I can't argue with your points there Sebastian, the future of Qt is uncertain right now. Nokia has already sold the commercial re-licensing business for Qt to another company. I'm not sure what will happen with the rest, it could well be forked. It's a completely Open Source project now and they relicensed after the historic problems with FSF that led to Gnome in the first place. I'm not sure the commercial licensing implications for you and it makes sense to avoid it if these are commercial apps. I'd have to look into the legal side further.<div>
<br></div><div>Speaking purely on technical merit, I've been told by many great developers that Qt 4 is a brilliant tool kit to work with. Especially cross platform. I actually agree with your political points and it's a shame this red tape gets in the way of development. Good luck!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dan<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Sebastian Arcus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shop@open-t.co.uk">shop@open-t.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks Dan. To be honest, I haven't even bothered with QT at all, for political reasons, if nothing else. It use to be with Trolltech, then with Nokia, now somewhere in the middle with no clear answer as to who is going to be behind it. Nokia is now going with WinPho as a platform - so it is even less clear how much of an interest they will have in QT. I guess they will just sell it to some other company, which might just cause a fork - and so and so on. Then it use to have the issue of non-commercial license with funny restrictions along their commercial license (I believe you couldn't build commercial apps based on the open source version - which is not a problem with GTK - don't know what the current licensing is). I prefer a project which is firmly in the hands of the community - instead of being shepherded by a commercial company or another which changes it's mind every few years in terms of what it wants to do with it.<br>
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Well, that's just my opinion anyway,<br><font color="#888888">
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On 03/10/2011 11:57 AM, Dan Lynch wrote:<br>
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Most of my desktop development on Linux has just been with pyGTK, but I<br>
can't tell you how useful that is on Windows.<br>
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I just thought I'd make a quick mention of Qt 4 as a possible<br>
alternative. It runs very well on all platforms, though I don't know if<br>
it translates to native controls. Lots of developers rave about it.<br>
Might be worth a look.<br>
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That's my 2 cents, I'll let you get back to the complicated stuff :)<br>
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Dan<br>
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