Motorola has responded to the news earlier this week that rival Nokia plans to purchase Trolltech, long-time supplier of the graphical development framework used in Motorola's Linux phones. In a nutshell, the response boils down to, "We were over Qt, anyway."

Christy Wyatt, who heads up Motorola's software platforms and ecosystems group, told LinuxDevices, "A year ago, we announced that we had founded LiMo [the Linux Mobile Foundation], along with five other companies, to collaborate on mobile Linux [story]. Since then, many other companies have joined. As part of its first specification, LiMo specifies GTK, and we intend to comply."

Wyatt admitted that Motorola has no definitive "cut-over date" yet planned for switching from Qt to GTK. She said, "We did evaluate qt4. What we're using is an older version. Limo hasn't published that part of the framework yet, and there's really been no reason for us to rush ahead of the Foundation in moving to GTK."

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