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List:       openmoko-apps
Subject:    Re: OpenMoko application QT?!?!?!
From:       Dave Neary <dave.neary () wengo ! com>
Date:       2007-10-10 8:44:06
Message-ID: 470C90D6.9030200 () wengo ! com
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Hi,

I should probably chjoose a better place to make my first contribution
to the list, but...

Eric Preston wrote:
> On 6-Oct-07, at 8:41 AM, Chris Lord wrote:
>> OK, I give up. Using Qt on a GTK-based, embedded platform isn't a bad
>> idea at all and I definitely didn't provide justification for my
>> statements in any of my previous mails.
> 
> I feel your pain reading this thread. Don't be too discouraged.  There
> are those of us out there that understand and agree whole heartedly and
> applaud your *more than a passing attempt* at explaining why OpenMoko is
> a GTK-based platform/framework to the endless hordes who want to talk
> all day and all night about Qt.

As a GNOME guy, and as a developer on a QT telephony application
(http://www.openwengo.org - excuse the plug), I definitely appreciate
that using QT on a GTK+ platform introduces overhead which penalises
system performance. If/when we port OpenWengo to the OpenMoko platform,
we will more than likely re-write a GUI using gtkmm or pygtk and plug
that onto the existing data model - I would advise anyone else focusing
a particular platform which has GNOME mobile as the target platform to
do something similar.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
OpenWengo Community Development Manager
Email: dave.neary@wengo.com
Tel: +33 9 51 13 46 45
Mob: +33 6 28 09 73 11

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