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

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kate Alhola <kate.alhola at nokia.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Alright, so the bottom line is that we can't get the Fremantle
> look-and-feel on Diablo w/ Qt, as it would require providing the
> Fremantle Gtk style on Diablo as well. Shame...
>   
The problem is that many Fremantle stuff is special features of window 
manager.
Dialogs are closed by clicking outside of dialog, not cancel button. 
Stacked
windows needs also window manager support.

Some features like AppMenus etc could be back ported to Diablo version.

Kate