LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it) [LWN.net]

LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 15:26 UTC (Wed) by kragil (guest, #34373)
Parent article: Nokia drops MeeGo phone before launch (Reuters)

http://www.wafaa.eu/entry/smeegol-nogo-meego-gogo-1-56.html

Although a few Intel employees still seems to work on GTK stuff and always say that GTK on Meego is not dead like I thought right after the Meego anouncement.

Dayum, I want a real Linux phone. Android and WebOS just don't cut it.

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LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 15:28 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link] (3 responses)

See http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/01/17/gtk-meego-ha... about GTK on Meego.

LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 16:27 UTC (Wed) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link] (1 responses)

MeeGo/Netbook actually never used GTK.
It uses MX, which is a whole separate toolkit that replaces GTK....

LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Posted Feb 10, 2011 9:57 UTC (Thu) by damien.lespiau (guest, #57228) [Link]

MeeGo/Netbook is mostly GTK. It is actually very close to any GNOME distribution. Sure the *shell* is mostly Mx (except the network panel, it's GTK) but a lot of GNOME (or GTK-based) apps are used in the image: gedit, evince, banshee, cheese, control-center, calculator, a couple of GNOME games, gnome-screensaver, several GNOME daemons (keyring, settings, ...)

The GNOME 3.0 shell (gnome-shell) is written using a friendly internal copy of Mx, would you say that GNOME 3.0 is not using GTK?

LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Posted Feb 9, 2011 17:53 UTC (Wed) by dneary (guest, #55185) [Link]

Note that the decision to fund this was made around April 2010, almost a year ago.

It took that long for the GNOME Foundation to figure out exactly what was on the table, then decide what to do with the money, then run the call for bids and select the successful candidate.

I was part of the process to begin with (which ended up as headless chicken discussions do - many people voiced slightly different opinions, and there was no-one to say "OK, having listened to you all, here's what we're going to do").

The offer was made in April, around the time of the Collaboration Summit. It was discussed on mobile-devel-list until June, the board had decided what to do with the money by GUADEC in July, the call for bids was opened in October, with no deadline specified, a deadline was set for mid November, the winning bid was chosen in mid December, but wasn't announced until January.

So that is completely unrelated to anything that's happened since April.

Cheers,
Dave.