Thread: Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit
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2009-07-07 , 06:44
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Diablo is dead as can be (and has been for quite a while now), and still there are new or updated packages. It's out there, so people develop for it, no matter if it's "obsolete".
That's likely to change once third-generation hardware is out. How many new packages do you see for the 770 (Hacker Editions aside)?

Within all these constraints, announcing the move now was the only sane thing to do.
No, the sane thing to do would be to provide a transition path. At least one of the two GUI frameworks should be officially supported on both releases.

They say they can't do that because of lack of resources, but at the same time they admit they'll have to rewrite everything that draws on the screen to C++/Qt which is orders of magnitude more work. Something does not quite compute there...

One other thing to consider: if the "community" isn't able (or willing - unpaid volunteers have even fewer resources available) to pick up the slack in time for the Harmattan release it would mean that most existing apps simply won't work on Harmattan devices. That will hurt both sales and developer adoption, and Nokia should care about those.
 

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