Anyone knows if plain Qt will look good on Meego or if QML is the only way to go? On Maemo plain Qt looks nice so just wondering if it would look as good in Meego or if that support will be dropped?

What exactly do you mean "look good"? I believe that they'll function correctly.

Most QT applications will likely conform to the MeeGo handset UI guidelines (if developed specifically for it).

There is QML and libmeegotouch for plain C++. Please do never use desktop Qt widgets on a handset, it's just horrible (as was Gtk+). No serious developer should even consider such a thing.

So plain Qt will not work as good on Meego as on Maemo? You're forced to use QML on Meego?

I honestly don't know, but whatever you consider "good", is still horrible. There is really no reason to. Creating a custom mobile UI does not take that much time, and is absolutely necessary to create a usable application that people will take seriously.

Ok thanks. I've already written a Qt ui for my app, Panucci, but a little bird told me that plain Qt might look ugly on Meego. Sadly I don't got a N900 so I can't test it myself, will have to wait and see what happens.

Edit. If it looks ugly I guess I have to write it in QML even if i didn't plan to.

qtgui(widgets) is there..

And if I remember right mad-developer ui is plain qt(or maybe it is gtk) and yes it looks ugly. as people already stated you better go qtquick for UI you can ofcourse still use C++ for the rest of the stuff. so if you dont have very much UI you better convert UI to qtquick I dont think it will be that lhard for you and also it will be cooler

there is already some good ui components so you dont have to lmake buttons etc.. from scratch.

btw. another reason could be it will start faster cause the meegoui has already "loaded" qmldeclarative libs?

libmeegotouch and qtcomponents should be about equivalent, depending on whether you prefer C++ or QML.

LOL !!! No serious developper should even consider QML, it s imature, bugged, and just good enought do display listview, image and rectangle at the Moment.

Try to do a text editor with syntax hiligthing in QML. Not possible ... at least with less than 10s between each modification on the text. It s not a problem with a QTextEdit

And Yes Real QT look ugly on MeeGo as it s not themed, and the existing one theme is bugged. So currently some say that Qt will not be themed, some they it will. But anyway they deprecated QWidget.

If dev want a to use javascript and css view, they can use WebRuntime, but forcing all dev to use Qml is pretty bad idea. Why switching to QML and not use Html5 with JS and a small loader. It ll really give us cross plateform apps contrary to QML.

// A Angry dev about another change i found stupid ... At least let QML Mature enough ... It s not useable today.

That's a pretty unfounded rant. You don't have to use QML, there is still libmeegotouch. Just don't use desktop components on a mobile phone, that's all I'm saying. Or go ahead and do so, if you don't mind that only a handful of geeks will enjoy your application (which may not be a problem, if you think about something requiring syntax highlighting...).

This has nothing to do with putting a pretty theme on it or not, it won't make a difference.