[maemo-developers] Porting Maemo to MeeGo

[From: kate.alhola at nokia.com]

>________________________________________
>From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] on behalf of ext Dave Neary [dneary at maemo.org]
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:27 PM
>To: Michael Cronenworth
>Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>Subject: Re: Porting Maemo to MeeGo
>
>Hi,
>
>Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> AFAIK GTK is still around in MeeGo and will still be supported. I know
>> Nokia wants everyone to use Qt, but not everyone wants to use Qt.
>
>GTK is still around & part of the stack - so guaranteed to be present.
>Going from there to "supported" is a leap.

Let's clarify little bit. It is different running to get applications running and get them 
having good consistent UI with other system applications. 

Because MeeGo devices will have real WoW effect UI, to get your application succeed,
i recommend to invest designing UI that matches to rest of system.

I don't know status of
MeeGo Hildon port but there will be some difficulties . In Maemo 5 most of animations
and transitios were made with window manager, in MeeGo they are made with UI toolkit
except application switching that is made with window manager/compositor. That's
mostly problem with sliding/stacked windows. Also virtual keyboard implementation differs. 

I strongly recommend any application developer looking Qt Qml ( Qt Quick ) and Qt-Components
for UI implementation. Depenging of GTK+ application how much actual application logic
can be reused.
 
Kate

>Cheers,
>Dave.
>
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