Re: What would you do to encourage application developers on GNOME Mobile?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Am 30.04.2010 18:31, schrieb Jamie Bennett:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 17:16 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:05 +0100, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>>> Sure, but lets see if the OVI store will carry and promote none-QT apps.
>>
>> I'm sure that's interesting but, sorry, I don't see how that is relevant
>> to this issue either.
> 
> OK, not wanting to harp on but if Nokia will not push and promote GTK on
> their platform then why should a concerted effort, with precious
> funding, be pushed in this area? For the mass-market, exposure is
> everything and if a GTK effort is more difficult to get that Nokia QT
> promoted one through the OVI store (think Apples app store) then there
> is no future here outside of the hacker community (which can be
> significant but limited). Lets not forget that we are trying to target
> users outside of the current user-base.

Jamie, don't try to predict what Nokia will and won't do. Nokia is giving 50k
US$ to have decent gtk+ support on Harmattan. Also maemo has not 1000000 apps in
the store right now, meaning that I don't see the point in refusing gtk apps.

Last but not least, please consider that in the meego plans, its just the
handhelp UX that is using QT for the default UI for sure. The netbook UI is
still gtk+clutter based and the other device families are yet to be defined in
this regard.

Stefan


> 
> Regards,
> Jamie.
> 
> 
> 
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