Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated]

Balinares writes "NewsForge reports that Novell has settled for Qt as its Linux desktop development environment, casting more light on their strategy to unify KDE and GNOME. This ought to be interesting. The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance. Maybe programming will suck no longer!" Update: 03/30 00:01 GMT by T : Sounds like that story doesn't quite hold water; Nat Friedman writes in this Slashdot comment that "We have not decided that we are standardizing on Qt for the desktop. ... We support development with a variety of toolkits, and our internal development is done using the right tool for the right problem. This includes Qt, Gtk, VCL, XUL and others, depending on the application."

Re:QT? What about licensing?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the GPL?

Re:QT? What about licensing?

[Anonymous Coward]

What, like GPL?

Boy.

[Anonymous Coward]

The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance.

Boy, you really need to get out more.

Programming

[Bingo Foo]

Maybe programming will suck no longer!

Hey, if programming were easy, people would do it for free.

Re:Boy.

[Chuck Bucket]

Boy, you really need to get out more.

you must be new here.

God Dammit!!!

[AyeRoxor!]

I hate QUICKTIME!!! /should I rtfa?

Re:Programming

[davecb]

I think mixing C, C, ++, GTK and QT should make programming much more fun, by making it almost totally impossible (;-))

--dave

If only

[Anonymous Coward]

If only Sun had embraced Open Source the way Microsoft did, maybe Java/Swing would find itself beginning to be the consensus cross-platform GUI development platform instead of Mono... pity

Re:Boy.

[alext]

Who'd have thought that .NET could actually lead developers away from Microsoft[?]

You and Miguel?

Re:Setting the record straight.

[Anonymous Coward]

Novell could never impose a standard platform on the community at large

Change "Novell" for "Microsoft" and that line gets sarcastic very quickly.

Re:Setting the record straight.

[ainsoph]

The only way for Linux to succeed is to mimic MS's API's.

To that, we must throw out everything and clone Longhorn.

This is so beneficial I cant believe its not obvious to everyone.