On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:09:25PM +0300, Kate Alhola wrote: > > The importance and the goal of Hildon is to provide a set of essential > > widgets so > > > > a) app developers don't have to waste their time in writing them > > themselves > > b) there is UI consistency between all applications > > > > If there are no Qt equivalents for all Hildon widgets, none of > > these two problems are solved, no matter how easy it is for > > developers to write their own widgets or how compact the code is.
> If you think that if there is not 1 to 1 equivalent for everything, > there is nothing. No, I haven't said that. What I say is: * The Fremantle UI style depends heavily on a set of widgets that have been specifically designed for it. * These include some very fundamental widgets such as HildonAppMenu, HildonPickerButton and HildonStackableWindow. * If you take a look at the N900 you'll see that these widgets are used ALL OVER THE PLACE. * Example: there's no application in the N900 using a menu other than HildonAppMenu. * If you want to use a menu in your application you must use HildonAppMenu or a widget designed to mimic its look and feel, else your application will look different. * There's nothing necessarily wrong with that (e.g. Canola), but developers should be aware before starting to write their apps. So: * Do you want to provide Qt libs for developing Fremantle apps? Good * Are all the widgets that have been designed as a central part of the Fremantle UI available in Qt? Good * Aren't they available yet? Fair enough, but then make sure that developers are aware of this. The bottom line: * Telling people that it's completely reasonable to write Fremantle apps in Qt without making clear that some fundamental Fremantle widgets have not been written yet it not a good idea IMHO. > It is also other question that which is more wasting time, writing > couple of dozen lines when you can save couple of thousand lines in > all application by more compact and efficient code with C++ and Qt. I'm not going to start a C vs C++ debate, but I don't think this is an argument here since there are already C++ bindings for Hildon: http://maemomm.garage.maemo.org/docs_unstable/tutorial/html/sec-TouchSelector.html Berto _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
