Trolltech has announced the release of version 1.1 of the Qt Palmtop Environment, a leading GUI software package for embedded Linux released under the GPL. The key feature of the new version is a simple build system and development documentation to allow any developer to add their own applications to the QPE. Three new applications have also been added: Spreadsheet, Wordgame, and Terminal. Download details are here.

The Qt Palmtop Environment is a complete Windowing System, Window Manager, Application Launcher, Input Methods (virtual keyboard, etc.), commercial-grade GUI toolkit, and a collection of useful applications, all written using the Qt API — the same API found on Qt/X11 and Qt/Windows. But the Qt Palmtop Environment uses Qt/Embedded which works directly with the Linux framebuffer, so there is no need for an X11 server, no extra client libraries, no separate window manager — “no “layer-upon-layer of toolkits”

 
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