[maemo-developers] Fremantle UI Portrait Mode

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 00:23 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> 
> > All in all I think that the Gtk-API should be used more, but that
> > the rendering on the screen should just different from the rendering
> > on the desktop.
> 
> We try to do that where possible. Sometimes it's just a matter of
> theming the widget correctly, but other times it requires significant
> changes to Gtk, and the maemo-Gtk maintainers try to keep it as close
> to upstream as possible, because maintaining a big fork is a hard
> task, but they can tell you better than me :)

It's easier now that GTK+ (and hildon) uses git. And the changes could
go upstream within a year, reducing the differences in your fork. This
happened for previous Maemo GTK+ additions:
http://live.gnome.org/Maemo/GtkContributions

(I know it's too late.)

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