Thread: Why Symbian OS is so not friendly at all? How is Maemo?
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2009-07-07 , 22:50
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#39
Originally Posted by qole View Post
#2 will always be a problem on every device, and from what I've seen, it will be a problem moving to the N900 (Maemo 5). And it sounds like there'll be another break for the next OS (Maemo 6), when they move to the QT toolkit.
This is only Nokia problem, they simply don't care, I read the thread about "Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit"
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30085
where they simply say all the existing applications of Maemo 3, 4 and 5 made with Hildonized Gtk+ will stop working in Maemo 6. This is simply un-excusable as a rationale direction and approach. Looks like dictatorship to me. "we don't care about your old software". Why is so hard to keep both Qt and Gtk+? Stuborness? I know there is and can be a small reason for everything, but if you want to say "the end user is our boss" then you have to make it easy for him, not very, very hard. The same for programmers, they will leave the platform if the direction changes that much dramatic.