Maemo Weekly News: 24 January 2011
Gtk+ on MeeGo Handset bidders selected by GNOME Foundation
Following a donation of a large sum of money by Nokia, the GNOME Foundation have selected Igalia to conduct the work:
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We received a number of very interesting bids for the project, but Igalia's bid was the one that focused the most on integrating elements of Hildon into GTK+ upstream. This should mean easier porting of older Hildon/Maemo applications to the new MeeGo Handset platform, as well as easier porting of existing desktop GTK+ applications to the handset.
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Claudio Saavedra, one of the developers working on the project, said "will spend the next months trying to bring the best from the Hildon user experience to upstream GTK+, to make sure that the good old Maemo applications can be easily ported to GTK+".
Qt SDK 1.1 (Tech Preview) has Qt Quick/QML, Symbian, Maemo & desktop app support
Nokia's Qt strategy take a step forward with a preview release of Qt SDK 1.1, which merges the numerous separate SDKs into a single install bundle:
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The new SDK is a merge of the Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 and the last Qt SDK, based on Qt 4.7. [...] The new Qt SDK 1.1 Technology Preview enables developers targeting desktop platforms to use the same setup, features and environment as developers targeting [mobile] platforms. This eases the migration of desktop applications to mobile platforms.
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With installers for Windows, Linux (32- & 64-bit x86) and Mac OS X, and the integration of cutting edge Qt technologies and fully supported Maemo development this is what Maemo's been waiting for. Unfortunately, it's a few years late, but hopefully will put MeeGo (if/when Nokia release a handset running it) in a better position.
In this edition...- Front Page
- Gtk+ on MeeGo Handset bidders selected by GNOME Foundation
- Qt SDK 1.1 (Tech Preview) has Qt Quick/QML, Symbian, Maemo & desktop app support
- Applications
- Beat Maker - call for testers for drum sequencer
- Status of PlayStation emulators
- Qt-based TwimGo 2.5 runs "smoothly" on Symbian N8 "as it does on N900"
- Open Media Player gets playback and seeking support
- Development
- Ovi Store requirements vs. maemo.org Extras QA
- NTFS MeeGo feature and conspiracy theories
- Desaturate, rather than blur, to emphasise UI context
- Community
- Meeting log for MeeGo Community Office catch-up
- Devices
- Fixing prioritisation of Application manager slowness & Media player choppiness
- Prototype MeeGo Nokia device photos?
- Announcements
- Pingus (Lemmings clone) released for N900
- Blobby Volley 2 updated from N8x0 to N900
- TxPad code editor
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