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

[From: Koen Kooi]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

alterego at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> 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.

This sums up my point in a clear and non-offensive way. My apologies to
the other people I seem to have insulted.

regards.

Koen


> _______________________________________________
> maemo-developers mailing list
> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
> 

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFC5VsBMkyGM64RGpERAo8nAKC58V1GYnD0fKgZPC+bJqyg/rD2vQCdFRpT
NJbo2fwxGdM1GV/0SuUVRNw=
=qcfK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----