Re: What would you do to encourage application developers on GNOME Mobile?

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

2010/4/6 Quim Gil <quim gil nokia com>:
> Hi,
>
> ext Stormy Peters wrote:
>> In Maemo 5 and MeeGo, GTK+ is "community supported".
>
> Actually in Maemo 5 and MeeGo GTK+ is officially supported.
>
> The problem is that GTK+ alone is usually not enough for a friendly and
> elegant handset UX. This is why Maemo developed the Hildon Application
> Framework that is offering some of the great user experience of Maemo 5
> (Clutter also contributes).
>
> The original idea of this fund to the GNOME Foundation was to help
> getting more GTK+ based applications for Maemo 5 and also to help
> building a future path for them in future releases - now MeeGo Handset
> UX releases.

I see a big problem here (and maybe a interesting item to work)

Current hildon depends on a particular GTK+ 2.14 version branched for
maemo [1]. So hildon can't be compiled with mainstream GTK+.

Meego ships with GTK+ 2.19.7 [2], so maybe a good project would be
patch hildon so it can be compiled with current GTK+. Other idea could
be integrate some parts of hildon in GTK+ and make some porting guides
for current (Maemo5) applications.

I don't know what is the best solution, really.


[1] http://maemo.gitorious.org/hildon/gtk
[2] http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/devel/trunk/repo/ia32/os/i586/
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