[maemo-developers] What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

[From: maemo at bitblit.net]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:

> Don't fool yourself. Qt is to Nokia what Linux was to IBM: the only
> way to unify the development of various hardware platform. You can bet
> it's no fun to develop libs to s40 and s60, so why leave internet
> tablets out of this?

Why bother with getting Hildon changes accepted upstream then? Why bother 
with Gnome Mobile? This might be just a way of hedging bets.

> I don't see any action in the near future, but I'd like to see all the
> platforms converging to Qt. Qt have good bindings for Python and Java,

Personally, I dont like Java. Dont like Python much either.
But there seems to be plenty of Python apps in maemo.

> at least. They provide excellent abstraction layer, portability and
> many features, like Phone, Bluetooth and other stacks ready and
> integrated. It can also use Qvfb or X11, with almost the same code, in
> the end it's less or same work than having GTK and Hildon supported.

Or it could mean putting some of those ideas into Hildon.

> Ok, don't understand me wrong or even say that GTK or Gnome provide
> some of these things. Yes, I know, we have webkit-gtk, gstreamer,
> cairo, abiword, gnumeric and much more, but going Qt is not the end of
> the world (but it's not _the_ solution either).

I hope not...


-- 
Aj.