There Lorn Potter, a Trolltech hacker, is happy to see one of his applications, GutenBrowser, running in maemo without any effort: “All it took was a recompile!”.

Ariya Hidaya, another Trolltech hacker, and Adam Treat (Manyoso) a KDE hacker and Member of the KDE e.V. tested and investigated the low graphic performance of Qt 4.4 on the N8×00 devices.

Looking forward to seeing new blogs of KDE people aggregated in Planet Maemo, I´ll continue working on Qt 4.4.1 packages.

The Maemo platform is growing up day by day and its good software and hardware attract every day new people.
Unfortunately not all of these people are able to program in GTK, since they don’t use linux or because they are KDE people.
Qt4maemo was born as a natural answer to this leak. I compiled and uploaded the first Qt4 packages when I hadn’t got a Maemo device yet. Less than 2 months ago I was contacted by Nokia to work fulltime on this project. Obviously I accepted and now I spend most of my time behind a monitor hacking Qt!

The Project:

• Why Qt?
  There are a lot of things that make Qt a good choice for developing your application: it has an intuitive library and you don’t need to change your code to run your application on your Desktop or Tablet. Qt integrates a lot of powerful tools easy to use, such as Webkit and Phonon.

• The Goals
  The aim of this project is to give to the community a Qt integrated in the hildon environment.
  Qt developers don’t need to learn new stuff and the hildonization of Qt is transparent to them.

• The Status
  The application menu bar has been hidden and its QActions are showed in a QMenu that popups when the user clicks the application title bar. The Quit action has been moved to the right menu position.
  The input method has been integrated, the IM popups when the keyboard is closed and a keywidget receives the focus. It also supports the sticky and the lock mode for the shift and Fn keys. The Compose key (”Ch” on the keyboard) works fine, so basically the on-screen and the hardware keyboard are pretty usable.
  The GTKStyle has been integrated in the source tree and it is used as default style. The other styles have been disabled in order to have a more slim library and this allows to save space on the device.
  The Qt package and its dependencies have been updated to diablo and they are available in the Qt4 repository.
  A lot of little stuff has been completed, such as the right QToolbar position and the QMessageBox size calculated with the available area dictated by the WM……

• The next steps.
  The next big step is moving the packages from the Qt4 garage repository into extras. Why is it a big step?
  Because in this way people can start to port their applications.  Qt4maemo is under development but is usable and the changes on the Qt4 code don´t involve changes in the application code.
  Obviously other important steps include completing the port and MAKING MORE people use Qt on maemo!

• Support
  I offer assistance via forum to everyone who needs help to port his application to maemo or who wants to package his Qt application.
  The forum is open for every discussion on the code as well.
  Usually my replies are quite fast and the posts can be anonymous, but it´s better for you that you log in before leaving a post so that you can immediately when I or someone else has replied.

• Thanks
  I can´t finish this post without saying thanks to all the people who helped me in this project, such as some Trolltech guys and Jott.
  I also want to thank Kate, not because she´s my boss, but because she’s very kind, and she’s able to surprise me with her big knowledge and experience.
  And last, but not least I want to thank Nokia for this experience and all the people who use and will use Qt on their tablet

The repository contains:

• Qt4 dependencies: binary and source packages.
• A snapshot of the hildonized Qt4 available in SVN.

For more information, visit the Qt4 diablo repository page.

This is my first experience abroad, and I´m really excited! Here I
should continue to work on the Qt4 port.

I feel very lucky to work on this project, because I think that Qt4maemo  is really important for KDE Developers and for people who use the pure Qt in others platforms (such as Mac OsX  and Windows) and who want to port or write their own applications for the Nokia Internet Tablet easily, fast and using powerful tools such as webkit or phonon.

I hope to have a lot of people around this project in order to test,
code and have fun togheter!
So I´m waiting for you all on the official Qt4 page at qt4.garage.maemo.org.
For every comment, idea and question the forum is open to everyone!

If you want to keep up-to-date on QGTKStyle changes, please check QGTKStyle page at google code .
Note: QGtkStyle is installable only via xterm. In order to install it, you simply need to run apt-get install qgtkstyle as root; So run qtconfig as not privileged user and select GTK as style.
Our forum is always open for any discussion about it, and you can use the tracker to report a bug in the package.