I am just posting the link of Artur who work in INDT. They are working with us on animated layouts using Qt Kinetic.
PS : Oops, i forgot to say that it works on Windows too.
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Nice !
That windows thing is funny, but apart from the Wintrolls saying “OMG Support WINDouWs !!11″ is a serious matter.
With Nokia acquisition of Trolltech the things become far more liberal. And what thrill the developers planning to use the Qt is that the Developers dont Use Windows they selfs.
Or they Love Linux(look at this blog) or they love Mac(look at Qtcreator, that everything serves better the Mac, Snapshots, videos, stuff).
Windows are not loved !
See the fact that they do everything to test Qt with KDE beta, Where´s they don´t ever play with the Windows 7, where some Qt API is not working/not doing nice.
The main appeal of Qt is the Multiplatafform support. When nokia , in the future , decides to turn Qt into a Derelictware/Abandonware , have sure that who will economic afford Qt development, will be Windows / Multiplatafform( Win, Mac, Lin) company’s. Not KDE hippies, or MacOS street artists.
WaxDragon, Good post.
The Windows support is really not a priority.Just look at Gcc support, in the windows stopped with 3.4.5 version.
I have sure , in the next months, Thiago will post in the blog:
“Qt Software to discontinue Qt Windows after 4.6 release ”
I propose a change,the Qt developers should not be called “trolls”, a “Stallman´s” should fit better !
My main development platform is windows, but I dont share impression that the windows platforms are “not a priority”. To me it seems totally clear that you develop and test new releases on one platform first, before applying to and testing with the next – developing and testing on all platforms in parallel you would not get anywhere. Betas, RCs and final releases yet always got published for all desktop operating systems at same time.
I use Qt on all 3 platforms and have never seen anything less than full support for all 3 platforms. True there is a lot of test and development that is done on the *nix platforms but testing and alphas != to support.
Nokia makes business. Giving up Windows would be absolutly no sense for them, and for anybody in the software world.
Moreover, development tools under Windows can’t be beaten, and for this reason, I would be surprised if Qt was not mainly developed there.
I even think it’s good they love Mac and KDE, because since I am confident they will always support Windows, Qt will really remain XPlatform.
We have developers on all our main platforms. I myself work on Windows and take great pride in making Qt work as well as possible on Windows. Please stop spamming the blog with this stuff, I promise that you have nothing to be concerned about.
I work on software which is required to be supported on all main platforms, including Windows. Major of our clients use windows and I personally do not care whether the operating syste is, only thing that matters is that we can deliver quality software and that the tools and building blocks we use will support us reaching the goal. One has to be one eyed ignorant to say that a certain platform doesn’t matter, it matters if there exists vast amount of users for that platform. On the basis of personal experience I can say that usually a library or a software component that has been developed targeting wide range of platforms, seems to reach higher quality and stability than one platform wonders. QT is a great example, it must be one of the greatest pieces of software ever made, versatile and very, very well documented!
@MikeDVB: It’s not Qt’s fault, nor Nokia’s fault, that the MinGW maintainers haven’t released an up-to-date compiler in years. Qt will happily work with the newer versions if you go and get the unofficial release, and it works even better if you use the Microsoft compiler. (Say what you will about Microsoft, but it should come as no surprise that their compiler is the best choice for their operating system. Even better, it’s a no-cost download now.) This is in no way an indication that Windows support is not a priority for Nokia. Not a priority for GNU, you may be right, but Qt isn’t a GNU project.
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