Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-29 Thread Holger Freyther
On Friday 27 June 2008 20:14:26 Lorn Potter wrote:
 QWebKit

QtWebKit

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RE: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-29 Thread steve
Yes, with FSO we move to a UI toolkit agnostic standpoint. Where Guiologists
are free.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework



 

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-[ Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:27:52PM +0200, Francesco Cat ]
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain 
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be 
 present any more?

IIRC GTK is still present and always will be. But there are no more plans to
varous a complete software set based on it. Apparently, this is more or less
considered a feature from the OM team that no GUI is prefered over the
other.

Which is why I wondered what happended to the previous plans to provide a
complete mobility software set. But perhaps the aim of OpenMoko has always
been to release a phone, and that I daydreamed the software stack?
:-/



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RE: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-29 Thread steve
Thanks Roh,

  That would make a great first project for the folks who like GTK.

Steve
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Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software 
 stack?

would be nice.

e.g. take the last gtk-based ui apps, rip out all libgsmd and neod
dependencies and start communicating with the new middleware from FSO.

this would basically solve all 'call stability' problems from gsmd times and
give you the same, maintained middleware which in the future hopefully all
openmoko devices will use.

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack?

First of all, I'd be interrested in getting things to build on an iMac
G5. After that, we'll see where it goes. I'm not against tha idea,
although I'd have to learn to program TK (but learning a new plaform
seems to be my forte lately...)

If all else fails, I'll get an older PC off of eBay (or Marktplaats
for the dutch). A Linux capable 700MHz (ish) PC with a 16G harddrive
should suffice to install Ubuntu ad software stack, but getting it on
my hom Mac would be better.

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread cedric cellier

Im not sure I understand anything about OpenMoko software plans.
So I will reply your question with another, probably dumb one :
Is anyone planning to try maemo on the freerunner ?


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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread jluis

 Hello,

 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack?

...
 Thus are there developers/companies on the list interested in
 maintaining GTK on the openmoko phones and starting a community
 initiative? Pretty much 90% is already there!

I will try to be there but I fell sort of resources and skills

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread arne anka
 Is anyone planning to try maemo on the freerunner ?

my question, too.
and what about ubuntu mobile? does anybody know whether the plan to test  
it on om? at least it's the first open phone in the wild -- should be a  
given development platform for them ...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Francesco Cat
I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
present any more?

2008/6/27 Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I for one definitely prefer GTK:  as a toolkit I know and like it (in
 fairness I haven't developed for qt -- I have GTK and especially
 GTKmm), but in general I find I prefer the look of GTK-based apps
 better).

 I also felt the direction the phone was moving up until the ASU was
 looking very good and promising to me.  It was much more along the
 lines of a handheld computer with phone featuers, which is what I
 want (the automatic sync with evolution was also very nice).

 I just noticed the other day that the scaredycat images are still
 based on the GTK stack -- I hope to be trying that out in the next
 couple of days.

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread arne anka
 although I'd have to learn to program TK (but learning a new plaform
 seems to be my forte lately...)

not sure, if you confuse something:
gtk!=tk
gtk is a c based toolkit used by gnome and gimp, tk ist a gui toolkit on  
top of tcl.


 If all else fails, I'll get an older PC off of eBay (or Marktplaats
 for the dutch). A Linux capable 700MHz (ish) PC with a 16G harddrive

i think you are far better of with a pc with about 1.5 ghz and a bigger  
harddisk.
developing requires a lot of additional packages which take up a lot of  
space -- and a fast cpu is a real blessing when compiling often. besides,  
i don't think the price will differ much ...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread jluis
hello crist,

 First of all, I'd be interrested in getting things to build on an iMac
 G5. After that, we'll see where it goes. I'm not against tha idea,
 although I'd have to learn to program TK (but learning a new plaform
 seems to be my forte lately...)

I have my Santa Rosa iMac building package  images over an usb storage
using ubuntu  mokomakefile; You don't have any need to invest in other
hardware

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread cedric cellier
-[ Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:27:52PM +0200, Francesco Cat ]
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?

IIRC GTK is still present and always will be. But there are no more
plans to varous a complete software set based on it. Apparently, this
is more or less considered a feature from the OM team that no GUI is
prefered over the other.

Which is why I wondered what happended to the previous plans to provide
a complete mobility software set. But perhaps the aim of OpenMoko has
always been to release a phone, and that I daydreamed the software stack?
:-/



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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote:
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?

Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in order
to start a new stack called ASU. There are some 10.000 developers for
GTK who can start any time making software for the Neo while there are
very few developers for ASU, maybe 50. ASU is only used on the Neo
whereas your GTK apps will run on the desktop or on the new MID devices
like the ASUS eeePC right out of the box. Naturally for an open source
developer it is a difference if the software will run on some hundred
Neos or on some million PCs and MIDs.

The GTK stack simply needs maintainance and bugfixing to remain a
perfect platform for future developments.

A really nice thing about the current GTK stack is the abilily to work
in portrait and landscape mode just the same. It is just a lot of fun to
automatically turn your screen while turning the phone in your hands.


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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have my Santa Rosa iMac building package  images over an usb storage
 using ubuntu  mokomakefile; You don't have any need to invest in other
 hardware

That's an Intel Mac, not a G5 one...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:30 PM, arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Christ wrote:
 although I'd have to learn to program TK (but learning a new plaform
 seems to be my forte lately...)

 not sure, if you confuse something:
 gtk!=tk
 gtk is a c based toolkit used by gnome and gimp, tk ist a gui toolkit on
 top of tcl.
That was a typoe for GTK...

and that was a typo for typo :-)

 If all else fails, I'll get an older PC off of eBay (or Marktplaats
 for the dutch). A Linux capable 700MHz (ish) PC with a 16G harddrive

 i think you are far better of with a pc with about 1.5 ghz and a bigger
 harddisk.
 developing requires a lot of additional packages which take up a lot of
 space -- and a fast cpu is a real blessing when compiling often. besides,
 i don't think the price will differ much ...

You have a point there, but having built all the packages, the Moko
files will probably only be a couple of thousands of lines...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Joseph Reeves
 Which is why I wondered what happended to the previous plans to provide
 a complete mobility software set. But perhaps the aim of OpenMoko has
 always been to release a phone, and that I daydreamed the software stack?
 :-/

I wondered the exact same thing. From the front page of the wiki:

Openmoko™ born as an Open Source project under  GPL and LGPL license
and dedicated to delivering an open software stack on mobile
platforms, shipped its first product, the Neo 1973, on July 9 2007;
and then, turned the project into a start-up company with one aim:
create great mobile products using the Openmoko stack: Open. Mobile.
Free.

So the plan from the early days was to release an Open Source software
stack, but this stack had to be radically altered at the 11th hour to
get the hardware out of the door? Erm...



2008/6/27 cedric cellier [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 -[ Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:27:52PM +0200, Francesco Cat ]
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?

 IIRC GTK is still present and always will be. But there are no more
 plans to varous a complete software set based on it. Apparently, this
 is more or less considered a feature from the OM team that no GUI is
 prefered over the other.

 Which is why I wondered what happended to the previous plans to provide
 a complete mobility software set. But perhaps the aim of OpenMoko has
 always been to release a phone, and that I daydreamed the software stack?
 :-/



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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Joachim Steiger
Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack? 

would be nice.

e.g. take the last gtk-based ui apps, rip out all libgsmd and neod
dependencies and start communicating with the new middleware from FSO.

this would basically solve all 'call stability' problems from gsmd times
and give you the same, maintained middleware which in the future
hopefully all openmoko devices will use.

kind regards

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Re: Community Initiative GTK. X11 on ASU?

2008-06-27 Thread Stroller

On 27 Jun 2008, at 16:56, Marcus Bauer wrote:

 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote:
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?

 Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in  
 order
 to start a new stack called ASU. There are some 10.000 developers for
 GTK who can start any time making software for the Neo while there are
 very few developers for ASU, maybe 50. ASU is only used on the Neo ...

Am I right in understanding that the earlier software stack wrote GTK  
to the framebuffer, whereas the ASU required the incorporation of an  
X11 server to the image?

Stroller.


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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Jisakiel
You forget the biggest: Nokia (sells as many phones a day as iphones yet sold). 
Rest are just startups so far, or non-mobile-phone-related... And Nokia looks 
like interested in QTopia (as they bought Trolltech!) ;)

Firefox (xulrunner, as the GUI is not appropiate) can be replaced by khtml, or 
however it is called now that it's part of qt 4.4. Openoffice in a phone does 
not currently makes sense (not adecuate gui, too heavyweight). 

Therefore I'm not really so sure whether to bet on GTK or on QT... 

--- El vie, 27/6/08, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
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Asunto: Community Initiative GTK
Para: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org
Fecha: viernes, 27 junio, 2008 4:49

Hello,

I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
stack? 

Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based
platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of
exotic software stack with a very small developer base.

Lots of hesitation comes from the switch to this new stack-mix as all
the big ones are going GTK:


* Limo (pretty much all big mobile companies plus Intel etc)
* Lips
* Firefox
* Openoffice
* Ubuntu
* Ubuntu mobile
* Garmin


IMHO it is very important for the future of Openmoko and open software
on mobile phones to grow an ecosystem that involves both, many companies
and many free software developers.

Thus are there developers/companies on the list interested in
maintaining GTK on the openmoko phones and starting a community
initiative? Pretty much 90% is already there!

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Jisakiel
IIRC ubuntu mobile was only x86 based, and addressed to bigger devices than a 
phone (such as the Mobile Internet Devices - closer to n810 or even to asus EEE 
than to a phone). 


What I'd really love is to see android software stack running on the moko. 
Still not possible as android is not open, but they were supposed to free the 
whole stack, which should make possible to run on the moko (the binaries are 
compiled right now to a different flavour of ARM, see 
http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973 ). 

It would be the definitive hw plataform on which to develop ;). 

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Asunto: Re: Community Initiative GTK
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Fecha: viernes, 27 junio, 2008 5:26

 Is anyone planning to try maemo on the freerunner ?

my question, too.
and what about ubuntu mobile? does anybody know whether the plan to test  
it on om? at least it's the first open phone in the wild -- should be a  
given development platform for them ...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Steven Le Roux
2008/6/27 Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


 Hello,

 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack?

 Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based
 platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of
 exotic software stack with a very small developer base.


 Marcus


You will still be able to develop what you want with GTK if you want... but
EFL are soo much beautiful ! (Hmm okay im an e17 user :) can one
feel it ? ;))

EFL are optimized libs slower hardware, more powerful than gtk, wich is just
a gui toolkit. EFL are so much more...



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Re: Community Initiative GTK. X11 on ASU?

2008-06-27 Thread Markus Schlichting
Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 19:02:04 schrieb Stroller:
 Am I right in understanding that the earlier software stack wrote GTK
 to the framebuffer, whereas the ASU required the incorporation of an
 X11 server to the image?

No, the Gtk based (focused?)  stack used X11 as well, using Kdrive as X-Server 
and matchbox as windows manager.

cheers
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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Mike Doody
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote:
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?

 Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in order
 to start a new stack called ASU. There are some 10.000 developers for
 GTK who can start any time making software for the Neo while there are
 very few developers for ASU, maybe 50. ASU is only used on the Neo
 whereas your GTK apps will run on the desktop or on the new MID devices
 like the ASUS eeePC right out of the box. Naturally for an open source
 developer it is a difference if the software will run on some hundred
 Neos or on some million PCs and MIDs.


I'm confused what this ASU stack is that you are talking about?  When
I look at the architecture picture on the framework page
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework I don't see ASU. I see
Gtk+ and Qtopia and Enlightenment  (and X11).

So this ASU stack is only used on the Neo and nowhere else? If ASU is
Qtopia or EFL, then I'm not so sure that's true...

Regards,
-mike

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Lorn Potter
Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack? 
 
 Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based
 platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of
 exotic software stack with a very small developer base.
 
 Lots of hesitation comes from the switch to this new stack-mix as all
 the big ones are going GTK:
 
 
 * Limo (pretty much all big mobile companies plus Intel etc)
 * Lips
 * Firefox
 * Openoffice
 * Ubuntu
 * Ubuntu mobile
 * Garmin

Garmin's nuvifone is based on Qtopia.




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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Lorn Potter
Jisakiel wrote:
 You forget the biggest: Nokia (sells as many phones a day as iphones yet 
 sold). 

14 Nokia phones are made each second.

  Rest are just startups so far, or non-mobile-phone-related... And
 Nokia looks like interested in QTopia (as they bought Trolltech!) ;)
 
 Firefox (xulrunner, as the GUI is not appropiate) can be replaced by 
 khtml, or however it is called now that it's part of qt 4.4.

QWebKit

 Openoffice 
 in a phone does not currently makes sense (not adecuate gui, too 
 heavyweight).
 
 Therefore I'm not really so sure whether to bet on GTK or on QT...

Qt will be a common API across all Nokia platforms.



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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Shawn Rutledge
So just to be clear, FSO stands for FreeSmartphone.Org?

And that stuff is working so well that it can replace gsmd and neod already?

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack?

 would be nice.

 e.g. take the last gtk-based ui apps, rip out all libgsmd and neod
 dependencies and start communicating with the new middleware from FSO.

 this would basically solve all 'call stability' problems from gsmd times
 and give you the same, maintained middleware which in the future
 hopefully all openmoko devices will use.

 kind regards

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Tilman Baumann
Mike Doody wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote:
 I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain
 what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be
 present any more?
 Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in order
 to start a new stack called ASU. There are some 10.000 developers for
 GTK who can start any time making software for the Neo while there are
 very few developers for ASU, maybe 50. ASU is only used on the Neo
 whereas your GTK apps will run on the desktop or on the new MID devices
 like the ASUS eeePC right out of the box. Naturally for an open source
 developer it is a difference if the software will run on some hundred
 Neos or on some million PCs and MIDs.

 
 I'm confused what this ASU stack is that you are talking about? 
A Qtpia build based on X11. (Qtopia is usually framebuffer)
Fancy enlightenment launcher and applications menu.
Qtopia base apps.
And some individual new apps only seen on this platform. i think based 
on enlightenment APIs.

 I see
 Gtk+ and Qtopia and Enlightenment  (and X11).

Which is what ASU is composed of. ;)

 So this ASU stack is only used on the Neo and nowhere else?

More or less the other way. It only works well on Freerunner.
 If ASU is
 Qtopia or EFL, then I'm not so sure that's true...
It's both.
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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Tilman Baumann
Joachim Steiger wrote:
 Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack? 
 
 would be nice.
 
 e.g. take the last gtk-based ui apps, rip out all libgsmd and neod
 dependencies and start communicating with the new middleware from FSO.

My idea too.
I would like to see this...


For what it is worth, the original GTK platform is nod dead. Attention 
just shifted away.
And stability is ok as far as i can tell.
Gsmd allegedly breaks standby. But works for me.

Will see. I find the look and the UI design in general really well choosen.
But it is not GTK what buys me. As long as GTK is there as a lib for 
compatibility. (which is AFAIK also the case with the other builds based 
on X11)
But i would not mind if the Toolkit of the future would be EFL.

What i like with the old Framework (GTK thingie) is that it is pretty 
much the same what other mobile communications systems use as a platform 
and riding on pretty well established tools used on everyday linux systems.
GTK, GConf, D-Bus, (embedded) Evolution, X11, Avahi and probably some 
more like some gnome stuff...

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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Arthur Britto
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:49 +0200, Marcus Bauer wrote:
 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack? 

Part of what you want need is distribution support.  You might find it
amusing to see how crazy fast GPE on Gentoo, a meta Linux distribution,
can be ported to a phone:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/embedded/55281
(Make sure to check out the pictures).

-Arthur



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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 04:13 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote:
 Marcus Bauer wrote:
  Hello,
  
  I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
  stack? 
  
  Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based
  platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of
  exotic software stack with a very small developer base.
  
  Lots of hesitation comes from the switch to this new stack-mix as all
  the big ones are going GTK:
  
  
  * Limo (pretty much all big mobile companies plus Intel etc)
  * Lips
  * Firefox
  * Openoffice
  * Ubuntu
  * Ubuntu mobile
  * Garmin
 
 Garmin's nuvifone is based on Qtopia.

Not the upcoming ones:
http://butterfeet.org/?p=57



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Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Lorn Potter
Marcus Bauer wrote:
 On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 04:13 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote:
 Marcus Bauer wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software
 stack? 

 Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based
 platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of
 exotic software stack with a very small developer base.

 Lots of hesitation comes from the switch to this new stack-mix as all
 the big ones are going GTK:


 * Limo (pretty much all big mobile companies plus Intel etc)
 * Lips
 * Firefox
 * Openoffice
 * Ubuntu
 * Ubuntu mobile
 * Garmin
 Garmin's nuvifone is based on Qtopia.
 
 Not the upcoming ones:
 http://butterfeet.org/?p=57

That seems to be a different line of devices (in car navigation), and 
does not have any gsm features.
http://www8.garmin.com/nuvifone/

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