Am 24.08.2007 um 21:03 schrieb Lorn Potter:
Tilman Baumann wrote:
I like Qtopie too. Especially considering how well they could
handle embedded guis for years.
But in reallity. qt and c++ is a limitation. Look how far Opie was
evolved during the last years and how god id was from the
beginning. But it still was more or less insignificant.
Opie is but a fork of Qtopia. Using Qt and c++ is hardly a
limitation. Take a look at KDE.
The limitation is that you have to use it. If you like it or not.
Or in other words, you don't code for the project unless you are a QT
nerd.
Then look how far Nokia got with theyr maemo gtk modell. Within
half a year they had a big community and lots of great programms
ported.
Thats more because they had some cool hardware. Meamo is not all
that free - it contains proprietary parts, which is a consequence
of using LGPL, which is why Amgstrom does not build flash images
for these devices.
I'm not talking bout freedom.
I'm talking about easy porting and giving a community the tools they
are used to use. Sure QT is cool, kde is cool and qtopia is cool.
But you limit yourself to the fraction of delopers who care about QT.
Openmoko (and maemo) it is more or less, take one of millions of gtk
programms kick it through the compiler and run it. And if you like it
usable, replce some gtk widgets.
As i said. Give me qtopia on the Neo, i would like it.
But i can certainly see why his was not choosen as default. And i'm
happy with that decision.
Gtk is no bad desicion at all. Even though i agee, qtopia is relly sexy.
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