CTIA and Qt
This is a bit old news. We announced the WIMAX version on the N810 in CTIA already 2 weeks ago. And we received a CTIA WIRELESS 2008® E-TECH AWARD for the best Fashion & Lifestyle Product.
Wow, I feel pretty fashionable now!
We are also making progress with some longer term plans and thoughts. We plan to make the maemo platform even more powerful and extend its capabilities further. In addition to GTK+, we intend to provide a Qt-based application development environment to the maemo platform. We will therefore hire people with knowledge of GTK+/C and/or Qt/C++.
I’ll keep you posted. Take a look at the Nokia jobs and the maemo.org, too.
Wow, I feel pretty fashionable now!
We are also making progress with some longer term plans and thoughts. We plan to make the maemo platform even more powerful and extend its capabilities further. In addition to GTK+, we intend to provide a Qt-based application development environment to the maemo platform. We will therefore hire people with knowledge of GTK+/C and/or Qt/C++.
I’ll keep you posted. Take a look at the Nokia jobs and the maemo.org, too.
posted by Ari Jaaksi at 9:01 PM
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Will it make Maemo more powerful if Nokia introduces Qt? Will it make the UI more coherent? Will it help to focus the development? Will it improve compatibility with similar projects that more or less follow the lines of GNOME Mobile? Does it make Maemo any more lightweight?
I'm not a developer and I really don't care about Qt or Gtk (which seems to be a religion for some). I just don't see the point of squeezing both into the platform.
An important question about WiMax in N810 WE, can you tell to us, wich chipset is used ?
Thanks
This is really great news.
I'm looking forward to see Qt fully integrated in next generation NITs.
Please try to embrace the community and don't start a closed source Qt version of maemo but keep it open from the very beginning.
Feel the synergy that Trolltech gained from KDE and vice versa.
If everything works out this will be a real win-win situation.
And I can finally use my Qt skills to write integrated applications and don't have to use *cough* GTK+.
To finish with the Trolltech slogan:
Code Less, Create More!
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More details about Qt in maemo at http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/qt_to_be_supported_in_addition_to_gtk.html
Having Qt on board, as an alternative to Gtk for the development just rocks! Looking forward to see Qt (and maybe also parts of KDE) being "natively" available on ITs! That's the power of OpenSource!
That's great. I'm looking forward to integrate the the QT-Java-bindings (Jambi) as soon, as QT is available for the ITs.
Let's remember that have several runtime environments in one software platform ain't anything new: S60 on Symbian has beside the native environment support for Phyton, a web runtime, a Java runtime, a Flash runtime, and supports many POSIX APIs in its Open C enhancement.
s60 open c (whatever that is) ... like who cares?
Qt4 libs are available at qt4.garage.maemo.org since Dicember 2007.
I've just readed on maemo.org that nokia doesn't want to hildonize them and doesn't want to provide any qt4 app.
So what nokia will do to different from the community available packages?
It's absolutely great to see Qt4 coming to Maemo. Working with Qt just feels more natural and efficient. I sure hope it will be integrated into environment as much as possible and be a first class citizen. Having Plasma UI shell (and maybe even other parts) from KDE4 at disposal would be almost perfect.
The award you mentioned is well deserved. I bought a 770 last year and upgraded to an n800 recently. I use these mainly at home as web browser, voip phone, quick e-mail maintenance, edia player ..... the list goes on..! Basicly these gadgets have made my laptop annd desktop pcs redundant for mmany tasks. Congratulations to you and your team for winning the awaard and I look forward to further developments of the operating system.
Probably some of you guys have seen my QTablet project http://qtablet.laginen.net. It's fully Qt Embedded based application framework for N800/N810.
The original purpose for me was to make Qt Embedded (Qtopia-Core) to run on N800, but the more you eat the more hungry you will get:)
Currently project's maturity level is quite low, but there are few developers who are currently developing it with me.
The source code is downloadable and there are targets for N800 and N810 specific binaries so it can be run on both devices. Even dbus messages are partially handled at the moment using QDbus:)
IMO Qt is way better c++ 'bindings' to the platform than gtkmm, which is just a wrapper for gtk (and why shouldn't c++ developers not call gtk api's directly and cripple their app. start-up performance with a bag of symbols).
I do have some concerns however that Qt seem to badly re-use modern X11 platform technology like Composite, cairo and glib. While this is fully understandable from how Qt has grown on this platform, I do hope that Nokia will encourage the Qt port to share these base libraries with the hildon platform. After all, the development experience with Qt has nothing to do how it's interact with the platform.
Now that is finally the reason for me to buy an N810! I wanted to have one of those for quite a while but was reluctant because of GTK (from a software technology point of view, Qt and GTK really aren't playing in the same league).
Being a professional software developer myself, this is great news for me :-)
I am a Ruby coder by hobby and Pharmacist by training. I have written 5 text based applications for the N800 as well as our Linux and Windows boxes at work in a small community hospital.
I decided back in March to choose QT as my GUI toolkit and was bummed that it wouldnt run on my N800. The announcement that QT was coming to maemo made me so happy; now I will have cool looking apps and will be able to sell my director on using them. (The N800 figures prominently in my plan to allow the pharmacists to walk the floors and be able to do all their calcualtions the exact same way; should allow for better patient outcomes...
Personally, the maemo sandbox with GTK is dismal; it doesnt even run on my 64 bit processor based dev box. Hopefully, porting my newly interfaced QT apps wont be tied to it...
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