Qt 4 is a comprehensive, object-oriented development framework that enables development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and server-side applications. When you implement a program with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11), Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows NT/9x/2000/XP by simply compiling the source code for the platform you want. Qt is the basis for the KDE desktop environment, and is also used in numerous commercial applications. This Qt 4 package is created to enable co-existence with Slackware native Qt 3 package; developers should only remember to use versions with "-qt4" suffix (like "qmake-qt4", "assistant-qt4", "designer-qt4", etc.) of programs that exist under same names in Qt 3 (and developers using CMake should be fine without any additional action, because stock CMake is already looking for "qmake-qt4" first).