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And otherwise intelligent people believe in picking one library and running with it.

Why can't we have both?

The argument over inclusion of qt vs gtk is arbitrary.

And I forsee down the road the libraries merging (in several decades).

From a development perspective, should a developer have to learn a new language every time something new comes along? No. We left that "new language of the day" mess in the 80s.

Of course my beef with it, is that Nokia isn't using stock qt, they decided to add in their tweaks/"enhancements".

There are two distinct groups of developers at work here: the coders, writing software from scratch for a platform; and the porters, trying to get existing software working on another platform.

The coders have to adapt and learn to code in a new language or an existing language that has been modified.

The porters have to try and remedy dependency hell.

And yet "we're moving to qt. deal with it" is a good argument, how?

After so many people have learned to deal with Maemo's push for gtk*+hildon, you just want to lead them down another dead-end path?