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

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:33 +0300, Kate Alhola wrote:
> 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.

One small example that's been mentioned already in this thread: How do
we create a HildonAppMenu with Qt? How do we create a
HildonTouchSelector, and/or any of the specific selectors for time or
dates, etc. I believe the answer is that we can't.

The Maemo Qt developers have not yet even decided whether they will add
API to Qt for Maemo-specific UI features, let alone implemented it. It's
OK to like Qt, but there's no need to avoid the actual problems faced by
actual developers.

I guess you could hack something together that looked and felt similar
to the standard hildon widgets, but that's hardly a development
platform.

Of course this doesn't suggest that things will be much better for GTK+
when a Qt-based Maemo API is the primary platform.

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