The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Comments on: Nokia's Trolltech Qt Software previews cross-platform IDE

Gotta love 'Cute' 

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 22:25 GMT

Thumb Up

Of course, you could develop in a cross-platform manner before this, but this should make it easier. Hopefully Nokia's ownership will do nothing to dull Qt, only improve it and make it more mainstream (mainstream = better community, more investment by Nokia).

It would have been nice to have a longer article though, perhaps something saying 'Nokia bought Trolltech (blah blah) and it has been used by companies such as Google for-

well, you get the picture.

Greenhouse Nifty, Qt Pronounced "Cute" 

Posted Friday 31st October 2008 22:28 GMT

Just got back from Qt Developer Days. Greenhouse looked pretty cool, if a bit unstable just yet. FWIW, the trolls seem to pronounce Qt as "cute," not "Q-T." Then again, most of them pronounce Mac OS X as "Mac-O-S-Ex." Shame!

"Oh Ess Ex" 

Posted Sunday 2nd November 2008 16:00 GMT

Well, you know. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

And when we're talking about a counting system which hasn't been in live use in over a millennium and which doesn't even have a zero, and which is only used today by bloody smug showoffs and people rich enough to afford dynastic numbers, then I think it doesn't bloody matter whether people say 'Ex' or 'Ten', save possibly to identify the kind of self-satisfied twat who goes around with an apple stuck to the back of their Prius -- though why you'd want to pick out those sort, I don't know.

WxWidgets 

Posted Sunday 2nd November 2008 17:47 GMT

Better approach to cross platform, using the existing toolkit, rather than having to install a whole new one.

Re: WxWidgets 

Posted Monday 3rd November 2008 11:58 GMT

"using the existing toolkit, rather than having to install a whole new one"

Since when was wxWindows, erm, wxWidgets the toolkit of choice on Windows, Mac, GNOME or KDE? Has the "native widgets" mantra of wxWidgets now evolved into a delusion about ubiquity for want of merits over its competitors that might actually persuade people to use the software?

Don’t Miss

SunSun's surviving staff hit with 'motivation' missive

Exclusive Code: Your solace, our savior

Ubuntu teaser Ubuntu's Karmic Koala bares fangs at Windows 7

Review Shuttleworthian scrap

AppleChange your views: OS X tags exploited

Mac Secrets Apple windows insider

JavaSun preps cell-phone Java plan for netbooks

OpenWorld 09 Modules not globules