RE: use Gtk+ in phone devices

["YU Yijun RD-ILAB-PEK" <yijun yu rd francetelecom com>]

We will use Linux as the operating system since we want to build a Linux based smart phone solution;

For Window manager, we studied matchbox at this moment (Since it has already successfully used in GPE and MAEMO) and it could meet our requirements, though it also need some modification.

Regards
Yu Yijun

-----Original Message-----
From: gtk-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtk-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Antonio Gomes
Sent: 2005年8月27日 5:42
To: gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: use Gtk+ in phone devices

Hi mr YU,

This is a pretty good ideia. In fact, nowadays there are some
celphones  that use customized desktop stuffs running on them, I mean,
custimized WindowManager, and sure embedded Operation Systems. The
main problems (questions) concernig your question is :

** Which OS will you use ?!
** Witch WM will you use !?

And anwsering your former question: YES. We do need to customize the
GTK for your intentions, what means, you do need to hold it by your
hands and make it real :)

If you could anwser my previous questions, it would be a good start point.

regards

Toniniho

> Hi, re
> 
> We launched a project recently and want to develop an open source Linux
> smart phones based on Gtk+. It seems that there are some things need to do
> to tune Gtk+ to suit for phone devices and one of them is how to navigate
> and manipulate Gtk+ widgets using the limited buttons in phone keypad. 
> 
> As you know, usually there exist the following key buttons in phone keypad: 
> 
> Two function keys used to manipulate menu; Up/down/left/right arrow keys; Ok
> key; Call/hangup keys; 
> 
>   
> 
> Among the keys listed above, only arrow keys and Ok key will be used for
> widgets navigation and manipulation and keybinding is not acceptable.
> Therefore, my questions would be: 
> 
> 1. Do you guys think it is necessary to modify the source code of widgets in
> order to tune the widgets' behavior suitable for navigation in phone
> devices? 
> 
> 2. Which way of modification is easier to be accepted upstream by Gtk+, say,
> adding a new configuration option to Gtk+ and adding #ifdef to the source
> code of widgets? 


-- 
Antonio Gomes
E-mail: antonio gomes indt org br
Embedded Linux Lab - 10LE
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (Manaus/Br)
NOKIA's Technology Institute
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