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		wheels on May 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource Qt's a pretty general toolkit for C++ applications – a pretty huge chunk of it has nothing to do with GUI programming (and what, for instance, the KDE desktop and associated tools are built on): http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/classes.html It was fairly recent that Nokia bought them; before that Trolltech was an independant company.

ovi256 on May 7, 2010 [–]

It's a kickass toolkit (and my toolkit of choice) for cross-platform desktop apps. Just keep in mind that it's GPL licensed for free apps and that the commercial license is expensive for a one-man shop.

noste on May 7, 2010 | [–]

Qt is also available under LGPL 2.1. See http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing for details.

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