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Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 18:12
Replies: 343
Views: 105,980
Posted By svdwal
Re: Is there anything we can do??

This isn't going to happen. You're quite right about the heads and the places where the sun doesn't shine, but with Nokia dropping MeeGo as it's next big platform, MeeGo is dead. Nokia is going to...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 17:56
Replies: 343
Views: 105,980
Posted By svdwal
Re: Is there anything we can do??

Sorry, Sachin, but the only think Nokia believes in is its bottom line. If Open Source is good for Nokia's bottom line, then Nokia believes in Open Source. As soon as Nokia figured out that Open...
Forum: Brainstorm 2011-02-11, 17:45
Replies: 343
Views: 105,980
Posted By svdwal
Re: Is there anything we can do??

Elop has been hired by the board to do exactly what he is doing right now.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-27, 08:18
Replies: 16
Views: 19,667
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 Vs. Symbian^3 - The Future Contest ..

Well, the good thing about Symbian OS is that there is an enormous amount of functionally complete middleware you can use in your apps. The stuff that is part of apps in other systems, is reusable in...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-21, 09:30
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

It won't be that simple.

1) Look and feel. Dui apps will have a different look and feel from Symbian ^4 apps, at least, this is one of the arguments used against my proposal. However, App Stores...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-01-18, 10:30
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

There is a big difference between having to create a couple of widgets and having to rename each and every Qt class in your app.

The Dui proposal requires you to change all the top-level UI code....
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-11-20, 10:02
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Of course, somebody has to do it, but it is an implementation issue. Windows has different requirements from MacOSX, and those differences are hidden inside the multi-platform library. That's the...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-11-18, 16:08
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Qt for Nokia is an asset as long as code written for Qt can be deployed on lots of platforms. That is after all why Nokia bought it in the first place. So, with Qt in place, Nokia has a very good...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-11-18, 15:48
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

I don't believe it is a good idea to push Direct UI all the way to the application level. The whole point of Qt is it being a library that hides as much as possible of the host platform. So if you...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-11-18, 12:43
Replies: 197
Views: 139,460
Posted By svdwal
Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

[Note: this is a copy of a message I posted at Forum Nokia, about compatibility between the Maemo6 UI and the and Symbian ^4 UI, this being my main concern. But because Maemo 6 is also breaking...
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