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Originally Posted by marxian View Post
Yes, I know. I have written two applications myself. Even after many hours of tweaking and banging my head against a brick wall, I couldn't get cuteTube running on Symbian in a satisfactory way.

The hype doesn't match the reality. Try developing applications for multiple Nokia platforms, and you will see this for yourself. That's why we haven't seen all those Symbian Qt applications ported to Maemo 5, and vice versa. Even with Qt Components, there are still significant changes that need to be made to the UI code to target more than one platform. That's before you even come up against any Qt bugs and platform-specific workarounds.
You actually totally forget that full Qt with qt-component support was not introduced officially until recently in Symbian (Belle).

So this may very well change. But there is some differences in qt-components and qt-component for symbian but they will also merge.

Its way easier to do crossplatform now than for a year ago. When symbian still used its own crap API and Fremantle was using gtk+

And in case of OSS applications we will probadly see alot of new Harmattan apps backported to Maemo5/Meego1.3CE because now we have same Qt version in fremantle as Harmattan and qt-component.
 

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