On Fri, 16 May 2008 01:44:59 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > as such the software update has both qtopia on it as well as enlightenment > > as the wm - yes, some apps use etk too. "native look" really doesn't exist. > > there is no one homogeneous toolkit. qt has no changes made to its look and > > feel currently. gtk does ship on the device. choose the toolkit you like. i > > really do not like the whole mindset of "we must program in language X or > > use toolkit Y because the device happens to use it somewhere in some apps > > by default". > > I do agree... I always use a kind of hybrid system here (I use mixed > apps both for Gnome/Kde/Xfce... Anyway a GTK/Qt mixture :P), but I've > spent days to get an homogeneous look (I use Qtcurve now)... > > BTW, I think that there's an important thing, really more than the look > one: different applications that performs the same task should work on > the same dataset. I mean, if I've both an Openmoko SMS app, and a Qtopia > one I want them all read the same contacts and the same messages. > > Maybe actually it's hard to do so, since they would use different > libraries and backends, but I guess that in this "middle-time" we should > write some "syncing scripts" that perform this important, vital imho, > task (converting data between apps on each runtime)! yeah. this is actually the bigger problem we face in the longer run. standardising data stores and access to them etc. :) > Bye! > > -- > Treviño's World - Life and Linux > http://www.3v1n0.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community