Qt Extended (named Qtopia before September 30, 2008) is an application
platform
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Technology
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* Platform game, a genre of video games
* Car platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models
* Weapons platform, a system or ...
for
embedded Linux
Operating systems based on the Linux kernel are used in embedded systems such as consumer electronics (eg. set-top box
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-based mobile computing devices such as
personal digital assistant
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s,
video projector
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s and
mobile phone
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s. It was initially developed by
Qt Software
QT or Qt may refer to:
Arts and media
* QT (musician) (born 1988), pop singer
* '' QT: QueerTelevision'', an LGBT newsmagazine which aired on Canada's CityTV in the 1990s
* Quentin Tarantino (born 1963), American filmmaker
* ''Question Time'' ( ...
, a subsidiary of
Nokia
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. When they cancelled the project the
free software
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portion of it was forked by the community and given the name Qt Extended Improved. The QtMoko Debian-based distribution is the natural successor to these projects as continued by the efforts of the
Openmoko
Openmoko is a discontinued project to create a family of Open-source model, open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification, the operating system (Openmoko Linux), and actual smartphone development implementation like the Neo 19 ...
community.
Features
Qt Extended features:
*
Windowing system
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Integrated development environment
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*
Internationalization and localization
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multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradit ...
*
Personal information manager
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Input method
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s
*
Personalization
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options
*
Productivity
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applications
*
Internet
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applications
*
Java
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integration
*
Wireless
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support
Qt Extended is
dual license
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d under the
GNU General Public License
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