On 09/20/2013 01:58 PM, Metallicow wrote: > Sorry about that, nokia is/was. qt was developed(IIRC) for phones. > Someone made money. And a lot of it. wx is a more or less a "free" > project. I don't use a phone anymore. If I had a touch screen phone > and was a developer, I still wouldn't use one. I have my many reasons > why...
Qt was first available back in 1995 from TrollTech, Inc. Qt was always about a good cross-platform UI toolkit that made it possible to develop rich apps on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Qt was one of the very first modern GUI toolkits available on Linux. I used KDE 1.0, which was based on Qt back in 1998, long before cell phones with touch screens! In fact I owe the KDE and Qt developers a debt of gratitude because KDE 1.0 was really the first desktop that was usable to me as a Windows 95 refuge. Moved to Linux and haven't looked back. Qt only recently got touch stuff added, that make it work on phones and tablets. And the same touch stuff is going into GTK+, and I'm sure wx will get it too soon, if they want to stay relevant. And yes someone made money on Qt back in the day, as the company TrollTech developed and marketed the toolkit for many years. Back in the 90s, a dispute over the open source licensing of the Qt source code led to the creation of the Gnome project and desktop, using what became known as the Gtk+ library. Now, however, Qt is under the LGPL so it's both free and open source in every way, and we are essentially reaping the rewards of a very long and expensive development history, all for free! Whether it was generosity or desperation, it does not matter. So I'm guessing you don't use Linux either, since people including Linus Torvalds have become rich developing Linux. Most linux development and even governance is under the auspices of some for-profit companies. Yet it flourishes and has remained a free and open OS, thanks to Torvalds' foresight to choose the GPL as the license for the kernel, which evens the playing field and regulates the corporate influence. Sounds to me like you've never used Qt in any of its versions. I have used Qt, GTK+, and wx, and they are all fine toolkits. My current preference is GTK+. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
