[maemo-developers] New apps for fremantle with Qt?

[From: Kate Alhola]

Soini Mox (EXT-Movial/Helsinki) wrote:
>
>     ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     2009/9/4 Kate Alhola <kate.alhola at nokia.com>:
>>       
>>>     Current version is 4.5.2, soon 4.5.3  .  Qt is already in Fremantle
>>>     repository,
>>>     so installing Qt applications to N900 is already totally transparent to end
>>>     user
>>>     because application installer picks up needed dependencies.
>>>     And also, there are  Qt core libraries already in flash.
>>>         
>>
>>     if I write a graphical (with UI) application in Qt, does it look much
>>     different from another one written using Hildon? What are the biggest
>>     differences or not yet supported UI features?
>>       
>     It will kook same than Hildon. We have as example Hildon style and
>     Hildon imput method there.
>      
>
> With all due respect, I would like to see more "beef" to this claim. 
> For example in terms of links to apps, or just screenshots.
>  
> There are extremely few QT applications to try out in Maemo 5. And so 
> far, I haven't seen one that would really "feel" like true Maemo 5 
> application.
>  
> ...
>  
> As a parallel, a standard Gnome/GTK application, when directly ported 
> (minimal effort) to Maemo 5, the UI of the application will feel more 
> like Maemo 4 (i.e. N810 and friends).
>  
> It takes much more effort to make that application really Maemo 5 - 
> finger usable, with finger sized buttons, hildon picker buttons, edit 
> mode views, pannable dialogs etc.
Qt takes exactly same styles that are for Maemo5 GTK applications 
including button sizes etc,
There is kinetic finger scroll.

>
> Compare for example screenshots of Modest email client between Maemo 4 
> and Maemo 5, to get an idea of the differences:
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Porting_Software/Redesigning_From_Maemo_4_to_Maemo_5
>  
> Technically, you are able to run the Maemo 4 Modest UI on Maemo 5 too 
> (maybe just a recompilation). However, it really does not *feel* like 
> Maemo 5 application.
>  
> So while _technically_ QT apps work on Fremantle, I'd like to hear and 
> see whether it is really possible to provide a true Maemo 5 user 
> experience when using QT as the toolkit.
Toolkit, either GTK or Qt can't fix the UI design. If you don't make 
finger friendly design, tool kit can't make
your application to do it.  I just don't see any reason why you can't 
make least as good  UI design with Qt than you can
do with GTK+/Hildon. As addition of these traditional widgets, in Qt you 
also get QGraphicsview and
animation framework that allows you to do similar effects in application 
that are provided by Clutter.

Kate
>  
> BR,
>  
>          Mox
>  
>