Jolla has finally launched the first hints to their first hardware. Being an old N9 user, having dropped his phone, I really do want one. The N9 easily outperformed my current Samsung S3, despite its ancient hardware, so I’m really excited about what Jolla will be able to do with modern hardware. The specs are a bit [...]
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Changed behaviour in Qt 5 beta 2
So, I’ve taken the time to shift my development target at work to Qt 5 beta 2 (from beta 1). Most things work perfectly, however, qmake has changed its behaviour slightly – in a subtle evil way. First, some background. I’m building a QML plugin. When building it with beta 2, it no longer loads [...]
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Speaking at Qt Developer Conference
I’ve finally been able to find a time slot to try to summarize the Qt Developer Conference. This year I ended up spending lots of time in our booth, so I’ve visited surprisingly few talks. I’m really hoping that KDAB will be able to sort out the issues that they’ve had with audio, so that [...]
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Do not dash in deb
When building Harmattan apps using Qt Creator, it is important not to have dashes in your project name. If you do, the generated desktop file will refer to foo-bar, while the app binary and icon will be named foobar. It is a simple fix, but can be confusing at first. Symptoms: app starts when launching [...]
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Packaging Qt 5
As Qt 5 approaches alpha, it is more and more interesting to try using it outside the comfort of developer machines. For that, packages are needed. Thanks to vgrade I found the qt-spec-effort project on Gitorious. This git contains a nice script that populates an OBS with the Qt packages. Perfect for my needs. I [...]
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Building the QML Run-time
I visited OpenSourceDays 2012 this weekend. I did my presentation and met some people, but could not attend any other sessions. This was part due from the site being out of power when I got there (talk about Murphy at a large scale) and part because I wanted to enjoy beautiful Copenhagen with my family. [...]
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The Irony of the Real World
Qt does not sell mobiles. As a consumer, Qt is a technicality. Right now, the experience and availability of apps sell phones. Qt is just a tool for us developers to implement those experiences. Despite this, it is interesting to compare the Nokia N9 and the new WP7-based Lumia handsets. The market’s reaction to both, and [...]
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