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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by seba_dos1 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:56AM (#25148982)
Be aware that Qt's widget library isn't exactly well-suited for mobile usage and mobile apps usually use QtQuick with frameworks like Kirigami.

PureOS Amber unfortunately has a too old Qt to be able to say that it's a "first-class citizen" there :( It's going to change with a coming version that's based on Debian Bullseye though. Meanwhile, Qt apps run very well in Flatpak on Amber already.

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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by swebs on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:45AM (#25149338)
>Be aware that Qt's widget library isn't exactly well-suited for mobile usage

How so? It's my understanding that QT has been the industry standard for embedded systems.

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Re:Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping by seba_dos1 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:49AM (#25151350)
If you make your own UI, yes. But if you make a desktop-style application that's supposed to adapt its UI to small touchscreens, you're going to have a hard time with Qt Widgets. Even KDE uses Qt Quick for its adaptive apps.
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