Matthew Allum wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:54 -0800, Albert Chang wrote:
>> Hi, there:
>>
>> I know Hildon is about to be removed from the upcoming Moblin2 but
>> I do not know exactly "why"? I mean, what's wrong with Hildon such
>> that Moblin2 would like to discard it away and reconstruct something
>> similar to Hildon by Clutter? Is there anyone know what's the
>> reasons behind this decision?
>>
>
> Clutter takes a different approach than Hildon (i.e GTK+) running on
> top of the GPU (i.e OpenGL) and offering a toolkit to build fast,
> more modern, animated and bespoke device user interfaces with
> features like 3D and physics. I dont see it as much as what is wrong
> with Hildon but more an evolution in device capability's and the UI
> technologies also evolving as to best take advantage.
>
> Also note Maemo ('home' of Hildon) have announced they also intend to
> use Clutter in the future;
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080924-nokia-will-bring-bling-and-finger-friendliness-to-maemo-5.html
>
> == Matthew
A few other reasons are that Moblin v2 is more than MID (small handhelds) for
which Hildon was designed. It doesn't make as much sense to use Hildon in
other segments like Netbook or in-car entertainment systems. We also found
porting to Hildon an inconvenience without a high reward. Resdesigning the
application to be finger-friendly for MIDs is important but making changes to
accommodate Hildon didn't improve usability. Lastly, we felt that Hildon was
not the best long-term direction.
Bob
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