[kde-freebsd] switching to Qt4 any time soon?

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Mon Jul 2 08:01:34 CEST 2007


On Sunday 01 July 2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Which leads me to ask about the ETA of Qt4 support (by default?) by KDE...
> It would be nicer, if Qt3 were no longer required for a well-equipped
> desktop.

This still appears to be towards the end of the year.

> Also, after installing Qt4 (for the first time), I was surprised to find
> glib among the dependencies. I thought, Qt4 is available under both GPL and
> a commercial license, which means, use of glib ought to be optional... Not
> sure, how it got there -- maybe, through one of the Xorg's components?

By default, the X11 version of Qt uses the glib event loop. This is to 
facilitate embedding GTK+ components into Qt applications.

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David Johnson <david at usermode.org>


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