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

["Dr. Michael Lauer" <mickey vanille-media de>]

> Another thing. Someone (Dave?) commented that the effort should
> concentrate on MeeGo, but it's worth thinking of short-term actions for
> bringing more GTK+ based apps to Maemo 5 and the N900. This is where the
> users can be found now, Maemo 5 is the best showcase of a GTK+ based
> handset UI and this is btw where many application developers with a GTK+
> background are considering alternatives right now.
> 
> So one idea could be:
> 
> - Half (or something) of the fund to be put in a contest or something to
> get great GNOME apps ported to Maemo 5.
> 
> - Half (or something) to be put in a hackfest or something to bring the
> best of Nokia's GTK+/Hildon to mainline & MeeGo.
> 
> If both actions are addressed properly, you would get many GNOME apps
> now for Maemo 5 with a clear path forward into MeeGo.

I see. Thanks for finally clearing up what this is about – it's not about
GNOME Mobile [*] , but rather about GTK Mobile, so anything beyond the UI
or application level definitely falls off the radar here. No cookie for us then :)

Cheers,

:M:

[*] Not that there would be a consistent view of what GNOME Mobile is
in the first place, which Nils' survey last year (of which we are still waiting
for a result *cough*) demonstrated.