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

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Shawn Gordon wrote:
> Kate, your initial work looks very promising, but I'm curious why 
> you're doing a port of Qt itself instead of Qt/e, which is 
> significantly smaller (less features of course)?  Lorn mentioned 
> qt/e4, I don't know what the state of that is currently, but if that's 
> what get's running in Maemo then we might as well port the UI to 
> Hildon since porting to qt/e4 is probably going to be just about the 
> same effort and we'd rather be native.
The bigest reason to port real Qt instead of Qt/e is that Qt/e uses raw 
framebuffer instead of X11 and in this case
becouse co-existance with other Maemo applications is mandatory we need 
to use X11 version.

Least in case of Cumulus, the porting from Qt/e 2.x to Qt 3.3.2 was 
relativelly easy.

One big problem to port applications to native Hildon/Gtk is that thay 
are at the moment C, not C++
I really like to see C++ bindings for all Maemo stuff.

> Basically there is a huge library of free applications and our 
> commercial applications that run on qt/e2 that ships with all the 
> Zaurus's (Zaurii) so any effort to get some emulation working would be 
> most effective if it targeted the platform that is currently in the 
> largest deployment.  I'm apparently jumping in to this whole topic 
> late, so I don't know what has been discussed before, but I think 
> we're the only hardcore commercial developers of qtopia applications 
> around, so we have some specific ideas in this regard.
May be in case of commercial developper, the porting Qt/e applications 
to native Maemo will be good solution but
mostly in case of many open source applications where resources are more 
limited tq Qtopia emulation will be
easiest way.


Kate