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Will be interesting to see if they can "finish" kde4 before Nokia Trolltech rolls out version 5 of QT. Perhaps with their interest being a trifle fixated on cell phones at the present they will drag their feet a little WRT the desktop side of the house.
Once QT v5 becomes the 'officially supported' version Qt 4.x will be expected to go bye bye. Just like QT 3 before it. Then we can all look forward to v6 - rinse, lather, repeat...
-Mike
Trolltech was acquired by Nokia to enable easier cross platform development with a more advanced UI to that available to SymbianOS at the time of the takeover. While maemo is linux based, it is targeted at (Nokia) tablet style devices, Therefore further QT development is highly likely to be optimised for smartphone and tablet requirements. However, it will probably have a place in PC to phone communication. .
While Nokia has a dire record with opensource, until the trolltech development team is formally incorporated into Nokia, the proverbial brown sticky stuff is unlikely to hit the air circulation unit. AFAIK Nokia have no publicised plans to change the current situation.
well, if you didn't like the way Nokia used to treat open source, just hang on: "Nokia's Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Elop President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of September 21. Elop currently heads Microsoft's Business Division." cite: http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1443731 or, do should we guess a person with that background is gonna suddenly 'embrace' FOSS just because his new desk is in Finland?? [hint: i don't think so!] -- DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org