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Shuttleworth: Qt apps on Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth has plans for more Qt
applications in Ubuntu. "System settings and prefs, however,
have long been a cause of friction between Qt and Gtk. Integration with
system settings and preferences is critical to the sense of an application
"belonging" on the system. It affects the ability to manage that
application using the same tools one uses to manage all the other
applications, and the sorts of settings-and-preference experience that
users can have with the app. This has traditionally been a problem with Qt
/ KDE applications on Ubuntu, because Gtk apps all use a
centrally-manageable preferences store, and KDE apps do things
differently. To address this, Canonical is driving the development of
dconf bindings for Qt, so that it is possible to write a Qt app that uses
the same settings framework as everything else in Ubuntu. We've contracted
with Ryan Lortie, who obviously knows dconf very well, and he'll work with
some folks at Canonical who have been using Qt for custom development work
for customers. We're confident the result will be natural for Qt
developers, and a complete expression of dconf's semantics and
style."
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