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Qt's the three major components are the Designer, the Linguist and the Application Programming Interface (API). The Qt toolkit allows you to write source code for advanced applications with graphical user interfaces on either Linux, Windows or Mac and compile them on all three platforms and embedded operating systems with little or no rewriting of the source code, saving time and development cost.
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Since the Qt Toolkit is under the GPL/LGPL it is not threatened by this partnership, and Canonical announced that they are going to use Qt instead of Gnome to develop their Unity 2D desktop. So, considering that, and the fact that Qt is under the GPL/LGPL license, Qt remains as viable a development tool as it was before the announcement. Because Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop and KDE was built with Qt, and Qt is the most powerful GUI RAD tool available on Linux, and some would say Windows as well, the following is information is about how to install Qt.
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Since the Qt Toolkit is under the GPL/LGPL it is not threatened by this partnership, and Canonical announced that they are going to use Qt instead of Gnome to develop their Unity 2D desktop. So, considering that, and the fact that Qt is under the GPL/LGPL license, Qt remains as viable a development tool as it was before the announcement. Because Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop and KDE was built with Qt, and Qt is the most powerful GUI RAD tool available on Linux, and some would say Windows as well, the following is information about how to install Qt.
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