You might want to look at Mamona, which is an attempt to independently build an entirely open source flash image for the Nokia devices. Otherwise, you might also look into OpenEmbedded. Ryan sandeepsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you all for the quick reply and the valuable info. I think GTkFB > does not provide all the functionalties required for my project, so I > am planning to go with X. Could anyone tell me approximate size of > Maemo/GTK/X11 package for an ARM board ? Is there any howto document > available for porting X11/GTK/hildon/maemo which lists packages and > the version dependencies ? > > Warm Regards, > Sandeep > > Quoting Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen@xxxxxxxxx>: > > >> Hi, >> >> ext Dave Neary wrote: >> >>> Matt Emson wrote: >>> >>>> Sandeep, my understanding is that Maemo sits on top of a framework called >>>> "Hildon" that is based on GTK+, but not necessarily the same thing >>>> entirely. >>>> Others will be more precise, but YMMV greatly as to how easily it >>>> is to implement. >>>> >>> Hildon sits on top of GTK+, and uses/augments it. I suppose it's >>> possible that Hildon contains some X11 specific code (I really have no >>> idea), but if it uses only GTK+ and glib calls, then it should work on >>> that whatever the back-end is. In GTK+, there are a few different >>> elements - the widgets themselves don't have any X11 drawing code, and >>> draw using GDK, the GTK Drawing Kit (actually GIMP Drawing Kit >>> historically) - GDK is where different back-end code gets added, such as >>> gdk-x11, gdk-win32, gdk-directfb and gdk-quartz. >>> >>> My understanding is that GTKFB is just GTK+ using the directfb back-end >>> of GDK - but I don't actually know of anyone using it in a device at >>> this time. Best advice is try it & see. >>> >> And not having X11 there means that: >> - window manager/management >> - input method >> - clipboard >> don't work. > -- Ryan Pavlik www.cleardefinition.com #282 + (442) - [X] A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
