<p>According to the Wikipedia article:"The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked appealing in Haavard's Emacs font, and "t" was inspired by Xt, the X toolkit"</p>

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2013-05-19T07:26:26.760Z
2013-05-19T07:26:26.760Z
melon
<p>Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++. It's is used for UI in Bitcoin-Qt. See <a href="http://qt-project.org/">http://qt-project.org/</a></p>

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2013-05-19T07:45:15.550Z
it could be useful to add the link to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29
neofutur
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Alexey Kalmykov
<p>just a simple question: what does qt in bitcoin-qt stand for?</p>

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What does qt in bitcoin-qt stand for?
vanjan
# What does qt in bitcoin-qt stand for?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-11)

just a simple question: what does qt in bitcoin-qt stand for?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-05-11. Score: 14 | Accepted answer

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++. It's is used for UI in Bitcoin-Qt. See <http://qt-project.org/>

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: it could be useful to add the link to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_%28framework%29  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2013-05-19. Score: 3

According to the Wikipedia article:"The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked appealing in Haavard's Emacs font, and "t" was inspired by Xt, the X toolkit"


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