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Ubuntu Mobile Looks At Qt As GNOME Alternative
Derwent sends along a Computerworld piece which begins: "The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME. During a presentation at this year's linux.conf.au conference, Canonical's David Mandala said Ubuntu Mobile has changed a lot over the past year... 'I worked on ARM devices for many years so a full Linux distribution on ARM is exciting,' Mandala said, adding one of the biggest challenges is reminding developers to write applications for 800 by 600 screen resolutions found in smaller devices. 'The standard [resolution] for GNOME [apps] is 800 by 600, but not all apps are. For this reason Ubuntu Mobile uses the GNOME Mobile (Hildon framework) instead of a full GNOME desktop, but since Nokia open sourced Qt under the LGPL it may consider this as an alternative.'"
I know it's probably just bad luck, or some ignorance on my part, but I gotta say that I bloody hate Qt. There are loads of applications I would like to run that use it, but every time I try to compile one I go through the same soul destroying and ultimately fruitless process.
@ Canonical: Your download and version explanation system is a shambles. I don't want loads of versions and licences to read. I dont want Java script required to get it. I want a simple installer that works on my Debian system or a bog standard ./configure + make all process.
Why do you make your software so hard to use?
Look at this webpage: http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/opensource
** Application Development or Device Creation. **
WTF? What is that all about to someone who just wants to run an application that uses Qt?
** Choose platform and programming language **
Why the hell am I even looking at this when I just want to run an application?
I know my comment will be burried for saying this, but this kind of crap is what we all know is wrong with open source software. The front end delivery is done by geeks and bean counters who don't actually use the products as end users.
If you want Qt widely used you need to make it easy to get and install.
Actually, I do, and I've done a lot of Qt programming.
Your sarcasm is made of pure fail.