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To be fair though, Nokia (and its Meego department) had close relationships with the KDE developer community due to Qt and if I recall correctly, even chose som
by andmarios 10y ago
To be fair though, Nokia (and its Meego department) had close relationships with the KDE developer community due to Qt and if I recall correctly, even chose some libraries from KDE applications (like KOffice/Calligra) to use in their mobile apps.
- digi_owl 10y agoYeah, at the tail end of the Maemo timeline Nokia bought Trolltech, the Norwegian company responsible for Qt. Earlier versions of Maemo had been using GTK. The intro of the Qt based Maemo 5 on the N900 effectively drove a wedge into the community, in particular as Nokia gave away N900s at the unveiling. At the same time Nokia and Intel could not agree on the structure of Meego, with Intel first going deb (same as Maemo) but then switching to rpm with Moblin2. In the end the whole mess was handed over to the Linux Foundation as both parties lost interest (Intel started Moblin in large part to light a fire under Microsoft to support mobile Atom).
- owaislone 10y agoQT and other KDE tech is pretty solid. No complains there. It's just that I can't bring myself to use their software because of the UI/UX. All they do is make things blue, transparent and big. I don't know what their fixation with desktop widgets is. No one uses that after a point. They get old real fast. A good shell should be invisible. It should let apps take the center stage but still keep everything readily available. I find KDE to be overly complex without making things easier. A lot of people will probably not like it but I find Unity to be an amazing desktop shell. It's completely gets out of your way and still gives you so much power. My only issue with Unity7 is that it sometimes gets a bit slow on relatively older hardware.