Talk:Qt (software)

message: The article states "Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism)", however, this seems incorrect, Qt is never supposed to be an initialism, that is considered a typo. -- 187.39.28.74 (talk) 04:41, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Initialism

message: Why is there no criticism section?  Surely not everyone believes that Qt is perfect when it is in fact simply the least worst option available at the moment.
--79.64.102.83 (talk) 17:26, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: "Why is there no criticism section?"  Because nobody's added one.  If you can find reliably sourced criticism, feel free to add a Criticism section. Guy Harris (talk) 17:50, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: Trolltech insiders pronounce Qt as "cute"[citation needed]
I don't know how to 'cite' this, but it is called that in their developer videos and anyone who has attended a QuickStart or Developer Day. I've witnessed it used in all three personally myself.
71.179.4.155 02:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. It is now "Qt", also I fixed the spelling of Trolltech, thanks. -- mkrohn 23:40 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)
-Generally QT refers to QuickTime (Apple, Inc), so Qt is used to avoid confusion 71.179.4.155 02:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

text: correct, I have added this to the Harmony project page. -- mkrohn 23:40 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)
I'm not sure this belongs in Category:X Windows Systems; it's really a portable toolkit. DJ Clayworth 14:57, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

text: I'm thinking from the viewpoint of the category, not of the article. It's a major toolkit used on X - David Gerard 15:08, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: "Cute"

message: Is this an Integrated Development Environment?--Jondel 02:42, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: IDE ?

message: Qt toolkit → Qt – {Qt is known as Qt, not "Qt toolkit". QuickTime is QT, not Qt. So there is no confusion.} — minghong 10:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation and sign your vote with ~~~~
* Oppose-- PBS 11:37, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: *Qt (disambiguation) → QT
*Qt toolkit → Qt (toolkit)
*Qt becomes a redirect to QT
violet/riga (t) 17:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative proposed move

message: The alternative proposal has been accepted and implemented. violet/riga (t) 17:51, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: I submitted X Window core protocol for peer review, as I intend to candidate it for featured status. I would appreciate comments (Peer review page). - Liberatore(T) 18:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer review of a related article 

message: The article mentioned that there are bindings for C, but where can these be found? I searched the web and did not come up with 
anything that seemed solid and well supported. Any ideas would be helpful. Perhaps it would even be possible to link directly from the article to bindings for the different languages?  Filur 12:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bindings for C 

message: I think the paragraph starting
The use of an additional tool has been criticised by part of the C++ community...
Needs some sort of citation or justification. The phrase " 'moc'-ery of c++ " is clearly a value judgement (besides being essentially meaningless) and should surely be attributed to someone if indeed someone has ever said that.
Furthermore, the "C++ community" is a very vague term, since it is not clear who is included in this. Exactly who has made these critisms of Qt should be referenced.
83.245.83.98 20:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed to say moc is critised by "C++ community" 

message: Alternative toolkits such as GTK+ are available under a more permissive free software/open source license, at the expense of less complete support for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
I started to reword this sentence and add it to the preceding paragraph since 1) is skirts around the fact that Qt is not LGPL and has no GPL exception, 2) mentioning GTK+ doesn't make it any clearer, and 3) the rest is not relevant.  By the time I was done I had removed it and rewritten the preceding paragraph.  
I'm not sure if the rewritten paragraph even belongs, though.  I think it could be just as easily removed, yet I expect that some will want mention of the "...commercial development requires the commercial license" bit.  I understand that it first appears shockingly in violation of the GPL, but think of the same statement with commercial replaced with proprietary.
Trolltech maintains that proprietary development requires the commercial license.
Anyway, let me know if the changes bother anyone.--Hamitr 21:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative toolkits such as GTK+ are available... 

message: What if a proprietary application uses Qt, not by linking to it but using some other way of interprocess communication? It’s completely legal for Firefox to connect to an IIS-powered server, as well as for Outlook to send mail via an Exim server, so it seems to be possible to split an application into a proprietary back-end and a open source Qt-based front-end without violating the GPL. One might declare the front-end is compatible with any back-end that conforms to a certain protocol; and it isn’t the developer’s trouble that the only application implementing the protocol is their own proprietary program. This also has the advantage of having the community improve the front-end module.
Any comments? Roman V. Odaisky 18:28, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proprietary software with GPL version of Qt 

message: Is the resemblance of the Qt logo to a hammer and sickle on purpose, or has someone from Trolltech confirmed it as an accident? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 03:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That resemblance seems very weak to me, even after getting the two logoes side-by-side. In any case, the QT logo is a rather obvious way write together a Q and a T, like the æ, which is a contraction of a and e. So I think we can rule out any connection to any (defunct) regime. I also doubt that any trolltech employee would stoop to actually comment on this. Esben 10:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Consider this a comment from an employee, as far as I'm aware, it was entirely unintentional, and even unknown until I'd read this statement.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.208.214.100 (talk) 10:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Russia, logo designs YOU 

message: The open source editions of Qt 4.3.2 and above now support visual studio in as much as they officially work with the compiler, and qmake can generate visual studio projects (http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/09/18/qtwindows-open-source-edition-to-support-vs-express/) - there is however no IDE integration in the open source edition. There's no official binaries for this option though - Qt needs to be built from source.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.66.10 (talk) 00:44, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows and Open Source

message: > which was acquired by Nokia on January 28, 2008
On this date both companies announced the plans for the acquisition, but the process has just started. The Trolltech stakeholers are today as owners of the company as they were last week.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.100.124.219 (talk) 07:29, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trolltech not acquired yet by    Nokia 

message: VMware server 2.0 rc1 for management uses Java toolkit not QT.
I analyzed all binary and library in the Linux package RC2 downloaded today with 'nm', and there are no call to QT.
But there are a lot of call to GLib/Gobject library, that are also packaged toghether.
The 'vmware' executable, start a browser to 127.0.0.1:port and run the java interpreter.
To me the management console is a Java applet.
Where you "84.179.187.40" found that "# VMWare Server, a PC virtualization application, Qt frontend since version 2.0" citation? --Efa2 (talk) 23:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I removed the line. If it really was written in Qt, someone can cite it. — FatalError 00:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  VMware server 2.0 

message: The article switches back and forth between referring to Qt's authors as Trolltech and as Qt Software, as I note their own website does, as well. Is there a particular reason for this? The article's rather confusing as it stands right now. If no one objects, I'm going to add a clarification to the introductory paragraph to the effect that the company's still referred to by its old name, or else update all references to Trolltech in the body of the article to Qt Software. 142.104.60.31 (talk) 01:18, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Trolltech as an entity will exist for up to a year after purchase by nokia (to support contracts signed under the name of Trolltech AS). Internally, it is Qt Software. The article should reflect this throughout, and any mentions of "trolltech" should only be in a historical perspective. A bit of side info, this name was decided upon by a vote of the employees. Sadly, I don't have any citations on that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.208.214.100 (talk) 10:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trolltech vs. Qt Software 

message: A cursory glance reveals http groups.google.com group/comp.os.linux.announce/msg/ba2a4d4efc9fe910?dmode=source&output=gplain ... though there could be earlier ones?  64.58.22.201 (talk) 20:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earliest [[USENET]] reference? 

message: Given that Nokia has been getting more aggressive in creating bindings I think this should move from a sentence to a full list (with links) jbolden1517Talk 01:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of bindings 

message: Should the screenshot top-right now be changed to Qt Creator (the new QT IDE)? CharlesC (talk) 10:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshot 

message: At least from looking at the Qt Jambi page, it seems as if there are still new versions being released.
So that remark is wrong.
:If you spot an error in the article, feel free to fix it yourself :). Regards, decltype (talk) 18:48, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qt Jambi not stopped 

message: C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4/first edition.  (2nd last link) does not work as of 20:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non operational link 

message: I believe this is a wise move, seeing as there is too much, too long text here that can be comfortably read. As Qt becomes ever more popular, more popular are going to be created using the Qt framework. A good move would be to move the subsection of applications into a separate bulleted list. Yannis A 01:51, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For this purpose already exists Category:Software_that_uses_Qt. Neurocod (talk) 23:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: REQUEST: Moving the 'Applications' subsection to a separate list

message: An editor proposed to merge Qt Development Frameworks into this article more than a month ago, but did not seem to provide a rationale. I do not think a merge would be appropriate at this point, and will remove the tags - unless, of course, there are any objections or arguments presented in favor of merging. decltype (talk) 13:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No merge. Wrapped in Grey (talk) 08:32, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: There is incorrect link to domain http://qtgears.com/ that is for sale, please remove it asap.
--83.3.98.194 (talk) 11:23, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: REQUEST: Bad Link

message: “commonly known also as "Q.T. (KYOO-TEE)"”
Is it possible to prove that, please?
I have never seen it spelled this way, with a dot after each letter.
Spidermario (talk) 16:28, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarified. Wrapped in Grey (talk) 08:32, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Q.T.” 

message: IINM, MeeGo Touch was developed at Nokia, not Intel. Having said that, it is Open Source, so perhaps Intel also contributed in some way, or forked it or something.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidmaxwaterman (talk • contribs) 03:36, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Intel's MeeGo Touch"? 

message: Can we please get an up to date screenshot?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.198.225.24 (talk) 10:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I don't have Qt Designer but looks like the screenshot is from version 4.4.3. Article says the latest version is 4.7. Have there been a lot of changes since version 4.4.3 that can be seen in a screenshot? Fleet Command (talk) 12:26, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Screenshot 

message: According to this press release, Digia is buying part of Qt. I'm not sure who will own the Qt brand and such, and the stuff like qt.nokia.com or the Qt port of WebKit. After the Nokia+Microsoft deal, it seems things are changing a lot and Nokia will be "just" another Microsoft partner. I'm afraid about the future of Qt. As this is going to happen, someone should do a wikipedia entry for the Digia company too (wich currently provides lots of resources to Qt development but not mentioned here at all). 87.217.11.95 (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nokia Sells the Qt Licensing and Services Business to Digia 

message: "The innovation of Qt when it was first released relied on a few key concepts"
What is the expression 
"The innovation .. relied on "
to be thought to mean?
Try this for comparison:
"The election of Nixon when it first occurred relied on a few key promises."
This is a sort of passive construction nonsense characteristic of a certain kind of journalism, is it not?
In this case it relies on an ambiguity to suggest one sense of "innovation" while using the term in another sense.  Who innovated and what was their innovation?  Now it becomes a problematic assertion with regard to the facts concerning novelty and originality in a GUI Widget framework, library or architecture and needs some references to back it up given a multitude of other articles in wp.
G. Robert Shiplett 21:57, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  grammar or rhetoric? 

message: Now that Qt has a LGPL or even less restrictive license for most languages (as shown in the table Qt language bindings), why is there a commercial license and why would anybody need it? Does the product sold by Digia differ from the open source version?--Borishollas (talk) 18:49, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGPL vs commercial license 

message: Reference 70, LGPL License Option Added to Qt, is dead. The page is still alive, but the content is no longer at that location, if anywhere. 173.13.21.65 (talk) 18:40, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced it with a link to "Nokia to license Qt under LGPL". Guy Harris (talk) 19:02, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken reference 

message: I created the :Category:Software that uses Qt and :Category:Software that uses GTK+ and populated them. It would be nice to know the version. What software uses Qt3, Qt4 or Qt5. AFAIK KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma Next have been ported to Qt5 and the KDE Application will be in the future. Qt 5 was released on 19 December 2012, so I think it is lack of manpower that made KDE port so lately. What about Amarok and all the other software that uses Qt? What about proprietary software? User:ScotXWt@lk 17:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Users / Adopters 

message: I tried viewing those Pluralsight tutorials. Not only do they require sign-up to view, they have the audacity to ask for one's credit card details even to begin a free trial! Are we sure that such sites deserve to be linked to by Wikipedia?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coylabe (talk • contribs) 16:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pluralsight? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I think it should be noted on the page (somehow) that Qt Location still use the very old and completely unmaintained Geoclue API. While the old API is kept alive by some folks downstream (Jolla), the code hasn't even existed in the upstream repo for many years now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zeenix (talk • contribs) 12:19, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is that a topic for Wikipedia? Report the issue to Qt's bug tracker instead. --KAMiKAZOW (talk) 13:04, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location uses archaic geoclue 

message: There's a huge hole in the article. How does Qt work? When I build a cross-platform GUI, am I writing it in a specific existing language? Or does Qt use its own language? If it's just a widget toolkit that can be called from different languages, how do I achieve portability? Or do I need to duplicate the calls to the Qt widgets in both my android native code and my iOS native code? Or do I specify it in an XML file, that can be read by an integration module? These are all different approaches taken by different cross-platform GUI toolboxes, so they're all plausible implementations. But which one does Qt use? Or does it take a new approach? If so, what is it? From the article, I don't have a clue. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 17:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm also interested in this --151.95.20.122 (talk) 12:51, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge Hole in the Article 

message: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.2-and-windows-11
--151.95.20.122 (talk) 12:50, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  win 11 supported...