Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2013-05-05 , 22:04
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Originally Posted by Estel View Post
MartinK, thanks for your incredible work, and congratulations on reaching another platform It's nice to see such wonderful program becoming more widespread, I'm sure, that after becoming fully functional, it just kicks out any Android's "navigational tool" in terms of functionality.
Thanks !

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Now, out of curiosity - after - at some point in future - bringing full functionality to QML version, are you going to keep working on GTK version, syncing features, etc? It's not a secret, that there are many fans of GTK edition, that doesn't feel QML to be such fancy (not to mention having both GTK and QT bits loaded in memory is a huge bit of resource waste).

/Estel
I don't have any definitive plans for this but the truth is, that GTK doesn't seem to be doing any inroads to mobile platforms recently and lately everything is Qt.

But due to all the features it has, the GTK GUI is still the main GUI for now and also the main desktop GUI, due to Qt Components missing from most distribution repositories. BTW, a dedicated desktop-like modRana GUI would be nice but I don't see having time for making it any time soon.

Also, I'll be generally improving the core modRana data models, which are shared by both GUIs, so the GTK GUI should also indirectly benefit from QML improvements. So we will see how it goes, at least I want it to remain fully functional and I'll fix any future breakage in the GTK GUI.

Also, I'll welcome any sensible patches for the GTK GUI (and of course for the QML one and generally for any part of modRana)! So if someone wants to improve the GTK GUI while I'm mid-term working mainly on the QML one, now is you chance !

BTW, modRana source code is on Github, so sending a merge request is very easy - just ask Wikiwide or ZogG how easy it is.
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Last edited by MartinK; 2013-05-05 at 22:23.
 

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