Will GTK be used in Openmoko? (was: Re: Software Status Update)

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 08:17:27 +0200 Stefan Gojan
<bassdscho at hoschi.is-a-geek.org> babbled:

> 
> 
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schrieb:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:56:41 +0200 "Flemming Richter Mikkelsen"
> > <quatrox at gmail.com> babbled:
> > 
> >> On 5/15/08, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <quatrox at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> People that want to use Qt prob. prefer Qtopia over OM, so I think GTK is
> >>> the only correct thing.
> >> Just a comment on what I wrote:
> >> I think people should use what they like, but that if anything should be
> >> "official", it should be GTK+.
> > 
> > hooray! someone thinking openly! :)
> > 
> > i shall repeat:
> > 
> > we SHIP GTK. it is there., on the rootfs. even if it were not - the moment
> > you add a gtk app it would be installed as a dependency!.
> > 
> > we SHIP QT (qtopia). it is there. the qtopia phone app suite ships - it
> > uses it.
> 
> Sorry I'm confused (cause I'm new to OM?!), this wiki page tells me not 
> to use QT: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Why_Not_QT
> But you said OM phone suite use it -> I'm confused
> 
> I'm new to graphical development with C++, so I don't prefer a toolkit 
> yet. I want learn to use the toolkit which used by OM so my apps look 
> familiar to the rest of my mobile software.

the page is old, and out of date. i was not involved in that page. qt is there
because of management decisions at openmoko. the wiki does not govern company
management decisions. :) it is on the phone. as is gtk. as are other toolkits.

> > 
> > we SHIP EFL (evas, edje, ecore, etk etc. etc.). it is there. it is used by
> > the WM, launcher, "panels", virtual keyboard, and a few extra apps.
> > 
> > if you find you need more toolkits - why not? lets talk about having them
> > possibly on by default and configured to look decent. of course we can't go
> > adding ones that only 1 app uses, by default that is, but as above - they
> > get sucked in as dependencies if an app really needs it when it is
> > installed.
> > 
> 
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