Developer.KDE.org: Integrating Qt/KDE Into GTK+/GNOME Apps | Linux Today

Developer.KDE.org: Integrating Qt/KDE Into GTK+/GNOME Apps

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 13, 2004

“We wanted make the life of the developers who think about
integrating with KDE more closely a lot easier. The basic goals of
the whole undertaking were:

  • “make is incredibly simple to integrate Qt event loop into a
    GTK+ application for the application authors
  • “make it possible for developers to start incrementally
    switching GTK+/GNOME applications to Qt/KDE without loosing any
    functionality

“We achieved those goals with a trivial implementation of a
GSource which integrates Qt event loop into Glib event loop.

“So how to use it in your projects…?”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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