<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Want to start a fight in Linux desktop circles? Say, loudly and obnoxiously that <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/">Qt</a>, the programming libraries behind the <a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a> desktop, are better than <a href="http://www.gtk.org">GTK+</a>, the libraries backing <a href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>. Or, vice-versa. Either will work. Now, though, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of <a href="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical</a>, <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a>’s corporate big brother, is <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/568">bringing Qt software to Ubuntu</a>, long a GNOME stronghold. So far I haven’t heard any shouting from the programmers’ corner, but give it a minute. Shuttleworth made the announcement writing, “As part of our planning for Natty+1 [Ubuntu 11.10], we’ll need to find some space on the CD for Qt libraries, and we will evaluate applications developed with Qt for inclusion on the CD and default install of Ubuntu.” <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-and-shuttleworth-add-qt-to-ubuntu-linux/8102">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-and-shuttleworth-add-qt-to-ubuntu-linux/8102</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Confucius </pre> </body> </html>