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

[Quim Gil <quim gil nokia com>]

Hi,

ext Jamie Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 22:43 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>> Am 05.05.2010 22:27, schrieb Mike Turquette:
>>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jamie Bennett <jamie linuxuk org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:25 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Last but not least, please consider that in the meego plans, its just the
>>>>> handhelp UX that is using QT for the default UI for sure. The netbook UI is
>>>>> still gtk+clutter based and the other device families are yet to be defined in
>>>>> this regard.
>>>> Can you please point me to the documentation that says the netbook UI
>>>> will be gtk+clutter now and for the next releases, I must of missed
>>>> that?
>>> I too would like to know the final word on this.  I keep hearing
>>> whispers of GTK+/Clutter in Meego, but nothing solid.
>> Gtk+/Clutter is listed here:
>> http://meego.com/developers/meego-architecture
>> and thats what moblin uses for the UI also.
> 
> It is well known that Gtk+ and Clutter will be used for the first
> iteration, it is also well known that Gtk+ and Clutter will be replaced
> by Qt after this release.

Source? At least this is not well known by me.  :) GTK+/Clutter are
supposed to be in future releases as well.

No idea about the long term. But even if a library is not officially
supported at some point the maintainers can still support it themselves,
right?

The question for the GNOME project is whether it wants to make sure that
GNOME technologies will be available for developers in that platform. If
we talk about mobile platforms, what are the implications for GNOME of
not using MeeGo as a reference platform? Are there better strategic
candidates to choose?

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
MeeGo Devices @ Nokia