Trolltech Releases Qt/Mac Free Edition 49
Hank Scorpio writes "Trolltech previously announced the upcoming release of Qt/Mac Free Edition. Well, now it is available for download. Grab your copy now while it's hot! (I've already downloaded mine, so let the slashdotting commence!) Now you can run a Mac-native version of Konqueror alongside Safari!"
Anybody have a binary? (Score:4, Interesting)
Does anybody have a precompiled binary of Konq available for download? I'd be interested to see how it compares to Safari.
By the way, are there any Konq users out there who could comment on the effect of Apple working on KHTML and KJS has had on their browser over the last 6 months or so? Has Apple contributed big improvements, or has it been more incremental?
Re:Anybody have a binary? (Score:1, Informative)
By the way, are there any Konq users out there who could comment on the effect of Apple working on KHTML and KJS has had on their browser over the last 6 months or so? Has Apple contributed big improvements, or has it been more incremental?
Well, Konqueror has been improving rapidly, but then it's always improved rapidly. The developers seem v
Re:Anybody have a binary? (Score:1)
why? why do you need qt/X? i was under the impression that with this, you can substitute qt/mac for qt/x and have native widget thingamabobs.
Re:Anybody have a binary? (Score:5, Informative)
You are misinformed. This [befunk.com] makes it quite clear, I think, that X11 is not needed for running KDE applications - notably Konqueror. Yes, it's quite OK to make "ooooh" noises at the eye candy.
iqu
Re:Anybody have a binary? (Score:3, Informative)
If that's what it is, I wouldn't say I'm _that_ wrong -- the only app in that package is a non-standard Konqueror, and there certainly are X dependencies elsewhere in KDE. But maybe this will be the catalyst to get more non-X development going.
But how to build one yourself? (Score:1)
Did anyone have success yet in compiling KDE stuff using Qt/Mac? And if so, can you give some directions on how to do it?
Re:But how to build one yourself? (Score:3, Interesting)
Any help from anyone will be much appreciated!
iqu
Re:At last! (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, with this topic, shouldn't anyone who's moderated 'Troll' be on topic?
Re:At last! (Score:3, Funny)
If you're having trouble with the FTP on Safari... (Score:1, Informative)
Finally! (Score:1)
Had loads of plans for my native mac build of Qt
But it actually came too soon - still don't have a mac to use it on.
Cool, now what? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cool, now what? (Score:5, Informative)
Basically, this means that any GPL (or GPL compatible) KDE app can now be compiled for MacOS X and use native widgets. When Apple decided to use KHTML and KJS to build Safari, they develped their own adapter library called kwq (pronoucned "quack") to stand in for Qt so they wouldn't have to license the commertial version of Qt.
So now something like KOffice should be able to be recompiled into a "native" MacOS X application. No more need to run X11.
Re:Cool, now what? (Score:1)
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I still like having my X session next to my quartz. its nice to be able to export back to my mac.
the other apps too... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:the other apps too... (Score:2)
. .
dyld:
make[4]: *** [listboxeditor.h] Trace/BPT trap
make[3]: *** [sub-designer] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-designer] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-tools] Error 2
make: *** [init] Error 2
farmhouse%
And I wasn't 100% confident about getting arts, kdelibs, kdebase and koffice to all compile cleanly against qt-mac. But I'll probably go back to if after more people who know what they're doing h
Re:the other apps too... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:the other apps too... (Score:2, Interesting)
KDevelop for OS X? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:KDevelop for OS X? (Score:1)
Re:KDevelop for OS X? (Score:2)
Now, what was your address again?
Re:KDevelop for OS X? (Score:3, Informative)
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Amazing but true. SCO once owned Trolltech (Score:3, Interesting)
I hate to bring this up with trolltech doing such a public service. I suspect they must not fit the canopy group mold. But their technology is at such a base and hard to replace level one should be aware of who might own it.
The canopy group by the way has already sued MS and won and another company McBride used to work for and won. they know how to use their IP... as a war club.
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What's the link? (Score:4, Insightful)
SCO is suing IBM over the Linux kernel.
Qt != kernel. They are in no way related.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:What's the link? (Score:2)
HOW does Trolltech make money? (Score:2)
but this raises a point that I've seen varied opinions on. Does linking against a GPL lib make your product GPL'd? Some say yes some say no. which is it?
After all you can system call to a GPL program without GPL'ing your own. SO its not quite clear where the line is
anyhow if one can call trolleck libs without GPLing your source w
Re:Who wants to get sued? (Score:1)
No worries here.
Kant wait for Konsole (Score:4, Interesting)
It is _way_ better than terminal.app. Once you get used to 5-10 terminal sessions with buttons on the bottom of one window to access them all it's hard to go back.
Does this mean that KDE in general could run on Mac? ie.: replace the 'bouncy bar' with the KDE window manager, multiple screens, etc. Or is that a window manager/X-windows thing that won't work on top of quartz?
iTerm? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Kant wait for Konsole (Score:4, Informative)
Does this mean that KDE in general could run on Mac? ie.: replace the 'bouncy bar' with the KDE window manager, multiple screens, etc. Or is that a window manager/X-windows thing that won't work on top of quartz?
I'm nearly certain you can run KDE on a Mac with fink and X11 (I am certain that you can run Gnome on a Mac this way, having done so myself). You can use KDE apps on a Mac in X11 rootless if you install KDE via fink. But I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to run Aqua apps from a KDE desktop, only from an Aqua desktop (regardless of whether or not X11 is running in rootless mode with KDE apps).
Be warned (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:mac problem (Score:1)
you have been trolled (Score:1, Informative)
Re:you have been trolled (Score:1)
/. power! (Score:2, Funny)
bastard, just because you can control when slashdotting begins, doesn't mean you have to brag about it.