[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.0 API changes, signals and properties (was: ANN: Eagle)

[From: Shawn Gordon]

I gotta say as a third party developer that the state of Maemo is 
rather frustrating, it seems like a far from done piece of work and a 
moving target.  I've seen a lot of complaints on industry reviews of 
the device as well to the stability and selection of software 
included on the device.  What's happening at Nokia to help with this 
and remove the perception that the device is a beta unit?

thanks,
shawn

At 08:52 AM 4/19/2006, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:51 -0300, ext Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Eagle (http://www.gustavobarbieri.com.br/eagle/) was ported to
> > Maemo/Hildon 
> (http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2006/04/eagle-in-maemo.html).
>
>In your blog you had mentioned this:
>
> > However I opted to not port every component, like HildonColorButton
> > or HildonNote because I think they're not well designed, they don't
> > even provide signal "changed", used by Eagle's DataWidget to persist
> > data automatically. As API will change in Maemo 2.0, I won't bother
> > with this until then.
>
>HildonColorButton and HildonNote APIs are not changing in any signifcant
>way, so don't let that stop you from including more widgets in the
>supported list.
>
>Hildon-related API changes are more or less limited to HildonApp and
>AppView and gtk_infoprint (and widgets no one was supposed to be using
>anyway)  See http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonWidgets for a bit more
>details.
>
>
>HildonColorButton doesn't need a specific "changed" signal, it is
>already provided, though it's called "notify::color" and the callback
>signature is slightly strange
>(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#GObject-notify)
>(The older version of generated API documentation misses some crucial
>bits like signals and properties, the new API has slightly better
>generated documentation in
>https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/doc/api/hildon-libs/HildonColorButton.html)
>
>It's a less known feature in GObjects that all properties have implicit
>"changed" signals associated with them. It has the benefit that you
>don't need multiple "foo-changed", "bar-changed", ... signals for
>complex objects.
>
>So the lack of "extra" signal is intentional and we plan to use the same
>design in new widgets as well, see HildonProgram for example.
>
>
>--
>Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>
>
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Shawn Gordon
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