On Friday, September 30, 2011, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
>
> On another topic, Ivan, did you look in to http://chameleonproject.org/? I
> remember it was discussed before here. Personally, I think it would be
> cooler to further develop gnustep-gui and integrate opal (and maybe write a
> core animation implementation) such that chameleon can run on GNUstep,
> rather than write another uikit implementation.
>

Chameleon is explicitly intended to bring UIKit apps to desktops, and as
such would be unsuitable for UIKit apps running in their native environment
- touch devices. That said, it's an awesome project, and actually getting
Chameleon to run with GNUstep would be awesome. I just don't think it's a
substitute for a full UIKit reimplementation.

I'm right now looking into starting to write a Core Animation
implementation. If I make any (and I mean any) progress, I'll keep the list
posted, and publish my work on BitBucket. What I implement will primarily be
targeted toward getting UIKit to work, and not adding CA to AppKit, since
I'm not familiar with AppKit sufficiently to implement this. I suspect that
for CA to work, another backend would have to be developed so that both
Cairo and GL can be used for painting. However, I'm not familiar enough with
the GNUstep's AppKit internals to comment on that.

I'll fire off an email to FSF, too, at the address Adam mentioned, so the
work can be eventually integrated.



-- 
Ivan Vučica - [email protected]
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