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

[From: Aaron Levinson]

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?