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

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:00:05PM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> That is very important, since some of those widgets are completely
> essential for Maemo 5.
>
> If people take a look at the N900 videos that have been uploaded
> to YouTube lately and see how the applications look and feel, it's
> obvious that it's not possible to obtain a similar result without Qt
> equivalents for these new widgets.
>
>   
Let's get some amount bag to roots. Qt is not GTK+, Qt has it's own
widgets but adopts GTK style.  Buttons etc looks exactly same
Lot's of  Maemo 5 user experience like  task switching is done
by window manager.  Qt has kinetic scroll etc.

I have used Maemo 5 and N900 since early prototypes  and
i don't see lot of important frequently used functionality
missing from Qt. I admit that some rarely used widgets like
earlier mentioned date and time picker are missing etc.

We are working to do more examples how to do certain
actions with Qt.

Some features like compositor bypass etc non standard X11
window manager extensions require few line of code in application
to activate these features.

Kate