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

[From: kate.alhola at nokia.com]

>From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Alberto Garcia [agarcia at igalia.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:38 PM
>To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>Subject: Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?
>
>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.

To avoid re-inventing the wheel again we are providing examples how
you can do things with Qt. If some thing can be done with dozen lines of
Qt code, it just matter of taste, should we provide widget or just
example that you can cut-and-paste. The most important thing is that
we have all basic widgets like finger scrollable lists etc so that 
only action needed is to collect them together.  

If some of these composite widgets are so big problem, we can collect 
these examples as widget library. 

Kate