There is QT for android as another avenue for porting existing applications.
But if the goal is a full featured word processing application, I suspect there are other routes to the same goal in the Android world. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote: > The current collection of sugar apps use pyGtk for interfaces. In the > case of Write, this is a C++ library linked with Gtk-2 with the UI > written with pyGtk. > > It seems to me that the minimum requirement for this idea to have the > remotest chance of reusing all the work that has gone into sugar so > far is for Gtk to have android graphics backend. Gtk-3.0 can > apparently now draw to HTML 5. > > So maybe it it is possible to build such a thing for android? An > android backend to Gtk-3.0 would be extremely valuable to the Free > Software community. So much so that I wonder if there has been an > attempt to do this. > > Does any one know? > > Cheers > > Martin > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Stepping back for a moment, the key question is: how can we get Sugar > >> out of the window manager and network manager and activity update and > >> UI toolkit business, where it's just not keeping up (and wasting our > >> efforts), and concentrate on the stuff we're all really here for: > >> enabling kids to learn and explore and share? How much can we strip > >> away and still have Sugar? > > > > If you want to abstract away, get far away from the computer and the > > OS and target HTML5. You'll have some significant limitations, but > > that's the tradeoff. > > > > The thing is... if you want to be "closer to the metal", you're gonna > > grind against it; and IMHO the best path looks a lot like what we have > > in Fedora+Sugar. We pay a big price for it, but it takes us to the > > highlands in Peru and many deep deep jungles, without and XS and > > without internet. > > > > Forget about kids in those places ("they'll get broadband-quality > > internet... eventually") and yeah, we can do it all with JS and your > > favourite language on the server side. > > > > I look back at when OLPC started, and some things have changed in the > > world _we_ live in. But the kids we want to help with... their world > > hasn't changed much. They still haven't got internet for starters. > > Some things might be a tad closer -- lower costs per laptop, tablets > > are possible -- but connectivity isn't any easier or any cheaper. > > > > cheers, > > > > > > m > > -- > > [email protected] > > [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC > > - ask interesting questions > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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