Linux Journal: Visual Development with Qt 3.0

“Only two serious choices for a GUI toolkit are left: Qt and
GTK. Motif still lives on, but nobody uses it for anything new.

“When Qt 3.0 was released in October 2001, it was a singificant
upgrade and was well received. The most important features of Qt
3.0 are the extensions of the utility libraries, the addition of a
rich text edit widget, fabulous support for international fonts and
a vastly improved Qt Designer…

“Personally, I find the most exciting addition to Qt 3.0 to be
improved support for foreign fonts. My own pet project, Kura, is a
application for working with texts in all kinds of languages and
using Unicode fonts was hell. One needed a real Unicode-encoded
font, one that contained all the characters needed. However, Qt 3.0
can combine fonts to fill gaps where the main font lacks glyphs,
making rendering texts much more responsive. Even more exciting is
the improved rendering of complex scripts like Arabic and Burmese.
In this respect, Qt 3.0 is perhaps as capable as Pango will be. You
won’t need to concern yourself with the encoding capabilities of
the font–all you do is select a script. This improvement is mainly
the work of Lars Knoll…”

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