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

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Attila Csipa wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 12:26:01 Ville M. Vainio wrote:
>   
>> it would be nice if the Qt apps written for Fremantle would look
>> identical in Diablo - i.e. implement it so that they would use
>> "fremantle style" in Diablo. I don't think people care as much about
>> "retaining a consistent feel", as they do about having stuff they can
>> comfortably use with their fingers.
>>     
>
> If this was just about button/dialog styling, it would be relatively easy, but 
> there are differences that would make this a very awkward thing. While I 
> understand the request from a pragmatic user standpoint, I can't really 
> support it considering the cons (inconsistency, more work, potentially 
> breaking existing apps and having things that simply won't work right in a 
> Diablo context).
>   
The Diablo port is separate older branch. Answer to this question depends
a lot of what your application is doing. HildonAppMenu, Stacked Windows
etc are not implemented in Diablo port.

If you just talk about "vanilla" application, it just takes your GTK+ 
Style and renders
widgets using that style. Using new special features needs to some 
change to your
code and because there are not equivalent counterparts in Diablo, this 
limits
some amount portability but this is exactly same with GTK.

If you just port Diablo QT application to Fremantle it works but it 
looks a like Diablo application
with Fremantle styles.

Kate