<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <<a href="mailto:fluido@fluido.as">fluido@fluido.as</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Those apps are the heart of the phone, and I would not want to have<br>
C++/QT versions running on my phone.</blockquote></div><br><br>I really don't understand the sentiment there. If the app works well and gets the job done, why does it matter what language it's written in or what widget toolkit it uses? I could see not wanting a closed app on OM, but it sounds like there is source available. Ideally, all interaction at the API level could go through something like dbus and then you could write your plugin in LISP or BASIC for all anyone else cares. I doubt we are there yet, but it could be added as we go along. <br>
<br>Or, you could pick up the older GTK apps and finish them up. It sounds like the shipping apps are a placeholder to get a nice working phone for shipping Freerunner. It's an open platform, so switch them out if you want the other ones. Or improve the new ones. Or write new ones from scratch in Ruby. Whatever. :) <br>