[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RFC: Qtopia Nokia N770 (maemo) porting layer

[From: Florian Boor]

Hi!

Holger Freyther wrote:
>     -In the future we should use Qt4 but that would require more porting
>          of the applications.

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to use Qt2 first and then port to Qt4.
Wouldn't it be easier to port the UIs to Hildon/GTK+ instead of porting them to
Qt2/X11, then to Qt2/X11+maemo and then to Qt4?
Both toolkits offer comprehensive widget sets and related tools, i can't imagine
that it is that complicated.

Basically the idea is not that bad because of the huge amount of existing
applications and because many developers are used to Qt. But i have some doubts
if it is really feasible. The major problem i see on mobile devices is a huge
memory usage overhead because you need two complete UI toolkits in memory.

>         -People enjoying using maemo

I'm convinced this will be the easiest task :-)

Greetings

Florian

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