Hello! In last days I'm researching the Net to find out what would be the best platform to focus on for developing a 'lite' version of desktop app meant to be run on devices like Nokia N900 - I'm not sure if this device falls in the category of MID or smart-phones.
Since I plan to use Haskell with GTK+ bindings for desktop app, I'd like to stay with GTK+ libs and to minimise the effort of porting the app for MID/smart-phone. The N900 runs on Maemo-5 which uses Hildon framework, but it is already known that Harmattan will be based on Qt and the Hildon will be 'community-supported' as I'm told from the people working on Mer. It certainly means it will have some more life, but I'm curious what is the future of further development of Hildon (aka: GTK-based) framework? The natural alternative to Maemo/Hildon(Mer) is, of course, Moblin, but based on the info I've collected so far, it i questionable if Intel will be able to provide smart-phone based on Moorestown platform or we'll have to wait for its Medfield successor in order to have CPU with appropriate power-consumption required for MDI/smart-phones? Moblin Core doc* says: "Moblin Core is built on the GNOME Mobile platform...", and "Moblin Core will follow the GNOME Mobile 6 month release cycle (starting with 2.26 in 2009) staying in sync, retaining compatibility and contributing improvements back to the GNOME Mobile and Desktop platforms." so I wonder if one wants to develop with GTK+, does it mean that Moblin is better option providing, at least, the same support for both GTK & Qt which, I believe, is not the case with Nokia's Maemo? I'd be also very thankful if someone familiar with both Moblin & Maemo can share how those two platform compare (in general) in regard to the effort to port desktop app to the MDI/smart-phone companion? *(http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/moblin-core Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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