I think some answers can be found in the Maemo Development Platform White Paper, available at http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/maemo_exec_whitepaper.html , and in the Hildon UI style guide, available at http://www.maemo.org/community/hildon_ui.html .
Aaron On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Mark Arrasmith wrote: > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:53, Aaron Levinson wrote: > > > As a general rule, building and running strictly X applications isn't > > going to cut it on the 770, and a true port of a GUI application to the > > maemo platform requires some programming, quite possibly extensive > > programming if the original application is only written using X. > > Just out of curiosity. Anyone know why this direction way chosen? > > It is easy enough to have an open system like the typical KDE, GNOME, XFCE, > FLTK or whatever toolbar and keyboards like keymacs. Where all the running > X11 apps show up and the software keyboard+HWR can write to them. I do this > all the time on a tablet PC with an FLTK based keyboard+HWR (keymacs). And I > can use KDE or gtk applications without any problem. > > Basically, why tie input so tightly to maemo? And on an X11 environment > where > you could run any application? _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
