On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Till Harbaum / Lists > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> I don't want to act as stop energy for someone wanting to improve the >>> MTF QWidget style, but it should remain a "niche" solution that we'll >>> warn developers from touching unless absolutely necessary. > >> Honestly? If someone will provide working mtf theming you'll start warning >> people about that? How rude is that? > > It may be marginally rude to the developer that believes in his work, > but it's the right thing to do for the end developer about to use a > technology that is deprecated (on mobile, not on desktop). It's better > to warn him early than let him burn later (when his app won't work on > an upcoming device, or will work badly). > >> niche solution, do you? Please, don't start this "my solution is better than >> yours and i'll >> warn your users because what they do is wrong". > > It's perfectly standard practice to steer people away from technology > that is considered obsolete. Think gnome-vfs => gvfs, Qt3 => Qt4, Gtk2 > => Gtk3. > > This is not "my opinion" by any stretch. It's the message that has > been consistently coming out from Qt organization at Nokia since > October 2010:
Not only that, but it has also been the official MeeGo architecture stance since a while now, and was discussed and explained for a long time. There is nothing rude about that, it is actually the polite thing to do. Auke _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
