Hello. On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:44, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > I see one main problem with openmoko on this devbices. It is designed > > for phone handling not media player handling. > > We should be able to use the base system, but would need a complete > > new gui and framework design. > > In long term I would really prefer to have _one_ device for phone > > calls, contacts, dates, mp3 and perhaps small videos, navigation, etc. > > Entirely correct. We are at a stage in time where we recognize that we > (application developers) have to solve an important problem to make > usability scale between different devices requiring different UI > paradigms motivated by physical differences.
Yeah. That is still a hard task. Moving to dbus and hal is on of the right steps here. As you wrote a abstraction from the toolkit layer could be another. Keep in mind that absrtaction are not cheap. > What we are doing right now is adding more and more #ifdef clauses to > applications or making every application a plugin-host for a variety > of frontend (UI) plugins, but I don't think this will be the way to go > in the future. Ugly and hard to maintain for >3 different UIs. Of course you know the pain. :) regards Stefan Schmidt
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