Hi, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 22/02/10 19:27, Dave Neary wrote: >> Have we lost the mobile battle? It certainly appears that GTK+ has lost >> the mobile battle, > > I don't think that's so true. Just because Nokia decided to buy > Trolltech because it could be bought, doesn't mean the rest of the world > agrees.
Well, not just Maemo/Nokia. MeeGo, for example, uses Qt as the preferred toolkit, although GTK+ and Clutter will remain as supported platform components; moblin2's interface was primarily Clutter based, from what I can tell; OpenMoko moved away from GTK+ toward Qt & Enlightenment during their self-destruction; Android is not based on anything GTK+-like. GTK+ is hanging in there in the LiMo stack, though. Are there any in-production to-be-continued GTK+-based software platforms out there besides ALP and Samsung's LiMo phones? Dare I say that the developer engagement from both of those platforms has left something to be desired - and the "good citizens" of mobile GTK+ (Nokia & Intel) appear to be moving away from the toolkit as a core component of the platform. Objectively, the number of companies interested in GTK+ on mobile appears to be decreasing from the very promising situation we found ourselves in 5 to 6 years ago. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
