[maemo-developers] Pymaemo GUI wrapper toolkit (v1)

[From: Simon Budig]

Daniel Amelang (daniel.amelang at gmail.com) wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Sean Luke <sean at cs.gmu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >        http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/toolkit/
> 
> Awesome! There's a lot of useful stuff here. The object persistence is
> really neat. Making gtk/hildon development easier is nice, too. A lot
> of what you have could (should?) be absorbed into hildon itself, but
> that's not my call, obviously. And someone would first need to turn
> what you have into patches that the hildon guys can process. Just wish
> I had the time...
> 
> Regarding all those bugs that you found (and reported!): how are those
> progressing? I saw you got bounced around a bit from the pymaemo
> tracker to maemo bugzilla, and sometimes referred to the gtk bugzilla.
> Quite a merry-go-round.

Quite some of his bugs are misunderstandings on how GTK+ works. For
example it is easily possible to combine image + text in a button,
simply by embedding a hbox into the button which itself contains image +
text.

Also the idea of replacing signals with methods to override is - uhm -
interesting. It basically limits the amount of callbacks from infinite
to one without giving real benefits.

I did not really invest a long time on that page though, since the way
it is phrased makes it a hard read for someone who is convinced that
GTK+ is one of the best toolkits available...

Bye,
       Simon

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