What does Qt stand for?

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I am a fan of Qt and the more i learn about it, the more i love it. I don't know why it is named Qt. I searched it but all of the results where irrelevant. Most were acronyms like "Quality Time" and some were "cutie" or "quiet".

I thought may be it is a funny acronym like "GNU" which is GNU's not UNIX. Either way it is such a cool and cute name. Anybody know about it?

Zlatomir · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-12T19:31:53.037

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Quote from the first edition of C++ gui programming with Qt 4:

The letter ‘Q’ was chosen as the class prefix because the letter looked beautiful in Haavard’s Emacs font. The ‘t’ was added to stand for “toolkit”, inspired by Xt, the X Toolkit.

*Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng began the development of Qt

The same piece of history is on wikipedia

edited Mar 12 '14 at 19:31

answered Mar 12 '14 at 19:24

Zlatomir

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Cool. So Q was only chosen because it's cute :) – Nejat Mar 12 '14 at 19:28
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@Nejat: Yes, and "Qt" is also pronounced "Cute" ;) – JKSH Mar 13 '14 at 00:15

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '16 at 11:18

"The letter ‘Q’ was chosen as the class prefix because the letter looked beautiful in Haavard’s Emacs font. The ‘t’ was added to stand for “toolkit”, inspired by Xt, the X Toolkit. The company was incorporated on March 4, 1994, originally as Quasar Technologies, then as Troll Tech, and today as Trolltech."

So it should be Quasar Toolkit.

References: 1.https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130907190045AAZZ9uM 2.http://formfull.in/qt

What does Qt stand for?

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