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

[From: Alberto Garcia]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:18:37PM +0300, Kate Alhola wrote:

> > > 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.
> > Rarely used widgets? Come on, these are used all throughout
> > the platform. Moreover, even if the time and date pickers
> > were not so commonly used, their style, user experience, and
> > base API (through HildonPickerButton, HildonPickerDialog and
> > HildonTouchSelector[Entry]) are central to the Fremantle UI, and
> > certainly the most recommended starting point for anyone writing
> > an application for Fremantle.

> As I said before, we are doing examples how to do many of these
> things with Qt .

The question is not whether similar widgets can be created using
Qt. Of course they can.

What people are asking here (among other things) is whether there
are Qt widgets similar to HildonAppMenu or HildonPickerButton -which
are absolutely essential for creating Fremantle applications- or
developers are supposed to write them themselves.

Berto