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/*!
    \group qttools
    \title Qt's Tools

    Qt is supplied with several command line and graphical tools to
    ease and speed the development process. Each tool is listed here
    with a link to its documentation.

    \table
    \header \o Tool \o Description
    \row \o \l{Qt Designer Manual}{Qt Designer}
         \o Create forms visually.
    \row \o \l{Qt Assistant Manual}{Qt Assistant}
         \o Quickly find the help you need.
    \row \o \l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist, lupdate, lrelease, lconvert}
         \o Translate applications to reach international markets.
    \row \o \l{qmake Manual}{qmake}
         \o Create makefiles from simple platform-independent project files (\c .pro files).
    \row \o \l{The Virtual Framebuffer}{qvfb}
         \o Run and test embedded applications on the desktop.
    \row \o \l{makeqpf}
         \o Create pre-rendered fonts for embedded devices.
    \row \o \l{moc}{Meta-Object Compiler (moc)}
         \o Generate meta-object information for QObject subclasses.
    \row \o \l{User Interface Compiler (uic)}
         \o Generate C++ code from user interface files.
    \row \o \l{Resource Compiler (rcc)}
         \o Embed resources into Qt applications during the build process.
    \row \o \l{Configuring Qt}{Configuring Qt (qtconfig)}
         \o X11-based Qt configuration tool with online help.
    \row \o \l{Fine-Tuning Features in Qt}{Configuring Qt Embedded (qconfig)}
         \o Qt Embedded (Linux and Windows CE) configuration tool.
    \row \o \l{Examples and Demos Launcher}
         \o A launcher for Qt's Examples and Demonstration programs.
    \row \o \l{qt3to4 - The Qt 3 to 4 Porting Tool}
         \o A tool to assist in porting applications from Qt 3 to Qt 4.
    \row \o \l{QtDBus XML compiler (qdbusxml2cpp)}
         \o A tool to convert D-Bus interface descriptions to C++ source code.
    \row \o \l{D-Bus Viewer}
         \o A tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.
    \endtable

*/