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

[From: Lorn Potter]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:26 am, Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 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)?
>
> Maemo (and therefore the Nokia 770 device) uses X11 and there is no place
> for Qt/e which does not use X. Qt/e emulation to get some software running
> on the maemo and the current maemo compliant device is a great idea if it
> will work, if you ask me. However, replacing the X11 with Qt/e / qtopia
> would be really bad idea (IMHO).
>
> I have compiled both Qt3/X11 and Qt4/X11 for maemo. I haven't tried to put
> the Qt4 to the device yet since it is quite huge with the default options.

Qt4 still is new and does not have all the features configuring that the 
previous qt libraries have.



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