[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] maemo = gtk?

[From: Ed Okerson]

> On 2/2/06, gunawan <gunawan at get-intouch.com> wrote:
>> I just want to ask, why must we use GTK under maemo programming??
>
> It's not a _must_ in principle, and there's lots of "pure" X programs
> ported to the platform. However, the main UI is implemented with Gtk+
> and also the input method so in order to integrate well (easily), the
> programs need to be written with Gtk+.
>
>> Isn't there another??
>
> Using pretty much anything would be possible, it's just a Linux after
> all. The amount of memory and the amount of re-implementation required
> to have a non-Gtk+ UI effectively restrict the possibilities. Loading
> another set of UI libraries into the limited memory available would
> have rather ill effects on the performance of the system.

There are options out there that don't use that much memory, for example
have a look at GraphApp:

http://enchantia.com/software/graphapp/

Very small and flexable, of course there is still the problem of getting
keyboard input.  Apps written with this will run on the 770, the only
thing I haven't gotten working is text input.  All the other buttons,
scrollbars, listboxes, etc work just fine.

Ed