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Written by frankps   
Sunday, 25 October 2009

One and a half year ago Evgeny Abdraimov decided to start porting the graphical toolkit QT4 under Haiku. Qt is a multiplatform library for developing GUI programs and is widely used in the KDE Desktop. The toolkit is developed by my friends at Qt Software, Nokia.

The project is hosted at OsDrawer.net, and Evgeny has gotten help by two other Russian developers, that many of us already know, Gerasim Troeglazov (aka 3dEyes) and Anton Sokolov.

The first visible result has been this summer with the launch of Analog Clock one of the examples in the toolkit, but they have since then, come so much further:

 

The Qt-based browser Arora running on Haiku

 

On the screenshot you can see the Arora webkit-based browser running on Haiku. You can see several more screenshots of Qt applications running on Haiku over at the site of the Italian User Group, and even better, the first dev preview of the port can be downloaded from BeOSFrance.
 

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#1 diogen 2009-10-25 12:34
Having such a decent framework being ported to Haiku it's very very impressive. Those who crying about the lack of any available Haiku software can STFU and help to the porting Qt applications as well as the toolkit. Or even better - to bring some native awesomeness.
 
 
#2 Andreas Hennig 2009-10-27 04:42
Truly amazing. Congratulations . Been following Be and now Haiku since 1998 and still love it. Porting Qt is a great step toward getting a bunch of software working that I'd need to daily use Haiku. Granted some might say that it be better and faster to run software that is using 100% native widget kit. But hey, with such a fast OS I personally don't care too much!!! :D
Great Job. Congrats to the Devs. This is awesome news.
 
 
#3 Jeff 2009-10-28 09:21
Test It , feels awesome, later i am going to port about 20 apps. Thanks alot.
 
 
#4 Fred Ollinger 2009-10-29 20:35
I just wanted to add to the chorus of congratulations . I am greatly impressed with the hard work and the success this project has had. Your contributions are greatly admired and appreciated.
 
 
#5 Xenon 2009-10-29 22:27
One of the BEST news I've ever read in years for our Haiku system. Outstanding!!!! ! :-) :-) :-)
 
 
#6 Murmeltier 2009-11-03 03:56
Why not port the virtual Globe Marble?
:D

It has Qt 4 as its only dependency (For the Qt only version KDE is not required to compile it):

http://edu.kde.org/marble/
 
 
#7 aphex 2009-11-04 01:26
Great work! Thank you so much for your effort.
 
 
#8 Shade 2009-11-05 06:58
Thanks for your comments and support =)

>Why not port the virtual Globe Marble?

Why not? ;-)

http://img44.yfrog.com/img44/791/screenshot5e.png
 
 
#9 stippi 2009-11-15 13:21
It is uncertain how this work will influence software development on Haiku as a platform, but two things are certain: It is an amazing piece of work and huge accomplishment, and it provides one more option when developing software for Haiku. Maybe sometimes deciding whether some piece of software is developed for Haiku at all.

From the screenshots I saw, the team is trying to make Qt apps look native, and I am looking forward to see this taken as far as possible. It will be interesting to watch this development.
 

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