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

[From: Abdul Mateen]

Yes, I think I should start by developing on Qt for Maemo 5 and onwards, I
am also curious about distribution of applications, like Android has
"Android Market" maemo has "Maemo Select" but I saw one can not push paid
apps into Maemo Select. Any news nokia is going for an app store for Maemo ?


I must say that:
This community is far more superior and have faster responses than Android
community wow, amazing. I am keenly interested in learning Maemo 5+, I have
already setup the environment, I am sure and will hope best that , if I will
stuck at some place this community will help alot!!!!!!!!!!!!



On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:28 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Abdul Mateen wrote:
> > > 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+ ?
> >
> > Objectively, you should probably target Qt for new applications. You can
> > develop well integrated Maemo applications with Qt, and it will be the
> > default toolkit & interface from Maemo 6 onwards.
>
> However, the published Maemo 6 Framework suggests that Maemo 6 will have
> a very different API for the UI, even if it does use general Qt
> conventions:
> http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework
>
> So I doubt that it's very helpful to write an application for Maemo
> using Qt now, other than just to learn about Qt.
>
> I wish they'd publish the API reference online. You can build it
> locally. I can't publish it because I'm afraid that the
> (no-modification, no-distribution) license doesn't allow it.
>
> These blog entries give some small idea of the new API:
> http://zchydem.enume.net/?p=128
> http://zchydem.enume.net/?p=149
> http://zchydem.enume.net/?p=243
>
> > If you're primarily targeting N900 or lower, you should use GTK+ and
> > Hildon, that will be better integrated.
>
>
>
> --
> murrayc at murrayc.com
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>
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