LWN: Comments on "Qt5 beta released" https://lwn.net/Articles/514605/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Qt5 beta released". en-us Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:37:59 +0000 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:37:59 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514697/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514697/ ekj <div class="FormattedComment"> Yeah. Hard to avoid that when there's several completely independent implementations though. It's not as if (say) all SQL-servers are 100% compatible drop-in-replacements for eachother either. (particularly not if you use the "new and exciting" stuff)<br> </div> Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:30:57 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514687/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514687/ danieldk <div class="FormattedComment"> The final release seems to be planned for November:<br> <p> <a href="http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_5.0">http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_5.0</a><br> </div> Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:27:42 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514685/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514685/ Ed_L. Finished my FC17 beta build this morning. After installing requisite yum packages, all went well with<br> <code> ./configure -prefix $PWD/qtbase -opensource -nomake qtwebkit -nomake qtwebkit-examples-and-demos -confirm-license -no-dbus </code></br> The two qtwebkit directories have a separate build script; they too built without issue and the webkit demo browser seems to work. Hope they can have QT5-final for 12.10 and FC-18. Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:18:23 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514659/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514659/ danieldk <div class="FormattedComment"> Cool, I am really looking forward to try some of the new features, including support for JSON parsing (yay, one external dependency less) and compile-time checking of signal-slot connections.<br> <p> Good work Trolls/Digia!<br> </div> Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:44:26 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514656/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514656/ butlerm <div class="FormattedComment"> <font class="QuotedText">&gt;HTML is the only UI API that enjoys universal support</font><br> <p> HTML is a bit of a joke precisely because approximately nothing enjoys universal support. If a new feature is introduced, if you are lucky a decade later you might be able to rely on it. Until then, you more likely will have to write custom code for three or more major mutually incompatible implementations.<br> </div> Sun, 02 Sep 2012 05:55:04 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514644/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514644/ reddit <div class="FormattedComment"> Why not just use HTML5 with extensions as the interface, rather than imitating it with QML, a canvas that "Supports most of the HTML5 context2d APIs", Javascript support, etc.?<br> <p> After all, HTML is the only UI API that enjoys universal support, and will continue to be in use with full backward compatibility forever.<br> <p> </div> Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:36:32 +0000 Qt5 beta released https://lwn.net/Articles/514631/ https://lwn.net/Articles/514631/ troy.unrau <div class="FormattedComment"> I'm excited! In one project I'm working on, half of my TODO list reads: "When Qt5 is released, do this because it's cleaner" or "New API scheduled for Qt 5.1 will make this elegant." etc. Glad to see them moving along nicely in a post-Nokia world.<br> <p> p.s.: anyone else secretly hope that digia renames themselves TrollTech? :D<br> </div> Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:28:04 +0000