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	qgil	2009-07-05 , 15:49
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Originally Posted by lma

I don't have strong feelings about either toolkit, but the switch (as opposed to both being available and equal) doesn't make sense to me. Apparently (11:48 onwards) the main driver for this seems to be cross-platform compatibility in general, and with SymbianOS in particular. That's a bit... naive to say the least. Portability is a lot more than skin deep,

Naive? The Qt developers at Nokia probably know well the complexity of this goal. At the end is their code and they have got some experience about cross-platform development over the years.

Qt covers a lot more than the skin. Also take into account that we are talking about Qt in the times of Harmattan. If you look at the slides you will see that the plan is to use the Qt 4.6 / Qt Mobility API. It's true that there are many elements that need to be in place, in different platforms and working. But... did I say in the presentation that the Harmattan project is going to be easy to implement?

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