is LGPL licensed and Nokia funded. The developers hope that this first public version of the PySide library, while it is still a work in progress, will become a new standard for developing Python/Qt applications.... [more]
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Qt Software Changes Name Again

Repositioning Qt inside Nokia...
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Maemo To Switch To Qt

No big surprises here..."As some had already anticipated when Nokia acquired Trolltech, the next version of the Maemo platform will have its application framework based on Qt instead of Gtk+. This news was announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. While the switch to Qt may seem a major defeat for the GNOME community, this isn't exactly true, as many of the underlying technologies will still be GNOME-centric.
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Mono and Qt

Interoperabilty applies to libraries, too..."The KDE folks have created some brilliant bindings for Mono and .NET called Qyoto."But there is nothing like a polished application to really test the bindings. This week Eric Butler announced Synapse: an advanced Instant Messaging platform.
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Qt Gets the Nokia Treatment

Further analysis of this week's release of Qt 4.5..."Nokia might be best known as a global mobile phone giant, but it's also making waves in the open source software business, too."The company's Qt Software division this week released the latest edition of its open source application framework, Qt version 4.5, with improvements that will expand cross-platform capabilities and increase performance.

Qt 4.5, Qt Creator Released

A new version of Qt hits the Web today..."Nokia announced today the availability of version 4.5 of the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. It also introduced Qt Creator, a new lightweight cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator combined comprises the Qt SDK, an easy to install package that will let application developers to create applications quickly and easily.
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Fun and Games with the GPL

An analysis of the Qt move to the GPL... "Nokia announced last week that as of version 4.5, the Qt GUI toolkit, most famously used as the basis of the KDE desktop, would change licences from the GPL to the LGPL. "Believe it or not, that one little letter could boost Qt's popularity significantly, potentially at the expense of the GNOME desktop and its GTK toolkit." [Read more at Australian PC Authority]... [more]
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Not Linux' Quietest Couple of Weeks

Well, I'd have to say that for January, these past few days have certainly been chock full o' Linux news. And not just any news: a big Linux conference, a significant licensing shift for a big-name Linux library, layoffs in Redmond, and--perhaps most earth-shattering of all--Bdale Garbee got his beard shaved off for charity.