Thread: Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit
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2009-07-07 , 14:26
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#83
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
But wait, you just wrote it up there. Harmattan is Qt, with GTK/Hildon marked as deprecated (it's still there but don't build empires on it).
Well, no:

Originally Posted by qgil View Post
GTK+/Hildon won't be used by the applications shipped with Harmattan out of the box and therefore won't be pre-installed. When we say that GTk+/Hildon will hopefully be there as community supported we really mean that. If all things go well developers interested in these libraries would find them in Extras, just like they are finding e.g. the Python bindings there now.
It all depends on someone picking up the ball and having sufficient time and skill to manage a decent port in time for the Harmattan release.

The only somewhat realistic development path for new apps (unless you want to support Diablo) is to go with Qt and hope any bugs you come across are not showstoppers. But if I was a commercial developer I would be dropping the platform for the next couple of years until they get their act together.
 

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