Thread: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4
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Mark Wilcox is offline Mark Wilcox
2010-01-08 , 10:14
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#107
Hi dubik,

Thanks very much for coming to get involved in the conversation.

I wouldn't put my money on itemview-ng. It's a great research project but not much more. Not to mention that it will take years until it become part of QT.
Really? Years? It seems stuff in Qt-labs typically gets to the mainline a version or two later - maybe Qt 4.8?

I would suggest to all angry people download Harmattan UI Framework, review code, suggest new apis and ideas and help us make it a mainstream framework (for instance many comments from zchydum are already in master). There is a lot of things to do for everyone.
Excellent! As soon as the Symbian folks have released their UI framework code I'll start comparing and contrasting and seeing where we can get the quickest wins.

However I agree it's fun to blame developers which secure their jobs for fragmenting frameworks. Haha. There are only 2 guys in libdui who still work since the beginning of project.
It's never developers that make the decisions at this level - typically someone somewhere in the upper reaches of middle management who hasn't touched code for 5+ years. There's also a big difference between what people fear will happen in a re-org and what actually happens afterwards.

What about one of the comments on this thread, is DuiApplication really needed, or can things be pushed back into the private implementation of QApplication? I realise the libdui guys can't do that on their own, but in theory?
 

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