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Qt 4.4 Released

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @08:49
from the qt-4.4-dance dept.
Trolltech have released Qt 4.4. This is a major release with many new features including WebKit, KDE's Phonon, Concurrency, Widgets on the Canvas and XQuery. This video covers what's new. Ars Technica has an in depth look while release dude Thiago has blogged with the now traditional developers' group photo.

< KDE 4.0.4 Out Now, Codenamed File-Not-Found | People Behind KDE: Jeremy Paul Whiting >

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mov?
by dmiceman on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @09:36

Releasing on Qt 4.4 is a great news. This is a great toolkit and now it become ever better.

But what the hell?! Toolkit intended to work on all current major computer platform have released with a demo video, encoded in “mov” which require proprietary and unavailable for many platforms browser plugin and player. Really, the name of toolkit is not a reason to use video format of the same name.

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Re: mov? by David Johnson on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @11:45

Re: mov? by Anon on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @12:55

Re: mov? by Lee on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @15:51

Re: mov? by Jeff Strehlow on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @19:01

Re: mov? by fhd on Thursday 08/May/2008, @03:16

Re: mov? by Jeff Strehlow on Thursday 08/May/2008, @08:49

Re: mov? by AC on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @01:24

Re: mov? by Kevin Kofler on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @17:59
Re: mov? by Greg on Friday 09/May/2008, @11:15

Re: mov? by David Johnson on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @17:48
Re: mov? by T. J. Brumfield on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @18:58

Re: mov? by JRT on Saturday 10/May/2008, @09:16

Re: mov? by Sebastian on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @01:43
Re: mov? by Hannes Hauswedell on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @02:52

Re: mov? by moltonel on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @03:15

Re: mov? by Hannes Hauswedell on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @04:02

Re: mov? by kt on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @03:24

It's fantastic!
by superfan! on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @10:04

I'm thrilled by the release!!!
Do anyboy know how much the Qt codebase grew after adding all the stuff it's been added since Qt 4.3?? Did it double??

Wonderful, Trolltech's unstoppable ;-) They're very inspiring to me!

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Re: It's fantastic! by Darwin Reynoso on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @10:15

Re: It's fantastic! by Thiago Macieira on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @10:34

Re: It's fantastic! by Leiteiro on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @11:01

Re: It's fantastic! by Raul on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @11:03

Re: It's fantastic! by Jeff Strehlow on Thursday 08/May/2008, @15:13

Re: It's fantastic! by Andreas on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @13:12
Re: It's fantastic! by Div on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @14:10

Re: It's fantastic! by Thiago Macieira on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @10:31

Re: It's fantastic! by Ian Monroe on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @12:06

Re: It's fantastic! by Kevin Kofler on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @18:07

Re: It's fantastic! by Ian Monroe on Thursday 08/May/2008, @06:51

Re: It's fantastic! by sebas on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @10:38

One important thing omitted in the list of changes
by Benoit Minisini on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @14:08

...is that Qt 4.4 draws things _faster_ than Qt 4.3.4!

I recently ported Gambas GUI component to Qt 4.3.4. On my Core Duo with Linux (Mandriva 2008.1) and a NVIDIA 8300 GS graphic card, the Gambas IDE is almost unusable. Drawing and resizing are as slow as GTK+!

Then I downloaded Qt 4.4 RC1, and compare the demos and examples: at first glance, drawing is now twice faster, maybe faster than Qt 3. But using OpenGL for drawing does not work at all.

Of course, these are completely subjective tests.

But now I am happy, I will be able to finally use Qt 4 with Gambas! :-)

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Re: One important thing omitted in the list of changes by txf on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @15:03
Re: One important thing omitted in the list of cha by Ian Monroe on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @06:52

Mozilla dudes with Qt?
by fred on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @21:14

http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/06/well-isnt-that-qt/

Interesting, if this really happens, then we will have Qt browser with Gecko engine! I still prefer KHTML though, but some sites really force me to use Firefox.

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Re: Mozilla dudes with Qt? by mimoune djouallah on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @02:01
Re: Mozilla dudes with Qt? by Yves on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @02:12
Incredible News! by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @14:28

Hip hip...
by Whoever on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @22:34

:)

Excellent! Good job, Trolltech, we are with you!

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Dashboard applets?
by Aaron on Tuesday 06/May/2008, @23:14

Maybe this is slightly off topic but does anybody know when I might expect to see the option to use mac dashboard applets in plasma. I saw it in a blog entry a couple months ago and have been waiting for it since. If I remember correctly, using them relied on some changes in Qt that weren't in qt-copy. Now that the final Qt 4.4 has been released, is that possible?

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Re: Dashboard applets? by jos poortvliet on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @02:48

digg it!
by superfan! on Wednesday 07/May/2008, @01:05

It's on digg now: http://digg.com/programming/Qt_4_4_Framework_Broadens_Rich_Application_Development
!!!

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