Qt without X!
03/20/00
Troll Tech, the makers of Qt, have officially announced their project to port their GUI toolkit to the Linux framebuffer and not require X to use. While initially aimed at embedded systems, this also has huge potential for Linux GUI's considering that Qt is the toolkit used by the KDE project. Please note the X Windows System is and will remain to be completely supported by Qt. This just adds the Linux framebuffer to the list of systems such as Windows and X11 that Qt runs. The various versions are all completely source compatible.
In addition to the obvious gains such as much less overhead, you can now do things like antialiasing, alpha channel, and other multimedia oriented graphics much faster than currently possible under X using any toolkit.
A preview will be shown at Software Development 2000 West in San Jose, March 22-24