Episode 856 transcript

FLOSS-856 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week Maurice Kalinowski joins me and we talk about cute or qt. If you've been mispronouncing it for forever, like the rest of us have, it's the framework that runs just about anywhere and lets you build just about anything from phone applications to a full blown desktop environment. We're looking at you, KDE. This is Floss weekly, episode 856, recorded Tuesday, November the 25th. Cute. Fix it, please. My mom is calling. Hey folks, it is time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. And today we're talking about qt. That is the, well, it's a library that makes a lot of things run. It runs on Windows and Linux, like Mac. I'm pretty sure there at least was for a while. There may still be an Android and iOS port of it. It's one of those toolkits that lets you ideally write code once and run it in a whole bunch of different places. And it's got an interesting relationship with other projects that we love, like KDE and some other things on Linux. And so we reached out and we were put in contact with Maurice Kalinowski, who is a project director there at the QT Group. And he has done p…