Thread: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4
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2010-01-09 , 10:07
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#113
Originally Posted by Mark Wilcox View Post
Really? Years? It seems stuff in Qt-labs typically gets to the mainline a version or two later - maybe Qt 4.8?
Well, how much time did it take to get animation framework into 4.6? Which is fairly simple. I took a look at activity of itemview-ng and there were only few commits during last several months. Trolls are genius but there are not so many of them. May be not years but year - easily. Phone programs can't wait

Originally Posted by Mark Wilcox View Post
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.
Yeah, I know. But your first post gave an impression that arrogant developers didn't want to cooperate. Which is not true. Lets close this, noone in libdui team (even ex members who are now working in other maemo teams) feared or is fearing to loose his job.

Originally Posted by Mark Wilcox View Post
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?
I don't understand whats the big deal of replacing QApplication with DuiApplication? First, we are trying to avoid mixing Q* and Dui*. Second and it's more important, we need to initialize quite a few services: application prestarting, service framework and so on. I doubt QT guys would like to see that code in QApplicationPrivate

Qt will take some parts from libdui but it's not going to happened before 4.7 as far as I know (or at least make alternative implementation).
 

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