[sateesh]

If you are using QThread for console apps and are not using any other Qt libraries, isn't your console app has an unnecessary dependency on Qt ?

[lmm]

Qt's split up into separate libraries; QtCore is pretty much a general portable utility library like glib or APR, and it's perfectly reasonable for a console app to depend on it.

[smeg]

Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.