Thread: how many N900's do you own?
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ade is offline ade
2015-11-15 , 11:00
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#37
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Last but not least, developing for and on the N900 is a breeze compared to Jolla.
Please create your own Jolla application and judge again. QML is way easier/productive frontend wise. Backend wise it can both be C++.

I could find some 5 years old Qt source, copy it to my N900, type qmake and make and hey presto, it worked straight out of the box. Doing the same on a Jolla is a never ending struggle.
Old sources do not work on Sailfish because they are probably QWidget based, which are no longer supported in recent Qt versions. And most of the time you can forget about "working straight out of the box".
Not only is the aplication layout often desktop based, it also misses desired hildon widgets. I tried converting mediainfo-gui from existing QT widget sources on the N900, but was happy I restarted from scratch in the end. Porting apps in general (also Blackberry QML/cascades to Jolla QML/silica) is not that simple, else we would see that way more port. I think MartinK knows way more about these challenges
 

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