Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by int_19h on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:21PM (#14046909)

I think it's a combination of largely unrelated historical trends (dating to way back, when Qt was GPL-only, and even before that, when it had its own incompatible license).

That said, it's interesting that most commercial desktop software for Linux these days seems to be written in Qt, not Gtk. Also, while this is anecdotal, most new projects (as in, started recently, as opposed to old software having new releases) seem to be trending Qt in my experience. So there's a weird divergence here between the DE and the apps.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by skierpage on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:48AM (#14049415)

KDE's Plasma shell uses Qt QML to make flexible layout apps that work with touch and keyboard+mouse, just like Ubuntu Phone/Unity 8. Plasma Mobile is KDE's attempt to leverage that into an open source phone OS. Canonical didn't seem interested in working with KDE despite the common tech base. I wonder if Canonical will continue development of any of its Ubuntu Phone/Unity 8 apps, the whole point of convergence was they would work on desktop as well.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pksadiq on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:25PM (#14047204)

> I think it's a combination of largely unrelated historical trends ...

Some of the facts are still true. Say for example, Qt is now licensed under LGPLv3, which several corporate hate. GTK+ is licensed under LGPLv2.1+.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by pawadu on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:07AM (#14049494)

How is LGPLv3 different from the usual binary only libraries the corporate buy??

Also, there is a paid Qt license if you don't like *GPL.

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