Paul Todd's Forum Nokia Blog - QT for S60 announced!

mgroeber9110 — 2008-10-29T10:43:48Z

For me, this video is actually the first time that I see QT for S60, and my first impression has actually been - somewhat skeptical.

The reason is that apart from the cool "cover flow" style effects (here's hoping that these will work on keypad-only phones as well...) the actual UI examples appear to depart quite a long way from the "Style Guide" for S60 application so far. So even though this makes portability of applications from other platforms easier, it may on the flipside lead to a further fragmentation of the user interface on the device.

As far as I understand, QT is quite strongly based on the notion of declarative UI, so there may be a chance of final applications looking more S60-ish. Until then, the idea of "tabbing" through a series of slides, buttons etc. just seems out of place on a UI where most of the native apps are built around screens of usually very straightforward lists of choices.

[Disclaimer: I am somewhat biased from working on our TALKS screen reader, whose users depend on consistency in application UIs probably more than most, so I am quite sensitive to introduction of new control frameworks that may work with a certain form of interaction, but do not translate well to other modalities and form factors...]

ooh nice

coultonp — 2008-10-23T16:07:40Z

Cool more toys

The link

cyke64 — 2008-10-21T00:54:12Z

http://trolltech.com/products/device-creation/videos/how-to-get-qt-running-on-your-s60-phone

Great webinar on QT !

cyke64 — 2008-10-20T23:02:23Z

Hello ,

They make a video how to install QT preview on PC (which SDK download etc .

Now you have to excuse to try it now ! :-D

Well done Nokia !

I hope that PyQTS60 is coming soon ...

hartti — 2008-10-20T19:51:32Z

Dang Paul, you beat me to this story...
The video in here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhba1lhBllM shows Qt running on 3 different smartphone platforms (yeah, yeah, the link is available on the Qt labs blog post as well...)