c++ with qt4 is very very very simple and powerfull :

i've learn C/Gtk two years ago and 6 months after i've gone to qt because gtk was not enough powerfull for my project (no troll here, just a point of view)

why the hell do you want gtk hildon be supported in meego ? what will be the main force of meego is surely is consistency and it will be broken if we accept (like in almost all linux distro) a too large variety of toolkits, languages ....

that's what is doing Apple's force (and i hate them) : their products are really uniforms and integrated, so if we want MeeGo handset to be a full success like the iphone, we have as developper to stay stuck with ONE framework (meegotouch based on plain C++/Qt4) and do everything in the rules of art.

to many freedom is killing freedom, and IMO a free open platform will NEVER grow up enough to be visible if there are no limit and no unity in it.

we are not talking about a geeky OS the enjoy with hacking, there are Maemo and many other to do that, but if you want many apps, you need many customers, and to have many customers your product needs to be brillant, attractive and consistent.

and technically talking, get a look at meego theming system, based on layouts, css and svg and you will see in one second that Qt is greatly better than Gtk (with or without hildon) to give your handset a decent modern look, in the ways that end users like today.


Cheers.

PS : excuse my poor english, i'm french and just trying to get perfectly bilingual but that's not that easy....