On 9 September 2015 at 04:11, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/09/2015 10:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> What's Qt? Does it go over VPN? Do I need a Qt as opposed to X11 >> desktop agent? QuickTime? > > Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used to build desktop GUI applications. I > run Slickedit on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu and access the file systems over > SMB, NFS or FTP.
Qt's most prominent roots pass through the Symbian (Nokia) smartphone era. It was open-sourced, and then closed again (but of course the genie was out of the bottle) as Nokia went through its death throes. Now Nokia's phones run Windows, and have approximately 0% market share (down from around 80% just a few years ago). Qt is used to implement, among others, the KDE desktop environment for Linux. There's a fairly detailed Wikipedia article. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
