As I understand it the new GTK mobile initiative will really be focusing on performance on mobiles. I don't think the software is there yet, or the all of the hard ware. Personally I'm not too concerned with the speed of the GUI... yet.
<br><br>That and it sounds like the next hardware revision will be using a GPU to render the gui. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tomasz Zielinski</b> <<a href="mailto:tomasz.zielinski@gmail.com">
tomasz.zielinski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2007/6/6, Fabien <<a href="mailto:fleutot+openmoko@gmail.com">
fleutot+openmoko@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>> And I think openmoko can lead to real improvements in this domain, if:<br>[...]<br>> - some people with the right social skills make the UI improvement effort<br>> run smoothly.
<br><br>iPhone is fascinating because it's GUI is so responsive and so smooth.<br><br>Unfortunately, current OpenMoko GUI running on GTA01 is exactly<br>opposite - every icon tap causes lag, busy indicator isn't too
<br>reliable and user experience is hit by overall slowness.<br><br>As we know, much less powered machines (like 7MHz Amiga with Workbench<br>and even 1MHz C64 with Geos) had enough resources to provide rich and<br>usable user interface. I mentioned PalmOS some time ago - it executed
<br>programs in-place so most apps started literally in half a second.<br><br>Question to FIC Team an/or other embedded developers: is it possible<br>to speed up OpenMoko GUI responsiveness by a factor of 10 or the<br>guilty is too-multi-tiered architecture of Xorg/GTK/Matchbox set?
<br><br>If with GTK/Matchbox we cannot achieve such rich, fluid and, erm...,<br>fluid GUI as iPhone, maybe it's not too late to drop GTK and choose<br>other framework, designed for mobile devices and running quick<br>
framebuffer operations? GameBoy provided nice full-screen animations<br>in 1989, eighteen years ago.<br><br>I'm 100% sure nobody will cry after pure-X11 applications we loose<br>this way. Almost every GTK application would require rewriting/porting
<br>to fit OpenMoko capabilities, so it's not great loss too. Not to<br>mention font and other DPI-aware issues.<br><br>If OpenMoko will be judged as "poor's man iPhone look and feel", it<br>won't be attractive ever. To attract public attention we need at least
<br>one demo application which can animate elegant GUI with colorful<br>widgets (e.g. album covers) as nice and smooth as we saw at iPhone<br>commercials. If it cannot be done, it will be hard to advertise Neo,<br>because youtube screencasts is today primary way people become
<br>acquainted with new device's user interfaces.<br><br>--<br>Tomek Z.<br><a href="mailto:tomasz.zielinski@gmail.com">tomasz.zielinski@gmail.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list
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