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+From: http://www.uq.edu.au/~cswallis/nhqt/
+
+NetHack QT - What is it?
+
+NetHack is a Free graphical one-player roleplaying game with a
+highly modular window system interface supporting TTY, VGA, Mac,
+Amiga, and other displays. Qt is a graphical user interface toolkit.
+So, "NetHack with Qt interface" is a version of NetHack which has
+a user interface module written using the Qt toolkit.
+
+How is it better than the plain X11 interface?
+The Qt interface has these extra features: 
+
+o   Tiles (graphics) in the inventory and other item-menu windows. 
+o   The player cursor changes colour as your relative hit-points drop. 
+o   The message window greys-out older message. 
+o   The item menus allow a count (click to left of icon - hidden feature). 
+o   Icons for the major attributes and player states. 
+o   Menus (only needed by newbie dungeon fodder). 
+o   Variable size fonts and tiles. 
+o   More space for the map as messages and status are side-by-side. 
+o   You rarely need to put the mouse in a pop-up to interact with it. 
+o   Macros - hidden feature - F1=multi-rest F2=multi-search F3=try-it 
+o   It is much easier to code, so new feature-requests are more easily done. 
+o   Sound support.
+
+The standard NetHack X11 interface is written in C using the Athena
+Widgets toolkit. The strongest reason for doing it that way was
+that NetHack is one of the most incredibly portable programs of
+any kind, and the Athena Widget Set is also available for free on
+a large number of X11 implementations. The problem is that Athena
+Widgets (also known as Xaw) is very ugly, difficult to program in,
+and buggy. The Qt interface toolkit on the other hand is written
+in C++ and is freely portable to any X11 implementation, but is
+less widespread, making it inappropriate for the standard NetHack
+X11 interface.
+
+Sound support
+
+The QtNetHack patch includes experimental support for sounds to be
+played based on messages. For example, you can arrange for a gong
+to sound when the message "... cursing shoplifter..." appears. The
+system maps any regular expression (can be just some text) to a
+sound. The QtNetHack windowport is the only one providing this
+method, and it does so using the NAS (Network Audio System) . As
+distributed, the patch enables this feature - see include/config.h
+once you have applied the patch, and look for USER_SOUNDS for an
+explanation of how to disable it if you want to.
+
+You will also want to collect some sound samples to try it out,
+and a .nethackrc attaching them to messages. This package contains
+the .au files that I use, and my ~/.nethackrc. Many of the sounds
+are from the nhsound package, which you can find referenced on the
+NetHack Home Page.