Re: Hildon on MeeGo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 12:31 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> > Maemo GTK+ is in gitorious [1]. All changes needed for Maemo 5 are
> > marked with #ifdef MAEMO_CHANGES, and no, there is no updated list of
> > these changes nor individual patches that can be analyzed separately.
> > One would need to go through the git log reviewing the changes one by
> > one to achieve that.
> > 
> > It was my intention to get the people involved in the project to spend
> > some time to split these changes in individual patches, but time was
> > scarce, workload was high, and this task is quite time-consuming, so it
> > was never done.
> > 
> > However, I believe that starting fresh from a pristine and recent GTK+
> > tarball, one can experiment to get at least pure GTK+ applications
> > running and then move on to forward-port whatever is necessary out of
> > Maemo 5 GTK+.
> 
> Related to this, I've just thought of something else:
> 
> * If someone did the work to get Maemo GTK+ changes upstream to support
> Hildon on a stock GTK+, those changes would be available in GTK+ 3.0,
> but not in any 2.x release
> * MeeGo have said that they're not going to move to GTK+ 3
> 
> So what motivation is there to get the Maemo GTK+ work upstream?

AFAIK this is statement was targeted towards the MeeGo netbook version.
The MeeGo handset version will not contain any GTK+ by default.

Hildon for netbooks is probably not really interesting, so I think we
have to create a GTK+ version and a Hildon version that targets MeeGo
handset only.

That's also the reason why I was suggesting earlier, that we could try
to use the current Maemo5 GTK+ and Hildon versions. The GTK+ version is
of course a bit outdated, but I don't think that's too bad. At least it
would be a start and maybe easier to accomplish than targeting the most
recent GTK+ version.

Cheers,
Conny