Re: Free QT?

[John Benninghoff <johnb2 home com>]

Qt is freely available.  I downloaded it source and all.
It is also going to be distributed by S.u.s.e & probably Caldera.
Probably other Linux distributions as well if KDE becomes popular.

Tero Pulkkinen wrote:
> 
> > > Or you can help GTK-- out.
> > > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~p150650/gtk/gtk--.html
> 
> Joel Dillon <emily@cornholio.new.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> >   Seen it - it has some interesting ideas that could be used to make
> > free QT more efficient. But I think a free QT would  be better for porting
> > KDE apps and making KDE itself more acceptable to the rest of us; there
> > are 500,000 lines of KDE code and it'd be a darn shame if it didn't get
> > on the really big Linux distributions (preferably alongside/integrated
> > with Gnome) because of the license problems.
> 
> Hmm, maybe we should start qttogtk porting library project.
> 
> I've thought about it alittle. That kind of project is also good for
> making gtk-- better. (of course gtk-- and "freeqt" need to be separate)
> 
> A library that helps people port qt apps to gtk(--) needs the following parts:
> * signal-slot system (exists already in gtk--)
> * moc -replacement to convert Qt's signal-slot format to gtk--'s syntax for
>   same thing (I expect this to be very easy to do - I volunteer for doing this)
> * wrapper that implements interface specified in Qt's documentation and
>   which uses gtk--'s widgets/signal system to implement the functionality.
>   (I expect this to be very thin wrapper, as gtk-- already implements very
>   similar interface - much like what gtk-- is currently compared to gtk).
> 
> Since there seems to be interest in creating one, I'll make a web page
> for it soon to organize things aliitle. watch for url
> www.iki.fi/terop/freeqt/index.html (Is there somewhere else such
> projects already? url?) Mail me any suggestions and I'll
> put them to the web page.
> 
> So, need volunteers for the following things:
> * setting up mailing list (we need this quickly, I expect freeqt mails in
>   gnome/gtk-list/kde lists be annoyance to people who read those lists
>   => do not followup to this message, instead mail me about your opinion until
>   we get someone set up mailing list)
> * start implementing classes starting from the base classes (learn to use
>   gtk--'s signal system before doing this - I'll help if you get problems
>   with this)
> 
> Ok, now its only about if people want free qt enough to actually do it.
> 
> --
> -- Tero Pulkkinen -- terop@modeemi.cs.tut.fi --