Has QT fixed the speed yet?

Posted Oct 18, 2013 17:39 UTC (Fri) by halla (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Has QT fixed the speed yet? by drag
Parent article: Wireshark switches to Qt

Quite a few. And, of course, "mobile" isn't limited to "android". Not only did Qt work extremely well on Maemo and Meego, not only does it works very well on Sailfish and Ubuntu's mobile stuff, but it's also used in e-readers, like Kobo (entirely Qt-based) and there are actually even a few applications on iOS that use Qt (like Musescore). Qt runs fine even on Tizen.

And then mobile is bigger than just mobile phones. My own Krita Sketch and Krita Gemini works perfectly well on Windows 8 tablets, for instance. My company works on a Qt application for Sailfish.

So, yes, Drag, "really." Qt runs extremely well on mobile platforms. Really. Qt shines in more places than ever before.

Has QT fixed the speed yet?

Posted Oct 18, 2013 21:37 UTC (Fri) by kugel (subscriber, #70540) [Link] (2 responses)

Maemo used GTK+ for the most part, didn't it?

Has QT fixed the speed yet?

Posted Oct 18, 2013 23:45 UTC (Fri) by krakensden (subscriber, #72039) [Link]

Yeah, they switched around the same time that they transitioned into Meego.

The history of that project is so depressing.

Has QT fixed the speed yet?

Posted Oct 19, 2013 8:13 UTC (Sat) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Yes -- the fremantle (the maemo version that came with the N900) mostly was based on GTK -- but that isn't the point. The point is that Qt applications ran perfectly well on it, with a nice look and feel fit for the whole platform.

This is all, remember, in reply to someone who trotted out a seven-year old anecdote about relative performance of GTK and Qt on mobile and asked whether that was still relevant for today's Qt on mobile experience. A lot has happened since the early qtopia days, his experience isn't relevant anymore.