Re: About MeeGo's GTK+

[Quim Gil <quim gil nokia com>]

Quim Gil wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Background:
> 
> The Maemo 5 UI is based on the Hildon Application framework , which is
> based on GTK+. We announced a long time ago that Maemo would use an
> application framework based on Qt instead, and now that plan is part of
> MeeGo. In the Maemo context the future of GTK+/Hildon was drawn as
> "community supported". We started discussing with some community
> maintainers and with Stormy about how to support the kick-off of that
> activity.
> 
> But now MeeGo brings official support for GTK+ (and Clutter) based
> applications, as explained at http://meego.com/developers/meego-architecture
> 
> Looking only at boxes in "markitecture" diagrams it looks like we have a
> nice story. In reality though there are some questions that go down to
> the real code and their maintainers:
> 
> - What is the interest of GNOME application developers in the MeeGo
> platform?
> 
> - How different is the upstream GTK+ from Moblin's GTK+ and Maemo's GTK+?

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> 
> - How useful do you see in that context Hildon as a glue to provide
> native behavior and look & feel to GTK+ based apps in MeeGo?
> 
> - What is the work that needs to be done and who is willing to push it?
> 
> I have been discussing with Stormy about a budget we have from the Maemo
> team to help activities related to that initial "GTK+ community
> support". That budget was approved in order to bring GNOME apps to Maemo
> (5 & 6) and we are happy to keep it if that is helpful for Maemo 5 & MeeGo.
> 

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia