Qt (software) explained

Qt (software)
Qt
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Author:	Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng
Programming Language:	C++ (C++17)
Operating System:	Android, iOS, Linux (embedded, Wayland, X11), macOS, Microsoft Windows, WebAssembly, ...^[1]
Platform:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Cross-platform software and Software development tools

Qt (pronounced "cute"^{[2] [3]} or as an initialism) is a cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.

Qt is currently being developed by The Qt Company, a publicly listed company, and the Qt Project under open-source governance, involving individual developers and organizations working to advance Qt.^{[4] [5] [6]} Qt is available under both commercial licenses and open-source GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0, and LGPL 3.0 licenses.

Purposes and abilities

Qt is used for developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and multi-platform applications that run on all major desktop platforms and mobile or embedded platforms.Most GUI programs created with Qt have a native-looking interface, in which case Qt is classified as a widget toolkit. Non-GUI programs can also be developed, such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. An example of such a non-GUI program using Qt is the Cutelyst web framework.^[7]

Qt supports various C++ compilers, including the GCC and Clang C++ compilers and the Visual Studio suite. It supports other languages with bindings or extensions, such as Python via Python bindings^[8] and PHP via an extension for PHP5,^[9] and has extensive internationalization support. Qt also provides Qt Quick, that includes a declarative scripting language called QML that allows using JavaScript to provide the logic. With Qt Quick, rapid application development for mobile devices became possible, while logic can still be written with native code as well to achieve the best possible performance.

Other features include SQL database access, XML parsing, JSON parsing, thread management and network support.

Releases

The latest version of the Qt Framework is Qt 6.7, which was released on April 2, 2024.

Also still supported are — for commercial users — 6.5 LTS, released on April 3, 2023, 6.2 LTS,^[10] released on 30 September 2021, and 5.15 LTS, released on 26 May 2020 – long-term support (LTS) versions are generally supported for three years with a commercial license, while 5.15 support was extended to five years for subscription license holders, and so it is supported until 26 May 2025. Additionally the KDE project provides unofficial support for, at least, Qt 5.15, i.e. not just for commercial users.

Qt in use

In 2017, the Qt Company estimated a community of about 1 million developers worldwide^[11] in over 70 industries.^[12]

Desktop UIs

Graphical user-interfaces and desktop environments that utilize Qt/QML as widget toolkit:

• KDE Plasma, a libre desktop environment for various computing devices^[13]
• DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) of Linux Deepin^{[14] [15]}
• UKUI (Ubuntu Kylin User Interface)^[16]
• CutefishDE, a desktop environment built with Qt Quick and essential KDE frameworks ^[17]
• LXQt (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment)
• Lumina, a desktop environment designed for BSD-based TrueOS^[18]
• Lomiri (formerly Unity8),^[19] a convergent desktop environment started by Canonical, maintained by Ubports^[20]
• Maui Shell, a DE that also features their own app suite^[21]
• Unity 2D, a desktop shell written in Qt and Qml
• Trinity DE, a continuously developed fork based on KDE3^[22]
• SDDM, a display manager written in QML that is compatible with X11 and Wayland.

Embedded and mobile UIs

• Actively developed or maintained
  • AsteroidOS, an open source operating system designed for smartwatches
  • Avionics, Panasonic's in-flight entertainment system^{[23] [24]}
  • Sailfish OS, a mobile operating system developed by Jolla
  • Plasma Mobile, a touch-based GUI developed by KDE
  • LuneOS, community-driven successor for Palm/HP webOS
  • Nemo Mobile, based on Mer
  • Lomiri, formerly known as Unity8, a phone UI developed by Ubports, originally by Canonical
  • Tesla Model S in-car UI^[25]
  • webOS, a multitask operating system from LG for smart devices like TVs and smartwatches
  • Sky Q, the home entertainment system of Sky plc^[26]
• Available, but inactive
  • MeeGo handset and tablet UX
  • Qtopia, a system by Nokia for embedded and mobile devices

Applications using Qt

Many notable open-source or proprietary cross-platform software are using Qt or QML:

• 010 Editor, a commercial hex editor and text editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS.
• Ableton Live
• Adobe Photoshop Album^[27]
• Adobe Photoshop Elements^[28]
• AMD's Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver tool application.^[29]
• Audacious, a music player for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other Unix-like operating systems.
• Autodesk Maya^[30]
• Autodesk 3ds Max^[31]
• Bitcoin Core, the reference bitcoin implementation. Most bitcoin forks also provide the reference GUI.
• Calibre, ebook collection application^[32]
• Celestia, real-time 3D simulator of the entire known universe (Qt only available with v1.7.0)
• CryEngine V editor^[33]
• DaVinci Resolve, a video editor
• Dogecoin Core^[34] community-driven cryptocurrency software.
• Dolphin (emulator), an emulator for the Wii and GameCube
• Dorico notation software
• Dragonframe^[35] stop motion animation software
• EAGLE by CadSoft Computer / Autodesk, an EDA application with schematic capture, PCB layout, auto-router and CAM features
• FreeCAD, free open source parametric 3D CAD modeler
• FreeMat free open source numerical computing environment
• Gambas free open source BASIC integrated development environment
• GCompris free educational suite for children
• Google Earth^[36]
• GPlates, a plate tectonics visualisation software
• Igor Pro, a data analysis software
• Krita graphics editing and digital painting software^[37]
• LMMS, a cross-platform music production software
• Mathematica, a mathematical symbolic computation program, sometimes termed a computer algebra system or program, used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields.^[38]
• Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, implements its official desktop wallet software using Qt.^[39]
• MuseScore, an open-source, multiplatform notation software
• OBS, a libre cross-platform screencast software
• Orange data mining suite^[40]
• ParaView open-source cross-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization^[41]
• PCSX2, a free and open-source cross-platform Playstation 2 emulator
• qBittorrent cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client^[42]
• QGIS geographic information system^[43]
• Qtractor Audio multitrack recorder and editing software
• QuiteRSS Feed Reader
• Retroshare F2F communication platform
• Roblox Studio a game creation tool used on the Roblox platform
• Scribus desktop publishing software^[44]
• Sibelius music composition and notation software^[45]
• SoulseekQT, a P2P file-sharing client^[46]
• Source 2 engine tools^[47] a 3D video game engine developed by Valve
• Spyder, a Python IDE
• Stellarium, a planetarium program
• Subsurface, a software for logging and planning scuba dives initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds^[48]
• SuperCollider, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
• Synergy, a software application for sharing a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers
• Teamviewer, a computer software package for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers^[49]
• Telegram, a messaging client available for Windows, Mac and Linux^[50]
• VirtualBox OS virtualization software^[51]
• VLC media player^[52]
• Wireshark, a packet analyzer^[53]
• WPS Office^[54]
• XaoS, a real-time fractal zoomer
• XnView MP^[55]

Organizations using Qt

Qt is utilized by a wide range of companies and organizations such as

• AMD^[56]
• Blizzard Entertainment^[57]
• BMW^[58]
• Crytek^[33]
• Daimler AG^{[59] [60]}
• DreamWorks^{[61] [62]}
• Electronic Arts^[63]
• European Space Agency^[64]
• German Air Traffic Control^[65]
• HP^[66]
• LG^[67]
• Lucasfilm^{[68] [69]}
• Microsoft^[70]
• Panasonic^[71]
• Philips^[72]
• Robert Bosch GmbH^[73]
• Samsung^[74]
• Siemens^[75]
• Tesla^[76]
• Tomtom^[77]
• Valve^[78]
• Volvo^[79]
• Walt Disney Animation Studios^[80]

Qt software architecture

Qt concepts

Qt is built on these key concepts:

Complete abstraction of the GUI: When first released, Qt used its own paint engine and controls, emulating the look of the different platforms it runs on when it drew its widgets. This made the porting work easier because very few classes in Qt really depended on the target platform; however, this occasionally led to slight discrepancies where that emulation was imperfect. Recent versions of Qt use the native style APIs of the different platforms, on platforms that have a native widget set, to query metrics and draw most controls, and do not suffer from such issues as often.^[81] On some platforms (such as MeeGo and KDE) Qt is the native API. Some other portable graphical toolkits have made different design decisions; for example, wxWidgets uses the toolkits of the target platform for its implementations.

Signals and slots

A language construct introduced in Qt for communication between objects^[82] which makes it easy to implement the observer pattern while avoiding boilerplate code. The concept is that GUI widgets can send signals containing event information which can be received by other controls using special functions known as slots.

Metaobject compiler: The metaobject compiler, termed moc, is a tool that is run on the sources of a Qt program. It interprets certain macros from the C++ code as annotations, and uses them to generate added C++ code with meta information about the classes used in the program. This meta information is used by Qt to provide programming features not available natively in C++: signals and slots, introspection and asynchronous function calls.

Language bindings:Qt can be used in several programming languages other than C++, such as Python, Javascript, C# and Rust^[83] via language bindings; many languages have bindings for Qt 5 and bindings for Qt 4.

Qt modules

Starting with Qt 4.0 the framework was split into individual modules.^{[84] [85]} With Qt 5.0 the architecture was modularized even further.^{[86] [87]} Qt is now split into essential and add-on modules.^[88]

Qt essentials

Module	Description
Qt Core	The only required Qt module, containing classes used by other modules, including the meta-object system, concurrency and threading, containers, event system, plugins and I/O facilities.
Qt GUI	The central GUI module. In Qt 5 this module now depends on OpenGL, but no longer contains any widget classes.
Qt Widgets	Contains classes for classic widget based GUI applications and the QSceneGraph classes. Was split off from QtGui in Qt 5.
Qt QML	Module for QML and JavaScript languages.
Qt Quick	The module for GUI applications written using QML2.
Qt Quick Controls	Widget like controls for Qt Quick intended mainly for desktop applications.
Qt Quick Layouts	Layouts for arranging items in Qt Quick.
Qt Network	Network abstraction layer. Complete with support for TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS, SSL (in Qt 4) and SPDY (since Qt 5.3).
Qt Multimedia	Classes for audio, video, radio and camera functionality.
Qt Multimedia Widgets	The widgets from Qt Multimedia.
Qt SQL	Contains classes for database integration using SQL.
Qt WebEngine	A new set of Qt Widget and QML webview APIs based on Chromium.
Qt Test	Classes for unit testing Qt applications and libraries.

Qt add-ons

Module	Description
Active Qt	Classes for applications which use ActiveX.
Qt Charts	Provides functionality and widgets to plot charts of many kinds
Qt Bluetooth	Classes accessing Bluetooth hardware.
Qt D-Bus	Classes for IPC using the D-Bus protocol.
Qt NFC	Classes accessing NFC hardware. Only officially supported on BlackBerry hardware so far (or N9 in the MeeGo port).
Qt OpenGL	Legacy module containing the OpenGL classes from Qt 4. In Qt 5 the similar functionality in Qt GUI is recommended.
Qt Location	Classes for accessing GPS and other location services and for mapping and navigation. Split off from the Qt 4 Mobility module of Qt Location. Supported on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Linux (using GeoClue), Windows and Sailfish OS.
Qt Quick 3D	Classes for rendering 3D models, video games, simulations and 3D user interfaces, with a Qt QML API, into a mixed 2D and 3D scene graph.
Qt Script	Legacy module for scripting Qt application using ECMAScript/JavaScript. In Qt 5, using similar classes in Qt QML is recommended.
Qt Sensors	Classes for accessing various mobile hardware sensors. Used to be part of Qt Mobile in Qt 4. Supported on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, WinRT, Mer and Linux.
Qt Serial Port	Classes for access to hardware and virtual serial ports. Supported on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Qt WebChannel	Provides access to Qt objects to HTML/Js over WebSockets.
Qt WebKit	Qt's WebKit implementation and API.
Qt WebKit Widgets	The widget API for Qt WebKit
Qt WebSockets	Provides a WebSocket implementation.
Qt XML	Legacy module containing classes for SAX and DOM style XML APIs. Replaced with QXmlStreamReader and QXmlStreamWriter classes in Qt Core.
Qt XML Patterns	Support for XPath, XQuery, XSLT and XML Schema validation.

Editions

There are four editions of Qt available: Community, Indie Mobile, Professional and Enterprise.^[89] The Community version is under the open source licenses, while the Indie Mobile, Professional and Enterprise versions, which contain additional functionality and libraries, e.g. Enterprise Controls are commercially sold by The Qt Company.

Supported platforms

See main article: List of platforms supported by Qt.

Qt works on many different platforms; the following are officially supported:

Platform	Description
Linux/Unix
X11	Qt for X Window System (Linux);^[90] FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD have community support.
Wayland	Qt applications can switch between graphical backends like X and Wayland at load time with the -platform command line option.^[91] ^[92] This allows a seamless transition of Qt applications from X11 to Wayland. SailfishOS uses Wayland only as it does not have X11.^[93]
Android	Qt for Android^[94] (formerly known as Necessitas).^[95]
Embedded Linux	Qt for embedded platforms: personal digital assistant, smartphone, etc.^[96] Exists as multiple platforms depending on display technology. DirectFB, LinuxFB and EGLFS (EGL Full Screen).
Microsoft platforms
Windows	Qt for Microsoft Windows 7,^[97] 8 and 10^[98]
Windows RT	Support for WinRT-based Windows 10 Mobile apps and Windows 10 IoT^[99]
Apple platforms
macOS	Qt for Apple macOS; supports applications on Cocoa^[100]
iOS	Qt for iOS platforms (iPhone, iPad)^[101]
Other embedded platforms
Integrity	Qt for Integrity^[102]
QNX	Qt for QNX^[103] ^[104]
VxWorks	Qt for VxWorks.^[105] ^[106] Only available under a proprietary (commercial) license. Qt 5.5.

After Nokia opened the Qt source code to the community on Gitorious, various ports appeared. There are also some ports of Qt that may be available, but are not supported anymore. These platforms are listed in List of platforms supported by Qt. See also there for current community support for other lesser known platforms, such as SailfishOS.

Licensing

Qt is available under the following free software licenses:^[107] GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0, LGPL 3.0 and LGPL 2.1 (with Qt special exception).^{[108] [109]} Note that some modules are available only under a GPL license, which means that applications which link to these modules need to comply with that license.^[110]

In addition, Qt has always been available under a commercial license, like the Qt Commercial License,^[111] that allows developing proprietary applications with no restrictions on licensing.

Qt tools

See also: Qt Creator.

Qt comes with its own set of tools to ease cross-platform development, which can otherwise be cumbersome due to different set of development tools.

Qt Creator is a cross-platform IDE for C++ and QML. Qt Designer's GUI layout/design functionality is integrated into the IDE, although Qt Designer can still be started as a standalone tool.

In addition to Qt Creator, Qt provides qmake, a cross-platform build script generation tool that automates the generation of Makefiles for development projects across different platforms.There are other tools available in Qt, including the Qt Designer interface builder and the Qt Assistant help browser (which are both embedded in Qt Creator), the Qt Linguist translation tool, uic (user interface compiler), and moc (Meta-Object Compiler).

History of Qt

Early developments

In the summer of 1990, Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng (the original developers of Qt and the CEO and President, respectively, of Trolltech) were working together on a database application for ultrasound images written in C++ and running on Mac OS, Unix, and Microsoft Windows.^[112] They began development of "Qt" in 1991, three years before the company was incorporated as Quasar Technologies, then changed the name to Troll Tech and then to Trolltech.

The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked appealing in Haavard's Emacs typeface, and "t" was inspired by Xt, the X toolkit.^[113]

The first two versions of Qt had only two flavors: Qt/X11 for Unix and Qt/Windows for Windows.

On 20 May 1995 Trolltech publicly released Qt 0.90 for X11/Linux with the source code under the Qt Free Edition License.^{[114] [115] [116]} This license was viewed as not compliant with the free software definition by Free Software Foundation because, while the source was available, it did not allow the redistribution of modified versions. Trolltech used this license until version 1.45. Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.

The Windows platform was available only under a proprietary license, which meant free/open source applications written in Qt for X11 could not be ported to Windows without purchasing the proprietary edition.

Becoming free software–friendly

With the release of version 2.0 of the toolkit in mid-1999, the license was changed to the Q Public License (QPL), a free software license, but one regarded by the Free Software Foundation as incompatible with the GPL. Compromises were sought between KDE and Trolltech whereby Qt would not be able to fall under a more restrictive license than the QPL, even if Trolltech was bought out or went bankrupt. This led to the creation of the KDE Free Qt foundation,^[117] which guarantees that Qt would fall under a BSD-style license should no free/open source version of Qt be released during 12 months.^{[118] [119]}

In 2000, Qt/X11 2.2 was released under the GPL v2,^[120] ending all controversy regarding GPL compatibility.

At the end of 2001, Trolltech released Qt 3.0, which added support for Mac OS X (now known as macOS). The Mac OS X support was available only in the proprietary license until June 2003, when Trolltech released Qt 3.2 with Mac OS X support available under the GPL.

In 2002, members of the KDE on Cygwin project began porting the GPL licensed Qt/X11 code base to Windows.^[121] This was in response to Trolltech's refusal to license Qt/Windows under the GPL on the grounds that Windows was not a free/open source software platform.^{[122] [123]} The project achieved reasonable success although it never reached production quality.

This was resolved when Trolltech released Qt 4.0 also for Windows under the GPL in June 2005.^[124] Qt 4 supported the same set of platforms in the free software/open source editions as in the proprietary edition, so it is possible, with Qt 4.0 and later releases, to create GPL-licensed free/open source applications using Qt on all supported platforms. The GPL v3 with special exception^[125] was later added as an added licensing option. The GPL exception allows the final application to be licensed under various GPL-incompatible free software/open source licenses such as the Mozilla Public License 1.1.

Acquisition by Nokia

Nokia acquired Trolltech ASA on 17 June 2008 and changed the name first to Qt Software, then to Qt Development Frameworks.

Nokia focused on turning Qt into the main development platform for its devices, including a port to the Symbian S60 platform. Version 1.0 of the Nokia Qt SDK was released on 23 June 2010.^[126] The source code was made available over Gitorious, a community oriented git source code repository, with a goal of creating a broader community using and improving Qt.

On 14 January 2009, Qt version 4.5 added another option, the LGPL,^[127] to make Qt more attractive for both non-GPL open source projects and closed applications.^[128]

In February 2011, Nokia announced its decision to drop Symbian technologies and base their future smartphones on the Windows Phone platform instead (and since then support for that platform has also been dropped).^[129] One month later, Nokia announced the sale of Qt's commercial licensing and professional services to Digia, with the immediate goal of taking Qt support to Android, iOS and Windows 8 platforms, and to continue focusing on desktop and embedded development, although Nokia was to remain the main development force behind the framework at that time.

Merging and demerging with Digia

In March 2011, Nokia sold the commercial licensing part of Qt to Digia, creating Qt Commercial.^[130] In August 2012, Digia announced that it would acquire Qt from Nokia.^[131] The Qt team at Digia started their work in September 2012.^[132] They released Qt 5.0 within a month and newer versions every six months with new features and additional supported platforms.

In September 2014, Digia transferred the Qt business and copyrights to their wholly owned subsidiary, The Qt Company, which owns 25 brands^[133] related to Qt. In May 2016, Digia and Qt demerged completely into two independent companies.^[134]

The Qt Project and open governance

See main article: Qt Project.

Qt 5 was officially released on 19 December 2012. This new version marked a major change in the platform, with hardware-accelerated graphics, QML and JavaScript playing a major role. The traditional C++-only QWidgets continued to be supported, but did not benefit from the performance improvements available through the new architecture.^[135] Qt 5 brings significant improvements to the speed and ease of developing user interfaces.^[136]

Framework development of Qt 5 moved to open governance at qt-project.org, which made it possible for developers outside Digia to submit patches for review.^[137]

Qt contributors

Aside from The Qt Company, many organizations and individuals using Qt as their development platform participate in the open development of Qt via the Qt Project.^[138]

One such Qt contributor is Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a Swedish Qt consulting company.^[139] KDAB is involved in many areas, including maintenance of several components.^{[140] [141]}

Together with RIM/BlackBerry, KDAB is maintaining the QNX and BlackBerry 10 ports of Qt.^[142]

Another participator is Intel, contributing for example Wayland support.^[143] AudioCodes maintains IBM ClearCase support in Qt Creator.^[144]

As a heavy user of Qt, the KDE project submits many patches and features from its developer library KDE Frameworks back to Qt.^[145]

See also

• List of widget toolkits
• Android software development
• iOS SDK
• Wt (web toolkit)

Bibliography

Qt Wiki provides a comprehensive list of English books about Qt.^[146] This is a list of notable books:

• Web site: Bocklage-Ryannel. Juergen. Thelin. Johan. Qt 5 Cadaques. 1st. 12 May 2015.
• Book: Blanchette. Jasmin. Summerfield. Mark. C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4. 2nd. 14 February 2008. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-235416-5.
• Book: Summerfield , Mark . Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4. 1st. 23 August 2010. Addison-Wesley. 978-0-321-63590-7.
• Book: Fitzek . Frank H. P. . Mikkonen . Tommi . Torp . Tony . Qt for Symbian . 1st . 17 May 2010 . . 978-0-470-75010-0 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091219194350/http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470750103.html . 19 December 2009.
• Book: Summerfield , Mark . Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt. 1st. 28 October 2007. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-235418-9.
• Book: Molkentin , Daniel . The Book of Qt 4: The Art of Building Qt Applications. 1st. 19 July 2007. No Starch Press. 978-1-59327-147-3.
• Book: Thelin , Johan . Foundations of Qt Development . 1st . 3 August 2007 . . 978-1-59059-831-3 . 18 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150120021243/http://www.apress.com/9781590598313 . 20 January 2015 . dead.
• Book: Dalheimer , Matthias . Programming with Qt . 2nd . January 2002 . . 978-0-596-00064-6 . registration.
• Book: Ezust. Alan. Ezust. Paul. An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4. 2nd. 10 September 2006. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-187905-8.

External links

• • Web site: The Qt 4 Dance . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/NbTEVbQLC8s. 2021-12-11 . live. YouTube. 11 August 2006 . video . 7 September 2015 .

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5. News: Meyer . David . Nokia gives Qt open-source governance . ZDNet . 24 October 2011 . 8 May 2013.
6. Web site: Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem. Lars. Knoll. 6 August 2014.
7. Web site: Cutelyst - Home.
8. Web site: 2023-12-27. PyQt Documentation. www.riverbankcomputing.com.
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10. Web site: Qt 6.2.2 Released. 1 Dec 2021. Qt. The Qt Company. 6 Dec 2021.
11. Web site: QT GROUP OYJ - Managers' Transactions, 12/4/2017. 12 April 2017. 8 June 2017.
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13. Web site: The KDE development platform.
14. Web site: Beautifully Crafted Deepin 15 Linux OS Drops Ubuntu for Debian Sid, RC Out Now . Marius Nestor . 24 December 2015 . The Deepin desktop environment has been refactored in the latest Qt GUI toolkit, replacing the HTML5 and WebKit frameworks, while Go is still used for the backend..
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22. Web site: About Trinity. www.trinitydesktop.org. 25 April 2019.
23. Web site: X Series Qt-based graphical user interface. 14 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160223130443/http://panasonic.aero/InflightSystems/XSeries/eXK.aspx. 23 February 2016. dead.
24. Web site: Avionics powered by Qt. 17 June 2015 .
25. Web site: Qt Interface. 23 October 2013 .
26. Web site: Sky teams up with The QT Company on Sky Q. 19 April 2016 .
27. Book: C++ GUI Programming with Qt4 By Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield . 9780132703000 . Blanchette . Jasmin . Summerfield . Mark . 4 February 2008. Pearson Education .
28. Book: Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: First International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, October 26-29, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Edited by Petros Zerfos, Rebecca Montanari, Thomas Phan . 9783642126062 . Zerfos . Petros . Montanari . Rebecca . Phan . Thomas . 11 May 2010 . Springer .
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31. Web site: What's New: 3ds Max 2018 SDK . help.autodesk.com . 14 June 2019 . 3ds Max 2018 now uses Qt 5.6.2, and plug-ins can build UIs in Qt using the standard GPL Qt 5.6.2 distribution, and the Visual Studio 2015 Qt add-on.
32. Web site: Plugin devs: Upcoming migration to Qt 6 - MobileRead Forums .
33. Web site: An update on our Sandbox interface and the Legacy Editor.
34. Web site: Dogecoin Core [DOGE, Ð] . .
35. Web site: Dyami Caliri, Qt Champion 2014.
36. Web site: Google Earth Includes a Web Browser . Googlesystem.Blogspot.de . 15 June 2010. 8 April 2013.
37. Web site: Krita 3.0 Released . 31 May 2016. 5 September 2017.
38. Web site: Mathematica by Wolfram Research . dead . 29 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130529062205/http://qt.digia.com/Qt-in-Action/Mathematica-by-Wolfram-Research.
39. Web site: Monero GUI . GitHub. 2 June 2022.
40. Web site: Orange3 Data Mining Suite. GitHub. 3 June 2022 .
41. Web site: Parallel Data Analysis and Visualization Application based on VTK.
42. Web site: Qbittorrent . GitHub. 18 February 2022.
43. Web site: PyQGIS Developer Cookbook: Introduction . qgis.org . 1 March 2017 . the whole QGIS code depends on Qt libraries.
44. Web site: Scribus Development.
45. Web site: Sibelius - the leading music composition and notation software. www.sibelius.com. 19 October 2016.
46. Web site: SoulseekQT Public Build 1. 2024-01-04. 2014-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20140512231731/http://www.slsknet.org/news/node/7. live.
47. Web site: Panorama . Valve Developer Community . 28 April 2017.
48. Web site: Subsurface 4.0 has been released . 15 December 2013.
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