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

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:28:15 -0400 "Geoff Ruscoe" <gcruscoe at sigmavisions.com>
babbled:

> I think gtk should definitely be part of the platform.  As far as I know the
> Java Swing hooks are for gtk.  Since its shipping with Java it should be
> able to use the gtk, right?
> 
> Plus as far as I can tell the ruby and python hooks for gtk are slightly
> cleaner and easier than working with qt.  So from a developer standpoint I
> think we're better off with gtk.
> 
> Thoughts?

again. read my email. the device ships with gtk. it just has no apps using it.

> 
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Tim Shannon <shannon.timothy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hm, this is all new to me.  Has anyone tried grabbing the qtopia keyboard
> > and using it with openmoko?  If the libraries are all there, it shouldn't be
> > a problem right?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM, David Samblas Martinez <
> > dsamblas at yahoo.es> wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry me if this has been said in other post, but if
> >> gtk is not the "default" graphical library  what
> >> library gonna be ETK the "official" one?  Just to
> >> document me for future apps(ideas) in mind
> >> --- Mo Abrahams <moabrahams at dashavoo.com> escribió:
> >>
> >> > I was wondering about that too. Personally I would
> >> > rather have stuck
> >> > with GTK, but in the grand scheme of things I will
> >> > be doing less coding
> >> > than other people I imagine.
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:31 -0700, Michael Shiloh
> >> > wrote:
> >> > > Have we made the decision then to officially move
> >> > away from GTK? This
> >> > > was asked on the community list awhile ago, and
> >> > IIRC there has been no
> >> > > "official" answer.
> >> > >
> >> > > Michael
> >> > >
> >> > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > 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. :)
> >> > > >
> >> > >
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> Geoff Ruscoe
> Sigma Visions Computer Consulting


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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>