[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Gtk vs. Qt

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Maemo platform I regard Qt a bit like libSDL as I think both of them
> to have similar problems:
> - User interface looks different (different colors, pixmaps, font family
>   & size and they don't change when device theme is changed)
> - User interface works differently (no special widgets for touchscreen
>   usage, uses menubar to open menus instead of a titlebar)
> - Do not integrate with the input method (in Maemo this is integrated
>   with the individual widget usage so that input method comes up
>   automatically only when needed and goes away when not needed)

Will the final image have a switch/setting to disable this? I'm planning
to use a bluetooth keyboard with the 770 and I would like the virtual
keyboard to stay down when using the bluetooth one.

regards,

Koen


> - Naively takes pointer/keyboard grabs "unnecessarily" and/or doesn't
>   release them when required (in some rare cases could end up locking the UI)
> - User cannot switch to SDL application through Task Navigator
>   (should be easiest to fix)
> 
> I.e. there would be quite a lot work to integrate Qt library properly
> to the Maemo platform in addition to it taking a lot of additional
> memory as Qt libraries wouldn't be shared with the other applications.
> 
> It should be easy to test above issues with the x86 SDK.  From the X mailing
> lists I've noticed that Trolltech people are also using Xephyr. :)
> 
> Then there's of course the thing that well behaving applications should
> implement some callbacks e.g. for UI state saving so that memory usage
> can be better managed.
> 
> 
> 	- Eero
> 
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