maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - HP keeping WebOS after all, making it open-source to the community

MartinK	2011-12-09 , 22:52
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Originally Posted by don_falcone

There's optware, where some (console) stuff is available. We speak in terms of about 10 packages, by the way. And: as there's no Gtk+ or Qt or EFL or whatever, nothing else is there. And nobody ported GUI-based stuff to Mojo or Enyo (their Javascript/XML based application framework).

Well thats quite unfortunate in case you want to modify and reuse already implemented GUI stuff. Well heck even when you just want to reuse you previous programming experience...

I don't mind everybody under the sun developing their own GUI framework but it should be possible to expect the availability of some of the most common GUI frameworks, even in the "there you have it, we don't guarantee anything" state.

There is just no hardware reason GTK, Qt or EFL couldn't run on the WebOS devices.

BTW, found something about Qt running on WebOS:
http://www.precentral.net/qt-app-pla...nning-palm-pre
http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2010/02/19/...-of-your-hand/
Unfortunately its rather old and I haven't found any recent developments during my brief search.

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