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

[From: Mathieu Blondel]

> If you plan to stay in the business as career software developer, then
> the ability and willingness to retool yourself with new language/OS is a
> must. Otherwise, you have a slim chance to make a living for yourself
> and your family. Let me see, Algol/IBM360, Fortran/IBM360, PL/1/IBM360,
> Pascal/PC, C/Win,UNIX, C++/Win,UNIX,Embedded, Java/* - you get the
> picture. And this barely covers first 15 years of paid experience. The
> army of software developers is expotentially growing in east europe,
> asia, china, india, and here is US and writing new languages has become
> extremely easy compare to the old days.

For me the problem is not that I don't want to learn a new framework
or language because I like to do so. My problem is that I'm writing my
software as a hobby and I already spent quite some time writing custom
GTK widgets for it (note that I chose GTK on purpose because I knew my
code would run on Maemo). A Qt rewrite would be a major task for me
and is out of question as long as this project remains a hobby. Also,
my personal experience is that the UI parts of my software require
more code than the business logic parts. So switching to Qt is not
something I can do overnight. I can just hope that the GTK community
support will be good enough.