[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Nokia developer contact?

From: alterego at sdf.lonestar.org alterego at sdf.lonestar.org
Date: Tue Jul 26 00:24:40 EEST 2005
I really think that this place isn't the right place for asking your 
question. The difficulty involved in porting Qt based apps to Gtk can vary 
a lot. Personally, If I were you and I _really_ wanted to do it. I'd try 
to get libqt to work under the scratchbox environment. Then package it as 
statically linked to your application executables. Hang on, isn't that 
against Trolltechs UA? Anyhow.

  You're part of a business that has chosen to specialise in writing apps 
for embedded devices (I'm guessing here). You chose Qt as your platform,
which was shipped with the zaurus. Now, tell me if I'm wrong. I'm guessing 
you plan on trying to sell applications to users of the N770 when it gets 
shipped. Cool, nothing wrong with that. It isn't however a good idea, in 
my opinion, to write apps that:
  a) Will look crap on stock devices. (Unless Qt can be hildonised)
  b) Do not look like other apps on the device.
  c) Don't interface with the core platform.

  So, personally. Even though the wording by koen may have sounded hard. 
Unless you plan on helping/starting/doing some Qt modifications to make it 
interface, at least a little, with hildon/libosso. You should really get 
your development team to read some docs at 'http://www.gtk.org/'. It took 
me less than a week to get good enough to write apps in Gtk + Hildon + 
libosso.

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