----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert William Hutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've bought a Neo Freerunner and debug board - all looks pretty good so >> far. This is my first real use of Linux and I'm beginning to feel like >> I'm throwing myself off the deep end a bit, but I'm a self-taught > > Congrats on making it this far. Believe me when I say that as a > programmer you might find it difficult to go back to whatever non-unixy > OS you used to use. It's addictive. ;)
Thanks, it must be pretty addictive as I was up until gone 3am messing around with the thing! I was a bit late to work this morning ;) > >> What really interested me about this project however was the possibility >> that I might be able to get into the user interface development a bit. I >> have a few ideas for a mobile GUI that I'd like to put into practice. So > > I think you should probably get started with "themes". In the various > windowing toolkits that are in use there are themes that control how > widgets are drawn and such. For example, the GTK theme files are here: > > /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc > > See this ML post: > > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025711.html > > There should be similar mechanisms for theming the other toolkits, such > as qtopia somewhere as well. Thanks for this.. I'm finding it a bit difficult to get to the right information at the moment, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. > So, that allows you to control the appearance of the existing widgets > and such. Next you'll need to actually start changing the code of the > apps that actually draw the widgets. You'll need to download the > development environment and start looking at the code. Which is beyond > my abilities right now, but there is a bit of info floating around on > the ML and in the wiki about getting this all set up. > > HTH! :) > > Cheers, > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community