Will GTK be used in Openmoko?

[Shachar Shemesh]

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:19:31 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>
> babbled:
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>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:58:48 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>
>>> babbled:
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>> I will do my best to show you more respect than you have obviously shown 
>> me. No promises.
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> ok. excuse me. but i did not show any disrespect.
Calling what I say "babbling" seems disrespectful to me.
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> yes. indeed. if we do it by population or by country count. the MAJORITY (most
> - greater than 50%) use a language that DISPLAYS perfectly well left to right 1
> character at a time.
I'll skip the rest of the email, because we really don't want to turn 
this into a flame war.

Like I said, adding display support to a toolkit, especially where the 
machine already has the required libraries, is a piece of cake. 
Answering Karsten, yes, if OpenMoko ends up using EFL, I will add BiDi 
support to the display. I have done it before and know whats required. 
It is NOT the display that worries me, and I have not seen you address 
that point in my mail. I hate to see you disregard a need merely because 
of emotional investment in a toolkit.

Operating a phone requires much more than merely displaying text. I 
think it unsmart to not take that fact into consideration when choosing 
a toolkit.

Shachar