Re: Hildon on MeeGo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

Hi again :)

Just another idea: Wouldn't it make sense to take this discussion to the
gtk-list? Probably the people who could help with that can be found
there?! Also Stormy, what happened at May 20th? What did the Board of
Directors say? Was anything decided?

Thanks!
Conny



On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:08 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I'm a simple application developer having one Gtk/Hildon application
> available for the Nokia N800, N810 and N900 - so I'll argue from that
> perspective.
> 
> First of all, I think the question is not how to encourage application
> developers on GNOME Mobile. Without any serious platform running GNOME
> Mobile we don't need developers for it.
> 
> I think, the question is: How do we get Hildon running on MeeGo
> handsets? To me that's a purely technical subject and has nothing to do
> with politics and other "what might happen in the future" stuff that has
> been discussed here.
> 
> So what is the best way to solve those technical problems? Why not start
> with collecting those problems? Then we can see whether or not there are
> people able/willing to do the work. If there are none, we need to buy
> them. The good thing is that it's possible because there is some money.
> 
> To me, the most important thing is, to get Hildon apps running on MeeGo
> as soon as possible. It's not bad if we break the API and it's not bad
> if it doesn't completely blend with MeeGo's native UI. The important
> thing is to get it running. If we don't get it running, we will loose
> almost all current Gtk/Mobile developers plus the only recent hardware
> that will run this software.
> 
> Again, we should focus on the _technical_ difficulties on bringing
> Hildon/Gtk to MeeGo devices, then see how to best solve those problems
> and completely forget about other ideas like "motivating new application
> developers", etc...
> 
> BTW, javispedro (GSOC) is already working on one important aspect of
> those technical problems.
> http://javispedro.com/blog/2010/05/gsoc2010-gtkim-for-meegoimui.html
> 
> Comments are welcome of course :)
> 
> Thanks!
> Conny
> 
> 
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