Hi,

I'm writing a Qt app for Maemo 5. I've made some good progress and I've managed get it to install just fine on my N900 using MADDE. Although my app is now 'functionally complete' for a v0.1, I'm not happy with the looks of some of my screens, so I'd like to know if there are any more or less complete apps out there that I could look at for reference.

The specific issues I have is that my 'menu buttons' look ugly compared to the one for the built in applications (e.g., tap on the top of the Web Browser).

The second is that my 'Settings' dialog that I open up from my main application looks even uglier compared to any of the ones you can find in the 'Settings' application on the device. I have more settings than fit within the limited space of the popped up window and I can't get my QScrollArea to be 'fingerscrollable', or scrollable at all. On top of that, I think I need to apply some style or stylesheet, as it turns out really ugly now. Not sure if the root of my problem might be that my main application window is using the Plastique style?

Hello,

There's a couple application you could take a look at on the garage. Mine is at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/qquiz/

Have you tried without using a particular style, the default one?

For the scrollable area have you tried to set that :

scrollArea->setProperty("FingerScrollable", true);

Thanks, I'll have a look.

I just found this one as well: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/mobile-demos

You should always use Maemo5 style which is the default, unless you absolutely need to change.
I can see some of the widgets are not appearing in the maemo5 style, the radiobuttons for example, thats why I suppose you dont find them attractive, they are also too small for use on the n900 screen.
Not changing style will solve most of your issues.

if you want to change the look and feel of specific widgets, first try using members of the widget class, like settting colors or size sometimes they dont work in Maemo5 style , in those cases if you want you can override specific widgets using stylesheets.

.....and just for information everything on the maemo respository is open source