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

[From: Klaus Rotter]

maemo at bitblit.net schrieb:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Klaus Rotter wrote:
> 
>> I really like the look and feel of Maemo, but IMHO Qt's API is superior 
>> to the one of Gtk.
> 
> Ive heard this a few times without people mentioning any speicifcs? In 
> what way is it superior? Are there features in Qt that are not in GTK (and 
> vice versa) ? Could some of those ideas get into GTK (and hence maemo?).

Well, it is (to me) more a question of C vs C++. I started with C about 
twenty years ago and liked it a lot. But some of the features of C++ in 
addition with Qt are IMHO more "elegant", if you use a OO toolkit with 
an OO language like C++. E.g. methods overloading (which is really nice).

But I often think C++ has to many features (for sure I didn't know them 
all) and it is bloated whereas I think I know pretty much features of C.

Maybe the best would be C# (I like C# as a language design better that 
java) with a native gtk# interface and a compiler with compiles this to 
machine code. A gcc# would be nice...

For the features both toolkits provide far more than I need. Gtk has 
done a good job on this in the last years.

Just my two cents, -Klaus

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