Make Ubuntu desktop a better platform for App Developers

[Ma Xiaojun]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> with unity next entering the desktop the default toolkit will be Qt and
> the promoted IDE (as it already is for ubuntu touch) will be QtCreator
>
> I would assume with Mir and unity next entering the desktop in 13.10 the
> desktop developer focus will shift a little wrt toolkits ...

At least for 13.04 the GNOME/GTK+ stack is still used in the core desktop Apps.

> for mobile apps created with the new ubuntu-sdk there will be very
> likely some packaging mechanism included (yet to be worked out by the
> platform team, it could be dpkg but also something else that works per
> user (or even a mix of this)) i would expect some discussion to start
> soon on ubuntu-devel or so. this is a bigger issue than just "how do we
> make devs package their apps" since in the converged world there will
> likely have to be newly invented mechanisms. after all there should be
> something included in the ubuntu-sdk that will just have a "create
> package" button in the end so that the developer doesnt get bothered
> with details at all ..

That would be cool, though it seems only relevant to Qt based development.