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mooninite 2010-02-17 22:48

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
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Originally Posted by russo_br (Post 532004)
Even Meego supporting GTK it would be harder (read expensive) for Sygic to support both Maemo 5 and Meego source codes, while they could have done it with Qt in order to reduce their efforts.

Please stop spreading FUD. GTK and Qt will be equally supported under MeeGo. Sygic will not "lose money" by using GTK.

russo_br 2010-02-18 17:07

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
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Originally Posted by mooninite (Post 533215)
Please stop spreading FUD. GTK and Qt will be equally supported under MeeGo. Sygic will not "lose money" by using GTK.

So please explain with arguments why you think I am spreading FUD, otherwise you're just acting like a fanboy... and probably one who never wrote any sw at all...

As I said applications wrote with GTK will need more work to port it to Meego than QT applications (GTK apps in general, not just Sygic), isn't that true???

Nokia is advising developers to choose QT for some time now. If GTK is equally supported like you said, what is the point of that?? Supported is different from seamlessly portability...

mikkov 2010-02-18 17:17

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by russo_br (Post 534803)
Nokia is advising developers to choose QT for some time now. If GTK is equally supported like you said, what is the point of that?? Supported is different from seamlessly portability...

What is your point here? Originally it was announced even before Maemo5 launch that Maemo6 (now MeeGo) will be moving to QT, everybody has known that. Now with MeeGo there will be GTK support too.

Sygic doesn't look like GTK application and my guess is that they are using their own graphics toolkit (maybe OpenGL based?), because the applicaiton looks the same as in iPhone for example.

russo_br 2010-02-19 02:28

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
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Originally Posted by mikkov (Post 534823)
What is your point here? Originally it was announced even before Maemo5 launch that Maemo6 (now MeeGo) will be moving to QT, everybody has known that. Now with MeeGo there will be GTK support too.

Sygic doesn't look like GTK application and my guess is that they are using their own graphics toolkit (maybe OpenGL based?), because the applicaiton looks the same as in iPhone for example.

My original question was if Sygic is using Qt or not, and it is still unanswered. My point is that, as a potential byuer, I would like to know if the GPS app I acquire could run on other Meego devices when I sell my N900. This was the speech from Nokia, that Qt will bring the benefit of carrying your apps between mobiles.

It was just a doubt, but an important one if you are thinking on spending 80+ euros on a GPS app, not to mention that we already paid 600 euros for N900 and Nokia is offering free navigation for much cheapier devices...

Viipottaja 2010-02-19 02:40

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
i think nokia was talking about developers

mooninite 2010-02-19 04:41

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
This is my last reply to you, russo_br. If you wish to have a decent conversation with me, just let me know.

Quote:

Originally Posted by russo_br (Post 534803)
So please explain with arguments why you think I am spreading FUD, otherwise you're just acting like a fanboy... and probably one who never wrote any sw at all...

I sure hope I've written software. I do it for a living. Oh, and I've made a few Maemo apps.
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As I said applications wrote with GTK will need more work to port it to Meego than QT applications (GTK apps in general, not just Sygic), isn't that true???
And how do you base your opinion? Have you made a Maemo app? The only thing that will need "porting" is moving away from Hildon, which isn't earth shattering or cause to think porting will take 30 developers months to do.
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Nokia is advising developers to choose QT for some time now. If GTK is equally supported like you said, what is the point of that?? Supported is different from seamlessly portability...
Nokia purchased Trolltech, creators of Qt. Nokia wants to push Qt across to Symbian as well. Their advice is nothing more than marketing. If you are not interested in supporting Symbian devices then you don't have to use Qt.

taril 2010-02-19 08:47

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
I asked again about it states:

Sygic is testing its navigation software on N900 and other Nokia phones (new symbian maybe). So, you dont have to wait too much, maybe it will be released in the late summer (august).

bockersjv 2010-02-19 09:12

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
Late summer, are they kidding is was supposedly ready pre Christmas? The lack of any concrete info unfortunaltely still leads me to the conclusion that this app will never see the light of day :(

I had hoped that with the Ovi Paid apps fix in the last PR that it would allow Sygic to release. Maybe they are waiting for the bigger firmware update?

Frappacino 2010-02-19 09:33

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
august? in time for meego ? lol

NokiaRocks 2010-02-19 09:55

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 
August. LoL
I've been waiting since December and really need Turn by Turn navigation now :/
Now I gotta buy a N97 or something like that to use Ovi Maps :(


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