Re: future of Hildon

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Gour schrieb:
> Hiya!
> 
> 
> In last days I'm researching the Net to find out what would be the best
> platform to focus on for developing a 'lite' version of desktop app
> meant to be run on devices like Nokia N900 - I'm not sure if this
> device falls in the category of MID or smart-phones.
> 
> Since I plan to use Haskell with GTK+ bindings for desktop app, I'd
> like to stay with GTK+ libs and to minimise the effort of porting the
> app for MID/smart-phone.
> 
> The N900 runs on Maemo-5 which uses Hildon framework, but it is already
> known that Harmattan will be based on Qt and the Hildon will be
> 'community-supported' as I'm told from the people workin on Mer. 
> 
> It certainly means it will have some more life, but I'm curious what is
> the future of further development of Hildon framework? Does
> GNOME-mobile has something else on the plate?
> 
> The natural alternative to Maemo/Hildon(Mer) is, of course, Moblin, but
> based on the info I've collected so far, it's dubious if Intel will be
> able to provide smart-phone based on Moorestown platform or we'll have
> to wait for its Medfield successor?
> 
> Moblin Core doc* says: "Moblin Core is built on the GNOME Mobile
> platform...",  and "Moblin Core will follow the GNOME Mobile 6 month
> release cycle (starting with 2.26 in 2009) staying in sync, retaining
> compatibility and contributing improvements back to the GNOME Mobile
> and Desktop platforms." so I wonder if one wants to develop with GTK+,
> does it mean that Moblin is better option providing, at least, the same
> support for both GTK & Qt which, I believe, is not the case with
> Nokia's Maemo?
> 
> *(http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/moblin-core 

There are no plans to break gtk+ functionality on maemo right now. SO if you use
a gtk+ ui you can probably make it buildable for both maemo and moblin.

Stefan


> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
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