Software Status Update

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Thu May 15 11:50:50 CEST 2008


On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:36:36 +0100 "Ivo Anjo" <knuckles at gmail.com> babbled:

as we are not shipping any gtk apps... not much of an issue at the moment. the
community is free to package up anything they like. :)

> Hi.
> 
> Would it be possible to use something like
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/ on
> Qtopia? With this, qt should follow the current gtk theme, and so apps
> would be more consistent.
> 
> Ivo Anjo
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:33 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
> <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:36:44 -0700 "steve" <steve at openmoko.com> babbled:
> >
> >> Raster, can you address the enlightenment issue mentioned below. I'd just
> >> beclown myself if I tried.
> > ...
> >
> >> Since the last time someone made some prodding was successful, may
> >> I ask for some official news on the software side?
> >>
> >> I'm guessing it's everything at
> >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework (which that page says
> >> will be in alpha version next month) and
> >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NeoSoftwareStack (which really does raise
> >> the question of how Android is expected to fit into this, and what some
> >> of the new applications like illume, assassin, pidjin, etc really are).
> >>
> >> Or maybe it's the test cases and test reports being publicly posted?
> >>
> >> Btw, how deeply is enlightenment going to be involved in the OM
> >> software? Are applications going to need to be programmed with EFL to
> >> have a native look-and-feel on the Freerunner?
> >
> > as such the software update has both qtopia on it as well as enlightenment
> > as the wm - yes, some apps use etk too. "native look" really doesn't exist.
> > there is no one homogeneous toolkit. qt has no changes made to its look and
> > feel currently. gtk does ship on the device. choose the toolkit you like. i
> > really do not like the whole mindset of "we must program in language X or
> > use toolkit Y because the device happens to use it somewhere in some apps
> > by default". it's a limiting view of the world. use what you work best
> > with. EFL is good for doing custom UI's (like WM's, media centers even
> > filemanagers etc.). it's less strong at "standard boring run-of-the-mill
> > widgets" but can do it fairly easily. qt is good for standard widget sets
> > if u like c++.
> >
> > --
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>
> >
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