On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/5/23 Till Harbaum / Lists <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > being one of the people that have written gtk/hildon apps for > > maemo, i'd like to understand if there's a future for hildon > > in meego at all. There doesn't seem to be an official roadmap. > > Some intel guys claimed that Nokia wanted to drop support > > for gtk/hildon completely and that at least gtk is there on request > > by intel. But i don't fully understand the idea of having a gtk without > > hildon on these devices. If there's one thing learned from the fact > > that maemo also supports legacy gtk, then it's that these apps > > just look plain ugly and are basically unusable. > > > > So is there some plan to include hildon into meego? Is there > > any future for all those existing maemo hildon apps? > > Because it's cheap to talk and actual code is better... > > Based on Claudio's patches in > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4605 and old Fedora packaging, > I've made a rather ugly .spec file and some patches that seems to > build Hildon library against stock GTK. > > How it looks, if it works, I don't know, but it should be something > that people can start using to see what is possible regarding Hildon > on stock GTK+ and MeeGo. More like a proof of concept. Hildon version > is 2.2.19. > > Patches and .spec, and i586 rpms against MeeGo trunk on > http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/hildon-meego/ along with build log > http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/hildon-meego/rawlog > > A question for the Hildon crowd - are you willing to accept that > patches might have to be made to move Hildon apps to MeeGo? To fit > with stock GTK+ for instance. > > Best regards, > Carsten Munk > maemo.org distmaster > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > Thanks a lot for your effort Carsten! I'll certainly prefer to make some patches to my projects to make them work (to what extent? We'll see!) in MeeGo then rewrite them from scratch in Qt (sometimes doing that would not be possible / practical at all - let's think about porting of existing gtk apps). -- Luca Donaggio
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