Qt-Maemo

= News=   11 Dec 09 - Bye bye old static web pages.. all our pages are now in Maemo Wiki. Old website is here   .

= What is Qt?= Qt (pronounced as the English word "cute") is a cross-platform application development framework.

It is produced by Nokia's Qt Development Frameworks division, which came into being after Nokia's acquisition of the Norwegian company Trolltech.

Qt uses standard C++, but makes extensive use of the C pre-processor to enrich the language. Qt can also be used in several other programming languages via language bindings.

Distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (among others), Qt is free and open source software.

= Maemo Qt main features=
 * Hildon Style
 * Hildon Input Method
 * Optimizations
 * Hildon specific widget
 * partial support in Qt 4.5
 * Qt 4.6 will have full support

= Supported Maemo devices=
 * Nokia N800/N810 (OS2008/Maemo4.1/Diablo)
 * Nokia N900 (OS2009/Maemo5/Fremantle)

= Installing Qt=

N8x0 Supported Maemo version: 4.1 (Diablo)

Latest stable packages are into extras repository: deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ diablo free non-free

Testing packages are in extras-devel deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ diablo free non-free

Install Qt binaries onto the device: sudo gainroot && apt-get install libqt4-gui

Install Qt binaries and development packages into the SDK: fakeroot apt-get install libqt4-dev  N900 Supported Maemo version: 5 (Fremantle)

Qt core packages (qtcore, xml...) are pre-installed into the device. Rest of packages (GUI, webkit...) are in the Application repository (enabled by default in every device).

They are downloaded automatically when user install application packages that depends from those.

OVI store can host Maemo Qt Applications as well as other official Maemo repositories.

Qt 4.5 - community port core packages are already into the device.

- Installing Qt binaries into the device: sudo gainroot && apt-get install libqt4-gui

- Installing Qt binaries and development packages in scratchbox: fakeroot apt-get install libqt4-dev

Qt 4.6 is still underdevelopment. It's in extras-devel; To install Qt 4.6:

- Add add extras-devel repository to /etc/apt/source.list. You can do that adding following line to that file.

deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free non-free

- Run apt-get update

- Install lib packages into the device with: fakeroot apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-gui

- Install dev packages into the SDK with: fakeroot apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-dev

Note:

- Qt 4.6tp is installed to /opt/qt4-maemo5   .

=Available and proposed Qt Applications= If you want to port a Qt application to Maemo or if you want to check if an application you love has been already ported.. well this is the place you would like to check;

= Docs= Qt:
 * Qt 4 Hildon

Non-Qt stuff:
 * Fremantle:
 * Hildon 2.2 Widget UI Spec -PDF
 * Hildon 2.2 UI Style Guid -PDF
 * Diablo
 * ADD_SOMETHING_HERE
 * Other Docs
 * Forum Nokia Docs contain Maemo as well as other documentation related to other Nokia platforms.

= Bug tracking=
 * Diablo & Fremanlte Qt 4.5 port
 * View bug list
 * Report a new bug
 * Fremantle Qt 4.6 port
 * How to report a bug
 * Report a new bug
 * View bug list

= Code=
 * Qt 4.5 (Diablo)
 * http://gitorious.org/+qt-maemo-developers/qt/qt-maemo
 * Qt 4.5 (Fremantle)
 * http://gitorious.org/+qt-maemo-developers/qt/qt-maemo
 * Qt 4.6 (Fremantle)
 * http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/x11-maemo

= Contacting us=
 * IRC
 * Currently this is main and faster way to communicate with Qt 4.6 and Qt 4.5 developers.
 * Click here to join the #qt-maemo channel in frenode (irc.freenode.net).


 * Mailing list
 * Click here to Subscribe to the Qt community ML


 * Forums
 * Click here to enter the Forum Nokia Discussion board
 * Click here to enter Old garage.maemo.org Forum