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2008-01-29 , 10:57
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Originally Posted by drizek View Post
That just means they are upgrading their license to a new version of the GPL. The old version was under GPL 2, now it is under GPL 3.

Anyway, I really hope to get a Qt based maemo. A webkit based browser is IMO going to be much better than microB. I think Qt is in general prettier and more resource efficient than GTK, and being able to run KDE apps like Koffice or Amarok is going to be a huge selling point.
Well, I'm biased, so don't take my comments on Qt all too serious , but this is what I think.

Whether Qt or Gtk is prettier is a matter of taste. I, e.g. never really liked the look of KDE and the Qt toolkit. But in the end, it's a matter of theming. I don't think that Qt is more resource efficient that Gtk. Maybe they're on par with with each other. But if you consider that Gtk is C while Qt is (preprocessed, i.e. not clean) C++, I assume that Qt is not as resource efficient. But this also greatly depends on how well both toolkits are designed/written.
Amarok is really a very good app but I doubt it would fit the small tablet screen. You'd still need a "hildonized" version to make this really a selling point.