[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't usually use mailing lists, so I hope it's not bad etiquette just > to say hi!
Probably. But you're not just saying hi, you've got a couple of good questions here. > I've bought a Neo Freerunner and debug board - all looks pretty good so > far. This is my first real use of Linux and I'm beginning to feel like > I'm throwing myself off the deep end a bit, but I'm a self-taught Congrats on making it this far. Believe me when I say that as a programmer you might find it difficult to go back to whatever non-unixy OS you used to use. It's addictive. ;) > What really interested me about this project however was the possibility > that I might be able to get into the user interface development a bit. I > have a few ideas for a mobile GUI that I'd like to put into practice. So I think you should probably get started with "themes". In the various windowing toolkits that are in use there are themes that control how widgets are drawn and such. For example, the GTK theme files are here: /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc See this ML post: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025711.html There should be similar mechanisms for theming the other toolkits, such as qtopia somewhere as well. So, that allows you to control the appearance of the existing widgets and such. Next you'll need to actually start changing the code of the apps that actually draw the widgets. You'll need to download the development environment and start looking at the code. Which is beyond my abilities right now, but there is a bit of info floating around on the ML and in the wiki about getting this all set up. HTH! :) Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
