Phone functionality in GUI applications

[Nuutti Kotivuori]

Thomas Wood wrote:
> The reason we included the call handling GUI parts in PhoneKit was that
> we wanted to keep the number of processes running to a minimum. We
> started out thinking purely in terms of OpenMoko's requirements and we
> assumed GTK+ would be the "official" GUI toolkit. However, if there is
> demand for PhoneKit outside of OpenMoko, or even if OpenMoko decide to
> use another GUI library, it should be easy to do this. I would suggest
> using a very simply plugin system such as a shared (or even static)
> library would be sufficient.

How about integrating this with the home (today) application? I think
it fits there better since that application already has an X
connection, is always on and already takes some system management
responsibilities (such as task switching etc.). Also, if somebody
wants to replace home with something else, it is very conceivable that
the call handling will have to be somewhat different as well.

> The most important thing is to get the correct balance between
> modularity and abstraction, against the requirements of speed and
> low resource usage.

Definitely!

-- Naked