Qt 3.2 beta Released

e8johan writes "The toolkit that KDE is based upon, Trolltech's Qt , has been released in a new version. Version 3.2 has better database support, better support for porting Motif applications, and more. The original announcement can be found in the Trolltech newsroom , and the download is in Trolltech's download area ."

Speed of Open source

[cbcbcb]

KDE has already benefitted [kde.org] from this release!

KDE 3.2

[Tyreth]

Anyone have a rough idea how close the KDE team is to starting the release schedule for 3.2?

Re:KDE 3.2

[oliverthered]

kde 3.2 progress [kde.org]
Given the todo's are about twice the sice of the finished's I'd guess about 3-4 months. (3.1 was released 2 months ago i think...)

'KDE 3.2 release cycle'

[oliverthered]

Here's the thread [kde.org] on the KDE 3.2 release cycle.

Couldn't find any solid information about the expected release date!

Features

[makapuf]

the new features include : (from QT site)

The SQL support in Qt 3.2 includes drivers for IBM's DB2, complete support for stored procedures, and improved connection parameters.

The addition of Indic script input and rendering means that Qt 3.2 now supports all major script-based languages, including advanced languages such as Hindi and Bengali. Qt 3.2 is also more efficient at font rendering.

Qt Designer has two new, major features added in 3.2: A menu editor that provides the ability to add, edit and remo

Qt is

[floydman]

very well designed. I have been using it for a couple years now. The signal/slot mechanism(which i belive is abstracted from borland's VCL structure) is quite impressing. Provides easy access to the methods of ur components... well, propably most of you know this already :-)

Re:Qt is

[Arandir]

That's irrelevent when 99% of your target developers do not know Objective C.

Re:Qt is

[The Bungi]

It seems the integrated Slashdot spell checker is offline:

believe, not 'belive'

impressive, not 'impressing'

It provides, not 'Provides'

your, not 'ur'

probably, not 'propably'

Quick, someone email Taco! Oh, wait. Nevermind.