Re: [orca-list] What is QT and why would we use it?

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Just to add that Desktops may combine these developer toolkits, and there are aps that have multiple front 
ends written 
for them. For example Unity uses QT and is built on Gnome/ships with GTK aps, (yeah, this is my rudamentary 
understanding, 
so please amplify, clarify or correct me if I'm not explaining things correctly). 
Transmission, a popular torrent program has both QT and GTK frontends available, and can also be run as a CLI 
only 
package. 
These toolkits make it easy for a programmer to include things like controls to a program. Having 
standardized developer 
kits are what make it phesible for the average programmer to make their aps accessible I would think.
 

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:06:44AM -0500, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Qt is an application development framework or toolkit. It's analogous to
> GTK+. Gnome is written with GTK+ as is some other popular desktops. KDE is a
> desktop manager written in Qt.
>
> Qt is needed if you want to run an application written with this toolkit,
> such as Virtual Box.
>
> My understanding is pretty rudimentary and I'm sure others can do a better
> job of explaining this.
>
> On 06/15/2014 10:43 AM, Glenn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I read a reference to QT when I enquired about vBox, now QT is being
> > mentioned again.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what it is, and why it is needed?
> >
> > I looked it up on the web, but did not find any real answers to my
> > questions.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Glenn
> >
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