[maemo-developers] Qt or GTK+ which is better for developement

[From: Abdul Mateen]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Abdul Mateen <abmateen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the quick answers, I got a initial idea to start with Qt
> development for N900 and onwards. I think Qt should be the official UI
> framework because of its designers support also, it is easy and
> straightforward for development in C/C++.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Paul Drummond <paul.drummond at iode.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi Abdul,
>>
>> I am in the same position - I also have Android experience and am new to
>> Maemo.
>>
>> I have been doing a bit of research over the last few days and my feeling
>> at the momemt is that the Maemo community is in a state of transistion so
>> it's a confusing time for new developers to jump in!
>>
>> Currently, GTK+ is the official tookit for Maemo 5 and Qt is a "community
>> supported" alternative.  But for Maemo 6, the roles will be swapped - Qt
>> will become the official UI framework and GTK+ will still be available as a
>> "community supported" alternative.
>>
>> Qt is the preferred UI framework because of it's cross-platform support.
>> The idea being you will be able to develop a single app and deploy it on
>> many mobile platforms (at least Symbian and Maemo).
>>
>> So what is the recommended approach if you want to develop a N900 app
>> right now?  Well, Qt 4.6 is still only a technoloy preview for Maemo but it
>> sounds as if it's still the recommended framework for new development.  Can
>> a more experience maemo confirm this please?
>>
>> 2009/12/3 Abdul Mateen <abmateen at gmail.com>
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>> I am a newbie for maemo , having extensive experience developing for
>>> Android platform, I want to ask here, should I start with Qt ? or GTK+ or
>>> they will have the same impact, is there any difference in between the two
>>> considered with maemo development, officially GTK+ is supported? can we do
>>> everything with Qt we  can do with GTK+ ?
>>>
>>> Thank You,.
>>>
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