Thread: Elops oh s**t moment for Meego
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2011-06-09 , 08:15
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Again though, Nokia's finger friendly, touchscreen oriented changes weren't always accepted upstream, so they found themselves continuously having to adjust and reapply their patches to the rapidly evolving upstream GTK+ code. That work consumed resources that could otherwise have been used to move the OS forward.
Or, I don't know, they could spend some extra time to make their patches acceptable and stop having to maintain them externally.

Harmattan maintains much of the Gnome software stack, but switches to Qt as the primary toolkit to get away from the problem.
It was just a lucky break that there was an alternative upstream toolkit available to buy and switch to. But it did come at a high cost - Fremantle was half-finished because they didn't want to spend too much effort developing a dead-end platform, and Harmattan still hasn't seen the light of day even in SDK form 2 years after the switch announcement and counting.
 

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