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Submission + - Qt 4.7 released (nokia.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @11:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: Nokia today released Qt 4.7, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. It is available for download now.

A key feature of Qt 4.7 is QML (Qt Meta-Object-Language), an easy to learn, declarative language that ‘describes’ the interface of a program and how it behaves. It will be instantly familiar to developers who prefer scripting type languages such as Javascript and it allows UI designers and developers to work together in an iterative approach.

Read the full announcement at http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/nokia-releases-qt-4.7

Submission + - Qt 4.7 Released (nokia.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @11:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: Nokia Releases Qt 4.7
New version of Qt features QML, an advanced new declarative programming language, and significant performance improvements.

September 21, 2010 – Nokia today released Qt 4.7, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. It is available for download now for all of Qt’s supported platforms, with upgrades for Nokia and customer solutions expected over the coming months.

New way of developing Qt apps
A key feature of Qt 4.7 is QML (Qt Meta-Object-Language), an easy to learn, declarative language that ‘describes’ the interface of a program and how it behaves. It will be instantly familiar to developers who prefer scripting type languages such as Javascript and it allows UI designers and developers to work together in an iterative approach.

Improved performance, quicker apps
Qt 4.7 includes significant performance improvements that make applications and user interfaces run faster and smoother. Examples of these improvements include:

New hardware accelerated compositing in QtWebkit has accelerated QtWebkit animation rendering by 31% over Qt 4.6.0, resulting in “snappier” user interfaces
In benchmark tests of popular websites, Facebook pages scrolled up to 67% faster, and other, less complicated pages scrolled on average 350% faster* due to significant scrolling speed improvements in QtWebkit
The new QStaticText class makes text render more than twice as fast as in Qt 4.6
The QPainter engine makes it possible to draw particle systems more efficiently in OpenGL

“Qt 4.7 is an important step forward that keeps Qt at the forefront of UI and application development frameworks,” said Sebastian Nyström, Vice President, Application and Service Frameworks, Nokia.

“Developers looking to create rich, fluid UIs and apps will be amazed at how easy it is to use the new features in Qt 4.7,”

“Continuing to enhance Qt’s performance and stability is vital, and we’re proud to have taken Qt even further in these two areas.” concluded Nyström.

Updated Qt SDK Available for Download
An updated Qt SDK is now available for download. It contains Qt 4.7, Qt Creator 2.0.1 and everything developers need to create applications and to easily re-use the code across the Qt supported platforms. It can be downloaded at http://qt.nokia.com/downloads.

Qt 4.7 kickstart at Qt Developer Days
Qt 4.7 and Qt Quick are the central theme of the upcoming Qt Developer Days conferences in Munich (11-13 October) and San Francisco (1-3 November), with dedicated training, workshops, demos and more delivered by the developers of Qt. Read more about Qt Developer Days at http://qt.nokia.com/qtdevdays2010.

Qt Quick update
QML and Qt Declarative are two of the three pieces of the Qt Quick UI creation kit. The final component of Qt Quick — the tooling – will come with the Qt Creator 2.1 release, currently scheduled for release later in 2010.

Qt Visual Studio integration update
An update to Qt’s Visual Studio Add-in Integration was also released today, to better enable developers to use Qt together with the popular IDE. The Qt Visual Studio Add-in is now also available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1.

Learn more
To learn more about Qt 4.7 and to download the packages please visit http://qt.nokia.com/whatsnew or visit us in person at Qt Developer Days 2010 http://qt.nokia.com/qtdevdays2010.

Comment Conspiracy to raise prices (Score 3, Interesting) 703

by knuty on Saturday August 29, 2009 @04:28PM (#29246223) Attached to: James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News"

A quote from Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations 1776, is the best answer on James Murdoch worry for News Corporation's $32.996 billion USD revenue:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Submission + - Skolelinux wins the Scandinavian Free Software awa

Submitted by

knuty

on Monday December 10, 2007 @08:57AM

knuty writes: "Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce that the Norwegian project Skolelinux is the winner of the first Free Software Scandinavian Award handed out at during the Free Software Conference Scandinavia 2007 in Göteborg Friday 2007-12-07. Skolelinux also known as Debian Edu has under a long period of time worked hard to promote the use of Free Software as well as the use of free and open standards and file formats. By using low cost or spare hardware, schools and other public institutions can find a free and cheap IT solution made to meet their needs. Skolelinux captures a big part of the free software spirit; sharing and reusing. By focusing on schools, Skolelinux makes sure students, tomorrow's computer users, and decision makers, can grow up in a spirit of sharing, reusing and learning from family, friends and neighbours."

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