Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended [LWN.net]

Qt Software has announced that Qtopia, a platform for creating user interfaces and applications for advanced consumer electronics based on Linux, has been renamed and launched as Qt Extended 4.4. ""Qt Extended is designed to accelerate software development for a wide range of consumer devices, such as video IP phones, media players and other advanced devices," said Sebastian Nystrom, Vice President of Qt Software, Nokia. "With the new release of Qt Extended, we are making it easier to differentiate the user experience and the feature set.""

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Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Sep 30, 2008 19:43 UTC (Tue) by kev009 (subscriber, #43906) [Link]

Nokia bought Trolltech.

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Sep 30, 2008 20:00 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

...and now calls it "Qt Software". So what was Trolltech is now a division inside Nokia called Qt Software.

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Oct 1, 2008 16:25 UTC (Wed) by afalko (subscriber, #37028) [Link]

It think Qt Software is still a registered company, but owned by Nokia.

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Oct 1, 2008 16:43 UTC (Wed) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]

The related article on Phoronix has more details.

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Oct 1, 2008 21:16 UTC (Wed) by zipdisk (guest, #8589) [Link]

Two things, first according to what I read Qt Extended is what it used to be called Qtopia. Since Qtopia itself was sitting on top of Qt, it seems very difficult to believe that it contained less features than the full blown version since the full version is always present when using Qtopia.
Second, I haven't read anything about changing the name of Qt, that would be IMHO a bad move since Qt it's a known name.

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Oct 3, 2008 10:17 UTC (Fri) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]

There is (was) a difference between Qtopia and Qtopia Core.

Qtopia Core is (was) a toolkit that is source compatible with Qt, but
relies on the Linux framebuffer rather than X11. With this name change,
Qtopia Core is considered just another port of Qt, just like the X11,
Carbon, Cocoa, Win32 and WinCE ports.

Note that Qtopia Core was called just Qt (or Qt/Embedded to distinguish it
from the Qt/X11 port usually used on Linux) untill they renamed it for
version 4.0. So this is just a reversion of an imho poor old renaming
(stuff like the "Qtopia Core Core module" was kind of confusing).

Qtopia is (was) a set of programs that make up a nice front-end for phones
and PDAs. Think of it as a desktop environment, but for a phone rather than
a desktop (thus a competitor to KDE, not Qt). The official Qtopia binary
releases are built agains Qtopia Core, but you could just as well built the
source against any of the Qt ports. (In fact, that's exactly what the
OpenMonko team did when they needed some production quality "phone
applications" for their X11 platform).

It's Qtopia, not Qtopia Core, that they renamed Qt Extended, and as Qtopia
(Qt Extended) is something built on top of Qtopia Core (Qt), and thus
incorporates the whole of Qtopia Core (Qt), the name does fit...

Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended

Posted Oct 2, 2008 13:22 UTC (Thu) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

The initial root filesystem for the Freerunner seems more unstable than the older
4.3.3-snapshot release (which isn't available any more), for instance choosing a
timezone no longer works, and the touch screen seems to be far too sensitive and
get very carried away at times.

It does look nicer, with an example web browser and GPS app, but I've dropped back
for the moment until a new release appears.