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Originally Posted by elie-7 View Post
so your planning to port this to meego, nice .
but i think there will be a facebook status update widget for meego .
I am sure there will be some sort of facebook stuff for meego, but they have to make meego real first!

Keeping it fully Qt compliant is not just for meego compatibility (though that is a factor). It also makes it easier to develop and test. I was playing with some widget code a ways back and I had to use scratchbox, which meant I needed a 32-bit VM to run in (I am on 64-bit ubuntu). Keeping all that running was as much of a chore as the actual coding. Qt compliance means I can do a majority of the testing with a Linux desktop app, with only some need to resort to the sdk's built-in emulator. A final run directly on the device gives me a reality check.

I know there is some widget-harnessing code out there to facilitate qt apps as widgets, but what I would really like to see is a generic qml-hosting widget app that lets me put pure qml apps (not compiled into a C++ harness) on the desktop as maemo widgets. Perhaps that is pie in the sky (and perhaps I am forgetting that much of what I am writing is in Qt C++ and not in qml's javascript), but a man can dream. Of course that is all just noodling at this point. I have a day job and a family and a bottle of blue corn whisky that demand much of my time, and I would like to get this project stable before I embark on a new one.
 

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