Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS(phoronix.com) Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed.
86 points by sandwichsphinx 78 days ago | 95 comments
Raspberry Pi 3 fastboot in less than 2 seconds (2020)(furkantokac.com) This post tells about my journey of fast-booting a Raspberry Pi 3 (RPI). In addition to that, some optimizations are discussed that can be applied to a Qt (QML) application. In the end, we will have a RPI that boots from power-up to Linux shell in 1.75 seconds, power-up to Qt (QML) application in 2.82 seconds.
109 points by todsacerdoti 101 days ago | 86 comments
Qt 6.8 Released(qt.io) We are thrilled to announce the release of Qt 6.8, packed with support for new desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms, hundreds of improvements, and exciting new features to boost your development experience and meet the needs of demanding applications.
Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged(burkhardstubert.substack.com) Qt sales will try to sell you the Qt for Device Creation (QtDC) license as the care-free option for using Qt on embedded devices. They will also portrait LGPL as a very dangerous and complicated license. I beg to differ - and so will almost all of my customers, readers and listeners.
Understanding the Layout Process in Qt Widgets(felipefarinon.com) UI frameworks are code libraries that provide input management, UI widgets and rendering APIs for application developers. Along the lifecycle of a UI, these widgets have to be shown and arranged on the screen according to the intentions of the developers, and frameworks have evolved some mechanisms for describing this arrangement in an abstract way. Once the descriptions are in place, the toolkit becomes responsible for positioning and resizing the elements. This is what we call layout management.