On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:56:22 +0200 cedric cellier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > 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. > > And we are supposed to think that the lack of homogeneous look n feel is > a bonus ? it's up to you. you can uninstall whatever you don't like. > Aside from that user perspective, what RAM is required if the phone runs > simultaneously some apps that use the three libraries ? very little. > > 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". it's a limiting view of the world. > > Sound like someone who've just coded "yet another toolkit" :) > > The geek designed phone is going to have more toolkits and languages > embedded than apps... it already does. every man and his dog wants "java" or "C#" or "ruby" or "perl" or "python" on it. deal with it. heterogeneity is a fact of life. no 1 size fits all. or from now on shall we decree that everything will only be C as it is what the kernel is written in and therefore anything else means the programming environment is non-homogeneous! -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community