Beta release of Qt Creator 2.2
The Qt IDE team have released a beta of version 2.2 of the development environment for Symbian, MeeGo and Maemo. The announcement says, Qt Creator got a range of useful new features, and a huge number of big fixes and improvements. Let me start by thanking our contributors, especially Hugues Delorme who implemented Bazaar VCS support, and Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos who contributed support for recording and playing text editing macros. [...] The list goes ever ever on, with a real whole lot of fixes and improvements to QML coding support, tool chains to being configurable manually (a surprisingly big refactoring), a valgrind based mem check integration added (Debug->Analyzer) for Linux and Mac, an editor for GL shader language, real quoting and shell syntax when specifying program’s command line arguments, …. . The new version should be able to be used as part of an existing Qt SDK installation.
Official support in Qt Creator for uploading to Maemo Extras
Your editor has picked up the Qt SDK again recently and was pleased to be pointed at this page in the official documentation for the next version, describing how to build source packages for uploading to Extras-devel and the maemo.org autobuilder: You can use the Publish for Fremantle Extras-devel Free Repository wizard to create a source archive and, optionally, upload it to a build server for compiling and packaging. The package is then moved to the Extras-devel repository. From there on, you must follow the standard Maemo processes to get the application published to Extras. The wizard checks that the package contains all the information that is required to publish applications on Extras: package description and Package Manager icon. For more information about entering this information, see Creating Debian Installation Packages. The feature should be part of the Qt Creator 2.2 release (although its presence in the above beta has not been confirmed).
QBadgeButton for displaying notification counts
Benoît HERVIER has posted some Python code from an upcoming version of his Twitter client, Khweeteur, which shows red numbers over a button - typically used to show unread message counts: In order to display a notification on QPushButton or a QToolButton i've created this two little python class derivated from QPushButton or QToolButton. This display a counter in a red badge like on some icons on iOS (iPhone) or MacOSX. This subclasses was primary made for the next khweeteur version. Your editor finds in-app notifications of the different types of information one of the things missing in most Maemo Twitter clients.
DON - Develop on N900
Talk user "humble" has posted a deb which aims to install the Maemo SDK... on Maemo. He says this project was started because, I wanted to be able to tweak NXEngine and compile quickly. I stumbled up upon the thread up there. Then that took back seat due to i was tweaking this. but now I'm able to. The script is distributed as a deb file on a forum thread, is run as root and is intended to reconfigure the foundations of your phone. Care (and a possible audit of the script) may be advised.