Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
An anonymous reader writes "Beginning with version 1.11.0, open source packet analyzer Wireshark is switching its user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. 'Both libraries make it easy for developers [to] write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot of code. GTK+ has had a huge impact on the way Wireshark looks and feels and on its popularity but it doesn't cover our supported platforms as effectively as it should and the situation is getting worse as time goes on.'"
Props to all sticking it out and trying Qt out! (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a big win for the Qt ecosystem. Between KDE libraries reworked into portable Qt modules [slashdot.org] and official iOS and Android support [slashdot.org] even with support from Digia [slashdot.org]-- Qt is gaining momentum. They even managed to survive being gobbled by Nokia [slashdot.org], then being sold [slashdot.org] to Digia [slashdot.org]-- it has been a bumpy ride.
I recently tried out the latest Kubuntu and have been loving it installed on an old Dell D410 (12inch, 1.8Ghz SC Pentium, 1.5G RAM) laptop and it runs well and does everything I need (which in this case is Qt related application development :-)
GTK+ is ugly. (Score:3, Insightful)
There you go, "Gnome" with all your bullshit misunderstanding of how a GUI is intended to look like. Go Qt!
Gnome tool kit (Score:5, Insightful)
Gtk used to stand for the gimp toolkit, but more and more it's the gnome toolkit. I wouldn't be surprised to see it merged into the gnome framework entirely at and future date. Even the mailing list is now renamed to gnome-list.
It's still a great toolkit, and still somewhat cross-platform. It's still being actively worked on on Windows and Mac osx. But with the focus mainly on gnome and Linux (gnome 3 has little support for other platforms now) they are not as advanced or stable ports.
I think wireshark's move to qt is a good one. Will definitely lead to better apps on Windows and Mac.
Re:Status of QT? (Score:4, Insightful)
When last I heard, a few years ago, QT had been acquired by Nokia. More recently, it seems that Nokia is being acquired by the borg(Microsoft).
It would seem that QT is to be owned by Microsoft. Is this correct? If so, what does that hold for QT? I realize that QT is LGPL or some such, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft won't ruin it or snuff it out. See Oracle and MySQL for a road map. Hopefully I am wrong.
Fortunately, yes, you are wrong. Digia bought the business side of Qt from Nokia in 2012 [digia.com]. The free-software side of Qt is the Qt Project [qt-project.org].