Hi, ext Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 02:34:43PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>> So is there some plan to include hildon into meego? >> there is no plan for this at this time. >> >> I would have said "something great for the cummunity repo" if it >> wasn't for hildon patching core GTK in an incompatible way ;-( > > Can you elaborate a bit more on this? > > Hildon is a library different from GTK. > > If you're talking about the Maemo branch of GTK: yes, it contains > changes for features that were necessary but unavailable in upstream > GTK. > > But the policy was not to touch GTK unless it was completely necessary > in order to keep it as close as possible to the upstream version > (something that btw received some criticism at the time). > > Porting those changes to the latest upstream version of GTK does > indeed require some effort, but I don't think there's anything > inherently incompatible, since that same task has already been done in > the past (e.g. for Maemo 5).
There are no plans to support Hildon officially in MeeGo, no matter what is the status of GTK+. This brings no changes compared to the Hildon status in Harmattan, announced as 'community supported' last year at the Desktop Summit. I also wonder what is the real status of this community support, and the willingness of the current Hildon and/or GTK+ maintainers and developers to bring Hildon and Hildon based applications to the MeeGo community repositories. There has been some discussion about this at GNOME's mobile-devel-list but honestly I had expected a more concrete or articulated answer by now. See the whole "What would you do to encourage application developers on GNOME Mobile?" discussion starting at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mobile-devel-list/2010-April/msg00003.html and even my own post back in February that got basically no traction from anybody involved in GTK+ development - http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mobile-devel-list/2010-February/msg00010.html Nokia gave a substantial fund to the GNOME Foundation with the main goal of promoting GTK+ based applications for Maemo 5 and also to help building a future path for them in future releases - now in practice MeeGo Handset UX releases. There is still not a concrete plan for that budget that I know, which is not, er, optimal considering how fast time passes both for Maemo 5 and MeeGo. Conclusion: if you think that we as Nokia still could to do something else to ease the transition of Hildon based applications to MeeGo please let me know. -- Quim Gil open source advocate MeeGo Devices @ Nokia _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
