Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

Hi there,

I've just read, that Maemo will switch to Qt for the new Maemo 6
version. Well, I personally think this is a good decision.

Quim Gil told this at his keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
If this is true, what will happen to the gtk toolkit? Will it stay on
the tablet? When will it be obsolete?

Is it planned, that the Qt shipped with Maemo 5 will be compatible (at
least source code) with the one shipped with Maemo 6?

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Klaus Rotter * klaus at rotters dot de * www.rotters.de

Hi,

2009/7/5 Klaus Rotter <klaus@rotters.de>:
> Hi there,
> Quim Gil told this at his keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
> If this is true, what will happen to the gtk toolkit? Will it stay on
> the tablet? When will it be obsolete?

gtk will be available for maemo 6, but it will be "community
maintained" just like Qt is now

> Is it planned, that the Qt shipped with Maemo 5 will be compatible (at
> least source code) with the one shipped with Maemo 6?

why not?

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Found some infos at talk.maemo.org:

Quim Gil wrote:
> GTK+/Hildon won't be used by the applications shipped with Harmattan
> out of the box and therefore won't be pre-installed.

This seems, that at least for new applications gtk has no future on the
internet tablets. Thats quite brave to drop gtk more or less completly.
But, at least this shows that there is a future for maemo. Wondering
what will happen to Qtopia. I don't think that Nokia will support two UI
for Qt (Maemo and Qtopia).

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Klaus Rotter * klaus at rotters dot de * www.rotters.de

On 5 Jul 2009, at 21:46, Andrea Grandi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/7/5 Klaus Rotter <klaus@rotters.de>:
>> Hi there,
>> Quim Gil told this at his keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
>> If this is true, what will happen to the gtk toolkit? Will it stay on
>> the tablet? When will it be obsolete?
>
> gtk will be available for maemo 6, but it will be "community
> maintained" just like Qt is now

Indeed. It is mentioned on one of the slides Quim linked to.

Regards,
Jamie.
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Hi,

as I know Qtopia isn't anymore so I think this is also your answer:

Espoo, Finland—30-September-2008

Qt Software today announced that Qtopia, a platform for creating user
interfaces and applications for advanced consumer electronics based on
Linux, has been renamed and launched as Qt Extended 4.4.

March 3, 2009 — Oslo, Norway — Qt Software today announced that the
product, Qt Extended, will be discontinued as a stand-alone product.


Marco

Klaus Rotter wrote:
> Found some infos at talk.maemo.org:
>
> Quim Gil wrote:
> > GTK+/Hildon won't be used by the applications shipped with Harmattan
> > out of the box and therefore won't be pre-installed.
>
> This seems, that at least for new applications gtk has no future on the
> internet tablets. Thats quite brave to drop gtk more or less completly.
> But, at least this shows that there is a future for maemo. Wondering
> what will happen to Qtopia. I don't think that Nokia will support two UI
> for Qt (Maemo and Qtopia).
>
>