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

[Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org>]

My memory (quite old) was that Maemo branched at the time that GTK+ 
moved to Cairo, as, at the time, there was no optimized ARM code paths 
in Cario, so performance was bad relative to x86, where mmx code already 
had been implemented.

I think Cairo has since gotten quite a bit of TLC for performance on 
ARM, though more may be needed.
			- Jim


Javier Jardón wrote:
> 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/