[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

[From: Nicolas Roard]

On 1/5/06, Aaron Levinson <alevinsn at aracnet.com> wrote:
> It's important to note that even if you solve the problem of getting the
> icon to display in the task bar, a bigger problem exists when an attempt
> is made to run the software on the device itself.  Since it isn't a GTK
> application, there will be no support for GTK input methods.
> Effectively, this means that users won't be able to input anything into
> the application besides mouse strokes and clicks.  If the application is
> entirely mouse-driven, that might be okay, but in addition, it won't be a
> maemo application, and there will be other issues besides the lack of
> input methods.

Er... what are exactly the other issues ?.. isn't it running linux +
x11 after all ?
Apart from the input methods that obviously won't work, possibly some other
integration problem with matchbox (like this icon thing), and obviously anything
dependant to the hardware or memory/cpu hungry.. Things /should/ work, no ?
What am I missing ?

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Nicolas Roard
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