Should've used Qt from the very beginning instead of wasting years pissing about with GTK!
There are some benefits of using GTK, like porting apps. You can close to compile clean Debian code to Maemo without modifications. If every app had to be Qt only, it would be another story.
Right now, we have the best of both.
There are some benefits of using GTK, like porting apps.
How so? If you're porting GTK apps then yeah, maybe. If maemo had used Qt then porting Qt apps would be just as "easy".
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Right now, we have the best of both.
And also the worst of both worlds since there is the bloat of both GTK and Qt libs. Not helped by the fact that Nokia is infamous for putting too little RAM in their devices and crippling their potential.
How so? If you're porting GTK apps then yeah, maybe. If maemo had used Qt then porting Qt apps would be just as "easy".
And also the worst of both worlds since there is the bloat of both GTK and Qt libs. Not helped by the fact that Nokia is infamous for putting too little RAM in their devices and crippling their potential.
Very true. And yeah, it's great that you can easily port GTK+ apps, but the few that are worth porting, like Transmission, are a pain to use that I'd rather have a Qt variant, QtRapids for example.
