Among GNOME 3, Ubuntu Linux’s Unity, and Windows 8’s Metro, there’s no denying that desktop environments have become a hot topic in 2011. More specifically, mobile-inspired interfaces are becoming ...

This new Linux desktop runs like an app - and launches in 4 steps ...

Those in the homogeneous Windows world may be bracing themselves anxiously for the impending arrival of Windows 8 with its controversial Metro interface, but for Linux users, the array of desktop ...

Nokia announced today the launch of Qt Extended 4.4, a complete mobile and embedded development platform based on the open source Qt toolkit. It is designed with a modular architecture that provides ...

In January of 2001, I began an internship at Trolltech's embedded development office in Brisbane, Australia. My goal was twofold: to learn C++ and to learn how to develop embedded applications. I ...

Finnish handset vendor Nokia pressed on with development of its in house Linux platform on Friday, porting its cross platform application and user interface framework – Qt – to Maemo 5. Nokia’s ...

The well-known Qt cross-platform application framework from Trolltech crossed the Version 4.4 threshold this week. The folks at Trolltech say that Qt 4.4 adds functionality that, "for the first time, ...

Nokia has announced the availability Qt 4.5, a major update of the popular development toolkit. This version is packed with impressive new features and includes significant performance improvements.

Want to start a fight in Linux desktop circles? Say, loudly and obnoxiously that Qt, the programming libraries behind the KDE desktop, are better than GTK+, the libraries backing GNOME. Or, vice-versa ...

This week, the team at Digia rolled out the first alpha release of Qt 5.1. Side note: You may know “Qt” as the framework powering KDE. Why is this so interesting? Why, with so much cool tech news ...