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completely traditional and they are based on standard Gtk+ widgets.

Of course they are designed to be used on a small, touch screen
device, but what this means in terms of implementation is that we
avoided using interactions, components and sizes that were too small
or too difficult to be used with fingers in a screen like that of the
N900.

We haven't found any particular limitation in Gtk+ that made this more
difficult.

Example: HildonAppMenu is basically a window with two groups of
buttons. There's nothing strange or unexpected here, and certainly
nothing that Gtk+ was not designed to cope with. The work here was
about getting the semantics, layout, sizes, alignments, API, etc
right, not about fighting with any design limitation in Gtk+.

And the same thing applies to all other Hildon widgets.

The importance and the goal of Hildon is to provide a set of essential
widgets so

 a) app developers don't have to waste their time in writing them
    themselves
 b) there is UI consistency between all applications

If there are no Qt equivalents for all Hildon widgets, none of these
two problems are solved, no matter how easy it is for developers to
write their own widgets or how compact the code is.

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