[maemo-developers] [PMX:#] Re: [maemo-developers] Qt + KDE port

[From: Kate Alhola]

Mattias Schlenker wrote:
> Lorn Potter wrote:
>
>> Actually, Trolltech does not worry about it very much at all, we
>> don't really see free software as competition. If we did, we wouldn't
>> give our source code away.
>> We just think there is a better solution already out there, that
>> requires much less work to deploy, and find it curious.
>>
> There is never a better solution to any point. Qt/Qtopia is a good
> platform as well as Gtk/Gnome is. A strong point for using Gtk for
> Maemo might be the LGPL: if someone wants to develop a closed source
> application for maemo, he can do it without having to buy a commercial
> developers license first. Since Nokia wants to sell the device and not
> the development toolkit, this could be a good argument for the
> survival of the platform and the device itself. Sometimes software is
> just a feature of hardware...

There are good points in both of, GTK and QT/Qtopia, they are both
activelly developped and living well. The Maemo in 770 has really well
designed GUI that looks really good and it has also some good
innovations. Maybe it has some extra pixels somewhere but as
result is much better usability. Not only for developpers but especially
to end users. As my personal opinion, I like
more to use C++ for GUI coding ( even C++ is not my personal absolute
favor, i mostly work with kernel stuff and with C ).
Qtopia with embedded qt may be good for very slow devices where X11
makes too much overhead but in 770 X11 was
on excelent choice. It gives us to freedom to run in single device both
GTK and QT clients.

At the moment there are lot of good programs made for Qtopia and I think
that Maemo-QT and Maemo qtopia emulation
layers would be good idea. It would be good idea to intergrate maemo
look and  feel, least input methods and
skins to QT/X11.. 

I understand, that there are memory limitations etc in current 770
devices. Still libqt3.so is mot a so big monster at all.

Kate