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Chaos · 02-22-2006, 07:19 PM

One thing that annoys me (although the idea and implementation look good), is that they're going with GTK+, like both GPE and Maemo. GTK+ is a good choice in my mind, but there's a problem...

I'm willing to bet there will be subtle differences between all three of those that will make porting applications between the three of them a necessity, as opposed to being able to run the same code on all three. In fact, I'm almost certain that GPE applications have to be modified to run on Maemo, and vice-versa. Same with normal GTK+ applications - they need to be modified (rather heavily?) to run on either GPE or Maemo. And I bet PalmSource's ALP will be no different...

Of course it will still be much easier to port applications between these three and even desktop GTK+ than it would be to port, say, a GTK+ application to Palm OS 5 or WM5.

02-22-2006, 07:19 PM	#9
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	One thing that annoys me (although the idea and implementation look good), is that they're going with GTK+, like both GPE and Maemo. GTK+ is a good choice in my mind, but there's a problem... I'm willing to bet there will be subtle differences between all three of those that will make porting applications between the three of them a necessity, as opposed to being able to run the same code on all three. In fact, I'm almost certain that GPE applications have to be modified to run on Maemo, and vice-versa. Same with normal GTK+ applications - they need to be modified (rather heavily?) to run on either GPE or Maemo. And I bet PalmSource's ALP will be no different... Of course it will still be much easier to port applications between these three and even desktop GTK+ than it would be to port, say, a GTK+ application to Palm OS 5 or WM5.