[maemo-developers] Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Attila Csipa<maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
> On Monday 06 July 2009 17:23:25 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>> As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++.
>> And I don't want to rely too much on Python.
>>
>> Also my personal interest in Maemo has been Xournal as eveyone knows,
>> but if porting it to Qt involves learning C++.. brrr...
>
> The level of C++ required to do Qt is minimal, really, in fact, if you already
> did GTK+, I'd go almost as far and say it's mostly simple syntax difference
> (with the usual amount of C vs C++ compiler caveats, of course). That's one
> of the reasons I feel C bindings never really took off for Qt. Of course if
> you DO know C++, you'll be able to use Qt more efficiently. Note - I'm saying
> this about using the toolkit from C or C++, there are differences between the
> toolkits themselves, and these are FAR FAR bigger than using them from C or
> C++.

The Qt class library is really nice and certainly fun using. I think
the abstraction
level offered by QT and the different collection classes make it really usable.
Indeed for most thing you don't really have to understand the every c++ feature.

The example are very good, the documentation is excellent and the qtcreator gui
combined with qmake takes the  whole experience fun. I would be quite happy
so see more Qt software around and would not be so sad to see gtk go.
I am not affiliated with Qt. The One thing I really missed was proper gstreamer
integration

Greetings