[Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

[Atlant Schmidt]

Ross:

> Increasingly I'm feeling like Nokia's internal priorities
> are being attended to and Qt Commercial customers are
> "just along for the ride".

  As the old saying goes: "He who pays the piper calls the
  tune"; Nokia bought TrollTech so they would finally have
  a decent UI framework on their Symbian phones to replace
  the awful, dated AVKON/S60. And the fact that Qt could
  be extended to Maemo, err, MeeGo to provide an upwards-
  compatible API for all the new app developers that they
  were going to attract was a significant plus as well.
  But they had no particular interest in the development
  of desktop apps.

  That didn't work out, of course, and now Nokia has no
  interest in Qt at all; Symbian is in "milk the customer
  base" mode, MeeGo is declared nothing more than a hobby,
  and Microsoft will actively (and probably successfully)
  resist Qt coming to Nokia Windows Phone and will resist,
  as much as they can, Qt's success anywhere else.

  Any further aggressive development that Qt sees will come
  either from:

    1) The user base, or

    2) Someone buying TrollTech away from Nokia and resuming
       normal commercial operations of that business.


  Otherwise, the *CURRENT* piper (Microsoft, whether directly
  or by proxy) will pay only for Qt's funeral dirges to be
  played.

                               Atlant


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Ross Bencina
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 05:56
To: Sean Harmer; qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

Sean Harmer wrote:
> OK it would be nice to see some more QWidget based widgets made but finite
> resources prohibit everything being developed concurrently.

That was the OP's point wasn't it? Nokia are putting resources into QML
while the rest of the GUI framework gets little love. I'm sure I'm not alone
in feeling like what I pay for (a cross platform GUI framework) is not being
improved, but rather "what Nokia wants" is being improved and added.

Increasingly I'm feeling like Nokia's internal priorities are being attended
to and Qt Commercial customers are "just along for the ride".


> I would personally
> like to see some more use of QGraphicsView itemview-ng for example. With
> Open
> Governance coming everybody will be able to pitch in and lend a hand in
> areas
> that they deem important.

Does that mean Qt Commercial customers will get separate representatives
that champion customer needs over Nokia/MeeGo priorities?


Ross.

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