Hi,

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Nicola De Filippo
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> i have a question: why to create touch framework (other class, other widget)
> when exist QML?

Not that I can give you a decisive answer, but two possible answers,
and things to keep in mind:
- QML didn't exist (or wasn't mature) at the time. It will first be
released in 4.7, which still hasn't actually been released.
- QML currently does not have a standardised widget set, meaning that
if you want to do applications following a coherent style, you will
have issues.
  This looks like it is being addressed in qt-components
(http://gitorious.org/qt-components), but that will of course take
more time.

Not that I disagree that things could have perhaps been approached a
little more coherently, as I (and a number of others) voiced concerns
about at the time of the Harmattan UI toolkit release - the following
thread contains some of that discussion:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34686

I do hope that the picture clears up a bit more than is the case so
far, though. Having four separate ways to do UI, three of which are
new (mtouch/QML/Orbit/Qt) is a bit of a trainwreck on the approach for
application developers, and does not provide a consistent, clear path.

For myself, and my own projects, I'll be sticking with plain Qt until
the dust settles and there is a clear winner, if for no other reason
than the Qt SDK makes this path a lot easier to follow. ;)

>                          N.

--
Robin Burchell
http://rburchell.com
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