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

[From: ext-mox.soini at nokia.com]

>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 08:01
>> > However, if you want to have the exact same user experience as the
>> > preinstalled Maemo 5 applications have (as seen in all youtube videos and
>> > the SDK), then you have much easier time and faster development with the
>> > gtk-based hildon widgets in Maemo 5.
>>
>> This doesn't give much of a transition plan for developers, or the
>> chance to fix things in the Qt API whilst it's in "community support"
>> mode.
>
>Before people start jumping into long term conclusions, I'd rather encourage people to start documenting to wiki.maemo.org, what is known about QT in Maemo 5 and build a better understanding collectively there.
>
>I don't know about QT any more than what is publicly informed. Which is very little.
>
>Lets move from the guesswork here to documenting what is really known to wiki.


Big thanks to Kate for the clarifying post. I'm sorry I misunderstood the purpose of QT mobility. Seems it's not about widgets, but about platform components like Contacts and Services.

I would caution against too easily dismissing Hildon Pickers as trivial "composites" that app developers can implement. 
At least in Hildon widgets, Claudio, Berto and others have spent huge amount of time to get the pickers work "just right". You can see it yourself in the hildon git changelog.
The "combobox" in Linux desktops is pretty much a subset of the hildon pickers (in terms of funtionality, not directly in terms of actual UI elements). So if pickers would be trivial, then why would there be a need to provide a combobox in the standard toolkit?

I managed to finally get a QT app running (qt-maemo-example from fremantle extras-devel). Based on that experience, I updated the QT wiki page at:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Qt4_Hildon#Limitations

I hope you guys will make additions and corrections to there, so we have more information easily available.

Thanks!

       Mox