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2009-07-06
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#42
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You should not consider Qt and OpenGL-ES as alternatives,
they are rather than supporting each other. OpenGL-ES is used
accelerating lo of the new animated UI effects and if you would like make OpenGL-ES application, Qt can act as wrapper and provide
lot of supporting API's.
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2009-07-06
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2009-07-06
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2009-07-06
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#45
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many developers find it weird that we are still coding in C in 2009, bindings notwithstanding.
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2009-07-06
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#46
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From a developer's personal standpoint - presently 3D is a bit of grey area in Maemo 5. No Qt release I've seen so far (Fremantle betas/extras-devel) included the QtOpenGL module yet, there is some uncertainty about how Clutter comes into play, will we have a game mode, will that have special considerations, etc... The potential is definitely there, but Fremantle is far from ready to start start serious 3D app/game development/porting (like my my favorite QtOpenGL app) by developers without Nokia hats.
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2009-07-06
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One could also discuss, of course, the wisdom of Nokia's decision to drop GTK in favor of Qt, but then again... why? It's one of those moments in life where suit and tie beats reason. Sure it's not a wise thing to do, but how could they not do it once they spent all this money on acquiring former trolltech?
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2009-07-06
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One could also discuss, of course, the wisdom of Nokia's decision to drop GTK in favor of Qt, but then again... why? It's one of those moments in life where suit and tie beats reason. Sure it's not a wise thing to do, but how could they not do it once they spent all this money on acquiring former trolltech?
Within all these constraints, announcing the move now was the only sane thing to do. They could have chosen not to say anything in order to make developers feel more confident about the future of their GTK-based Fremantle projects.... But in the long run, it's moves like these that earn Nokia trust. (At least I hope so. I really do.)
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2009-07-06
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#49
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FWIW, I think switching to Qt sounds more like a developer-driven decision than a "suit&tie" matter
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2009-07-06
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#50
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Maybe Symbian and Maemo are being somehow combined. Maybe there's some innovative migration path to bring the Symbian masses to Maemo.
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Regards,
Roger
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I'm not a developer, I'm an 'end-user'. And I'm confused.
I have a pc instead of a mac because I can take out hardware components and change them. I liked the idea of 770 and 800 as "open source" because it suggested a wide range of apps and stuff to give the units life.
I fully understand planning years ahead, for hardware that might not even exist, for deals that might or might not be made.
so my confusion here is that 'rover' might come with an OS that will be obsolete within a year and might not run the next one, and that the development work some people are doing now on all the new aspects for that device and OS won't be carried through to the next gen?
Taken with the undeniable fact that 'rover' is really, really late (in terms of both the competition and the lineage of NITs), I'm really confused as to what's going on.
can anone explain in simple terms?