On Monday 24 May 2010 11:43:25 [email protected] wrote:
> As general view, plain applications made with plain desktop UI toolkit will
> have very poor usability in mobile device. Usage paradigm with touchscreen
> and finger is so different than in desktop with mouse. 

Thanks, Kate.  Those are good points.  In the case of GPE the apps are already 
designed to be usable on a handheld, but with a stylus rather than fingers.

My assumption is that GTK apps will never be able to provide the same look and 
feel as the Qt-based handheld UX, that good finger friendly behaviour will be 
hard to achieve (whether by using Hildon or just implementing it in the app), 
but that stylus usage will probably be fairly straightforward.  Text input 
may be an issue -- it probably depends whether an on-screen keyboard is 
available which will act as a standard input method or whether it is bound up 
with Qt widgets.

Graham
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