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Day: GNOME OS

Day: GNOME OS

Posted Aug 8, 2012 13:45 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Day: GNOME OS by BlueLightning
Parent article: Day: GNOME OS

It seems to me that the gnome, too, decided that GTK isn't the right toolkit to create attractive applications for a mobile environment -- hence Clutter. And, of course, Qt isn't just a toolkit, it's way more that than, and Nokia actually, while using Qt, switched toolkits a couple more times, from QWidget-based DUI (might be mistaken about the official name, we used it for Fremantle office on the N900) to libmeegotouch to Meego QML Components.

Having used it, I have to say that libmeegotouch in particular was a travesty of everything that makes Qt so wonderful to work with. Bad documents, ghastly performance, horrible API.

QML is pretty nice, though.


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