WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit’s HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. As part of KDE framework KHTML was based on Qt but during their porting efforts Apple’s engineers made WebKit toolkit independent. Qt WebKit is a project aiming at porting this fabulous engine back to Qt.
The project aims to improve the user experience on netbook devices using Linux and KDE as the desktop environment. To create a unique experience, a new desktop shell was created based on Plasma, the next generation desktop shell, but always focusing on improving the way a user interacts with his device and how this device interacts with the world around him.
Plasma’s soul resides on Plasmoids and so it ought to be treated with love. Today’s Plasma widget explorer is useful, but not suitable. This project aims to propose and develop a new interface to be used by hundreds of users every day, and deliver it beautifully – modern, plasma-like, with better organized information, intuitive and beautiful. A brand new Plasma Applet Browser.
Author: Ana Cecília Martins Barbosa (CIn-UFPE, Brazil)
Abil is an instant messenger for Maemo developed in Qt. It’s intention is to explore new user experience, and also serve as a test case for upcoming technologies in Qt framework. It makes use of Animation API (part of Qt 4.6) and the ItemViews-NG project by Qt Software, which is a research project for the next generation container widgets for Qt framework. It is being developed by openBossa developers and students at Fucapi.
Edje is a declarative language that simplifies the development of complex interfaces separating the UI design from the application logic, by providing animations, layouts and simple scripts in a very small memory footprint. The original Edje is part of the EFL .
QEdje is a port of Edje to the Qt framework, providing an alternative way to design user interfaces in Qt by using a declarative language.
The PySide project provides LGPL-licensed Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. PySide Qt bindings allow both free open source and proprietary software development and ultimately aim to support all of the platforms as Qt itself.
