Qt and RedFlag

About RedFlag Software

• Founded in 2000, provides leading Linux products,

solutions and services.

• Largest Linux vendor in Asia.

• More than 200 employees.

• Meets ISO9001 standards.

• www.redflag-linux.com

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IDC: China Linux Market Share 2007

Global Partner

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Industrial customers

• Government

• Telecommunication

• Insurance

• Education

• Post

• Finance

• Transportation

• Electrical Power

• Media

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Product Lines

Introduce RedFlag Desktop

• OEM Partners：• HP, DELL, Lenovo, TCL, Hasee, Hedy etc..

• Global Markets：• South America：Brazil, Argentina, Portugal etc..• Asia：Russia, India etc..• European：French, Sweden etc..

• Applications:• Open office, Acrobat Reader etc., • Multimedia player, include Real Player, Adobe Flash Player etc..• Email Client, Firefox, MSN, Kget tool etc..• More picture & Graphic tool such as Gwenview

Introduce RedFlag Midinux®

• 1st Intel MID Linux Partner• Research since 2005, 4 years of MID Linux development

experience• First MID Linux product and Best product maturity• Wide ISV support, best MID Linux ecosystem• Partners: Compal, BenQ, Hitachi, Lenovo, Aigo,CHR, SFR,

TIM, .etc

Introduce RedFlag Netbook OS

• Compatible with Intel Moblin v2 standard

• Customized UI based on Qt platform

• Multiple value-added applications written by Qt

Introduce RedFlag Server － Asianux

Vietsoftware

AsianuxA common Linux platform which serves the needs of Asian countries and is jointly developed by Asia's leading Linux vendors, which includes RedFlag in China, Miracle Linux in Japan, Haansoft in Korea,Vietsoftware in Vietnam and WTEC in Thailand. RedFlag is the leader of Asianux.

Asianux ConsortiumAn unique consortium of Asian Linux vendors whose vision is to co-develop unified Linux platform, that is Asianux.

RedFlag and Qt

• RedFlag starts to use Qt from 2000

• RedFlag uses Qt across Asianux Server, RedFlag Desktop and

Embedded products.

• RedFlag chooses Qt/KDE as the default windows system from

beginning and will continue to use Qt/KDE in further

versions/products.

• RedFlag also encourages end-customers/partners/suppliers to select

Qt as the development framework

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Why Qt ?

• Powerful toolkit with rich widgets and libraries

• Well documented

• Plenty of tools to increase development efficiency

• Easy to study, easy to code

• Save cost and faster TTM

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How we use Qt

• Desktop/Server/Embedded GUI system

• Plenty of applications across all products

– System installer

– System configuration tools

– Photo Viewer

– Multimedia center

– Many more …

• Launcher for Netbook

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• Desktop environment

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• System installer

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• System configuration tools

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• Launcher for Netbook

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• OpenDrim (Open Distributed Resource Management)

– Open Source, based on DMTF CIM/WBEM

– Modules: service management, system info, performance watcher,

user/group management, package management, disk space

management…

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How we use Qt (cont.)

• Embedded usage

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• Lottery terminal

• Subway AFC(automatic fare collection system)• Financial terminal

About RedFlag Qt Team

• 90% of engineers has Qt experiences

• Member of KDE community

• Member of Linux Foundation

• Actively maintain and support Chinese Linux community

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RedFlag and Contribution

• RedFlag extremely welcomes and appreciate that Qt added LGPL

license model

• RedFlag also welcomes and appreciates the new Source Code

Management system (gitirious) because it’s much more convenient

and efficient when submitting changes compared to old system.

• More than 40 people in Red Flag have contributed to Qt and KDE

open source community

• RedFlag will continue to contribute to Qt and KDE community

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Contributions submitted by RedFlag

• KDE: Add animation when mouse over quick launch bar• KDE: Add animation in taskbar when new application is launching• KDE: Fix icon and text wrong display in tooltip of taskbar• KDE: Add prompt when user add duplicated app into quick launch bar• KDE: Fix multi-desktop switching not working problem• KDE: Fix floppy mount bug • Qt4: Fix cursor position issue in input method implementation• Qt4: Fix crash problem when input method exit• Qt4: Fix cursor update bug when input method switching• Qt4: Add bold font support to Qt4• Qt4: Add bold font rendering to Qt4

• Many more …

Thank you