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

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi!

ext Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Nokia has already announced that they're switching from Gtk to Qt
> in Harmattan (which has been a confusing move for many users and
> developers), but I don't know if they plan to keep the same basic
> widgets and UI style that has been designed for Fremantle or not.
> 
> If the plan is to keep more or less the same UI style I'd expect a
> decent, community-supported, release of Gtk/Hildon for Harmattan.

We will start talking about the Harmattan UI plans in the Maemo Summit,
with plenty of time to discuss and develop before any Harmattan final
release gets in the hands of the users.

The Maemo Summit is a also a good place to start discussing the future
of Hildon/GTK+ in the hands of the community. We want to see what is the
community interest and how can we help getting this community support in
the Harmattan time frame.

What about a BOF in the Maemo Summit? I have seen several developers
registered that are familiar with GTK+ and Hildon and even upstream
maintainers. Some of them are currently working in Fremantle, and will
probably keep working during the maintenance period. There are also
Nokia developers registered that are working on the Harmattan UI
framework based on Qt, the Qt developers themselves... I bet that you
could share a room for one hour and get some ideas started, then dinner,
beers and a draft plan.  :)

Our aim is to pull Qt to Fremantle to offer a beta path to get
developers into Harmattan, and also offer a continuity path for those
developers preferring to push their software based on GTK+ forward. It
can be done.

So... who submits the proposal for the BOF in the maemo Summit?

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia