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jalyst is offline jalyst
2011-10-13 , 07:58
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#9519
Originally Posted by marxian View Post
I believe that the merging of Qt Components between Symbian and Meego-Harmattan is planned.
I noticed yesterday that Symbian has now got some components that were previously only available on Meego-Harmattan, so it is happening.
Is there a clear time-line for completion, or just some very vague goals?
Do they genuinely intend to commit & see this through aggressively, or is most of the focus shifting to WP?

The bigger obstacle is the legacy code that makes Symbian a PITA.
Nokia seem to be having difficulty in providing a Qt wrapper for some of the Symbian APIs, which means that you still have to mess with native Symbian C++ code.
Is there any sign that this will be overcome any time soon?

There is also the fact that many Qt APIs (particularly the mobility and multimedia stuff) seem to be forever at the beta stage, meaning you cannot use them if you want to target the Nokia Store.
Bizarre, when's that likely to become less of an issue?

I think the main obstacle to seeing Symbian Qt applications on Meego-Harmattan is that the platform is perceived as a dead end.
Symbian developers creating new applications using Qt Components may go ahead anyway, as it should be a fairly small effort, but I doubt we'll see many of the existing Symbian applications that have been written using Qt Widgets.
I wish Nokia would provide some strong incentives for devs to write their apps using Qt components.
For both those creating apps from scratch, and those with apps using legacy code.
We should get a nice flow-over from Symbian in the next few years.
But it won't be nearly as strong as it could be, if Nokia aggressively facilitated it