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2008-07-09 , 09:51
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
  • It is not certain that GTK will remain part of maemo. QT might as well completely replace it.
  • It is not certain that the next major release after Diablo ("Freemantle") will run on current N8x0 hardware.
Those two points I don't like. I don't mind Qt availability, but I really want GTK to continue. GTK is a C-level library while Qt is a C++ library. I'm not going to write a single application in C++, ever. Keeping GTK available ensures a much larger developer base (C, Python, vala for those of us who want to use object-oriented C/GTK apps. without writing C++, etc.)

The second point I don't like either, but I don't see how that can really happen, except by e.g. going to an incompatible ARM CPU and only provide binary, proprietary, necessary parts of the UI or some even more essential part of the system (kernel is _not_ a problem). Besides, it breaks completely with what Nokia people said after the 770->N800 transition fiasco.
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