After six years of Qt 4, Nokia wants to modernize its toolkit for 2012 with the Qt 5 release.

"In the face of constant change, both in software technology itself and in people's attitudes toward it, long-term software projects need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. I'm encouraged to see the GNOME community taking up this challenge, responding to the evolving needs of users and questioning the status quo," says Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO.

The first Qt Contributors’ Summit is scheduled to be held at the ParkInn Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany on June 16-18, 2011.

“It's not on the Natty plan for now, but we'll be evaluating the progresses and will consider adding a 3rd session option if the development goes as planned,” said David Barth, Desktop Experience Team, Engineering Manager at Canonical.

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, recorded a short demonstration of the current state of Unity.

KDE continues KOffice development through the new Calligra Suite project.

The popular, Ubuntu 10.10 based, Linux distribution released Linux Mint 10 today.