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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

I was impressed with the speed of the latest opera builds with qt4.5 so I went in search of a QT (only QT no kde libs) window manager and this was what I got.

here are the downloads

All QT4 libs are packaged separately here:
http://puppylinux.asia/members/T/QT-4.5.2/ puppy:linux for user:password

and finally Antico 0.2 (requires libQt{Core,DBus,Xml,Gui})
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=18434
exit to prompt and

disciple · Posted: Tue 19 May 2009, 02:35 Post subject:

Do you have a good QT filer to go with it?
Why do you particularly want a QT wm?
To get rid of GTK we would need at least a word processor, spreadsheets, drawing program(s) and CD/DVD burner, but it seems to me that there aren't good QT-only options for some of these things - they tend to require KDE Sad

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

Variety is the spice of life, besides I like the speed, flexibility and portability of QT - I am looking at getting something for each category from qt-apps. There are many programs that can compile against QT vs GTK such as vlc, webkit and others that are IMHO best in class for speed & size.

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 737

i think it would be intreresting to have qt based puppy, although it needs to find good apps
smplayer should be mentioned also Very Happy

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

Yes its a nice idea in theory, however so many core puppy programs are based on gtkdialog that it would be very difficult to go completely QT. I don't know of any drop-in replacement for gtkdialog... that would eliminate most of the wizards and several other programs that start with p. The wizards could mostly be converted to bash+xdialog, but we are talking about a lot of time for a lesser quality program... not something I would want to do. Perhaps the 2 wm style approach in 4.2 is a more realistic goal.

I have already found quite a selection of the other QT programs at qt-apps and also included in the QT-4.5.1 source tarball

Michalis · Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 237 Location: Greece

Intersting, nice work. It can be combinated with opera shared libs (smaller size) and also with transmission since 1.6 has qt client. Now lets start the search for other qt apps. Very Happy

The only think I don't like with qt is that isn't GPL Sad

disciple · Posted: Wed 20 May 2009, 02:03 Post subject:

Why is LGPL so much worse than GPL?

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

just for comparison here is qlwm compiled against qt-4.5.2

the config files are in /root/.qlwm

requires only qtcore and qtgui (same as opera10)

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

I just added QTCommander as a File Manager to 1st post. The QT4 version is not available as a tarball - development only but it seems ok for testing.

Opera is available as a browser, but I also have a < 5mb pet that has the QT Webkit Browser (flash works on it too)

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

Here is a torrent client

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

And a webkit browser that works with flash out of the box (and less than half a MB pet) needs QT{webkit,network,xml,gui} libs

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4854 Location: Blue Springs, MO

Here is a simple text editor for odf and html documents

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 11:11 Post subject:

as a burner goes, you could use tkdvd ?
ttuuxxx

disciple · Posted: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 17:41 Post subject:

but that's not QT Question

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 17:55 Post subject:

yes but its a good small less than 1.5MB including deps non gtk burner. whats the other choices min 5MB gtk deps plus burner app. or maybe bashburn but its not as nice.
ttuuxxx