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Front Page
- Digia acquires Qt. Now "responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia"
Applications
- New 'sowatch' screenshots teased for MetaWatch users
Development
- New SDL port for Harmattan
- Widgets Engine for Harmattan, technical preview 1
Community
- Minutes of August 3rd Maemo Community Council meeting

Front Page

Digia acquires Qt. Now "responsible for all the Qt activities formerly carried out by Nokia"

Digia - the company that previously obtained the commercial licensing of Qt from Nokia - has acquired the remaining portions on Qt. Digia expresses an interest in maintaining the current dual-licensing scheme (open source and commercial) and is "Committed to [a] Thriving Qt Ecosystem". One of Digia’s key objectives with this acquisition is to improve its position within the Qt ecosystem by further strengthening Qt’s R&D capabilities and expanding its reach on many more platforms than ever before. Since Digia acquired the Qt Commercial licensing business from Nokia in March 2011, the operation has continued to be successful and has grown substantially. Digia forecasts the acquisition’s impact on its 2012 revenues to be positive. In the following years, Digia forecasts the Qt business to grow. Here's hoping Qt continues to get the level of support it deserves from Digia and the community.

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New 'sowatch' screenshots teased for MetaWatch users

Via: @GeneralAntilles

Editor: Ryan Abel

Javier S. Pedro teased some screenshots of the work he's doing on the new version of his SmartOpenWatch framework showing GUI control of settings and watch configuration (older versions required setup via a configuration file). You can find the latest code on sowatch's gitorious project page.

Development

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New SDL port for Harmattan

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Ville Syrjälä announced on the Maemo Developer mailing list an updated SDL port with the following features: EGL/GLES2 based, no pvr2d stuff; Always uses a shadow buffer, because preserved flips aren't supported on the platform; Automagically scales the application content to fullscreen using the GPU; Software access to hardware surfaces implemented with glFinish() and EGL_KHR_lock_surface. I initially tried to use EGL_KHR_fence_sync instead of glFinish() but there seemed to be some flushing bug left in the driver causing problems. glFinish() should be OK on pvr, but on some other hardware it could be a problem. So it's not the most portable solution; Supports color keyed and alpha blended blits. Only color keying has actually been tested; some SDL tests, uqm and scummvm seem to work reasonably well This hardware accelerated version for Harmattan sounds quite interesting, but it also sounds like there is still a bit of work to do (mostly testing) that the originator is looking for someone with some free time to do.

Widgets Engine for Harmattan, technical preview 1

Editor: Ryan Abel

@SfietKonstantin has released a technical preview for his new widget engine for Harmattan: Many of you may know that I’m working on a widget engine for Harmattan, but that can be ported to Nemo, or any platform supported by Qt. After a long time working on it, refactoring a lot, and adding features, I will release the widgets engine soon. Jaffa2, SfietKonstantin

Read more (sfietkonstantin.wordpress.com)

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Minutes of August 3rd Maemo Community Council meeting