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2008-01-29 , 15:32
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Yesterday's big news was Nokia's $153M acquisition of Trolltech, makers of the Qtopia framework and the Qt platform. Some of you might have heard of the Qtopia Mobile Phone, or the Sony Mylo, or Skype, or Google Earth, or Adobe Photoshop Album, or the Nokia PC Suite -- one thing common about them is that they are 'Trolltech Inside.' A lot of discussion brewed from this move from Nokia. A hefty discussion brewed at itT and posting the same question at the Maemo Developers List received some interesting responses worthy of a 'free software opera' as Quim Gil, Nokia Development Platform Product Manager puts it. Quim, as most of us know from Maemo.org, has just posted a new entry on his blog to hopefully put perspective on Trolltech and Maemo. Here are some snippets: ...I made some research to confirm the guess. When it comes to maemo, there are no Trolltech/Qt related plans at the moment. On the mid term… well, nobody knows. What follows are my thoughts today. Trolltech develops Qt, a cross-platform application development framework that powers KDE and is also licensed to many commercial software projects. Nokia pushes the Symbian OS with several own platforms on top like S60 or S40, plus several non-mobile applications like Nokia PC Suite (developed with Qt, by the way). Trolltech’s toolkit and its C++ native language (which is native in Symbian as well) fit very well in Nokia’s short term strategy to improve cross-compatibility between the Symbian platforms. If making a good use of the Qt library helps having in maemo some of the cool stuff available in S60, all the better then. Thanks for taking time explaining thing Quim! Read the full article.
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What it might do is give TrollTech-a-division-of-Nokia an incentive to develop QT-to-maemo migration tools, which it obviously would not have had before.

I hope that isn't just an expression of wishful thinking . . .

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Thanks to you for the quote. In fact, thanks to it I have re-read the text realizing that it said that S40 was also a Symbian based platform, when in fact it relies on Nokia OS.
 
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Article updated. Thanks Quim.
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http://maemo.org/news/announcements/...on_to_gtk.html
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2008/04/ctia-and-qt.html

Qt will be coming to the tablets. Looks like "Q4 2008".
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Can someone please tell us in layman's terms ...... if possible ..... what this means for tthe tablets.
 
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Can someone please tell us in layman's terms ...... if possible ..... what this means for tthe tablets.
Simply put, no major changes to the current setup except that Qt libs will be available and bundled from Nokia.
 
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Also from the maemo announcement
The plan is in the earliest stage and recruitment offers for Qt/C++ developers will pop up soon. Don't expect any Qt application developed by Nokia for the tablets anytime soon, though. The first actual step will be the distribution of the Qt libraries for application development in maemo.org during 4Q2008
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Nokia has no plans to offer a "hildonized" Qt-based UI. Qt applications will look different in the tablets just like some successful 3rd party applications look different.

This means no real work will start until people get hired and they are currently rather conservative with Hildon integration (menu, dialogs, themes). Even virtual keyboard is GTK based so it is not easy to make it appear and correctly interact with Qt based application.
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Webkit has been integrated into Qt 4.4, so maybe new browser and widgets based on Webkit will be on maemo platform.
 
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Interesting for Qt on maemo: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linu...-in-with-gnome
 

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