Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 19th Apr 2007 18:43 UTC
The GNOME Foundation announced today the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE) today at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The initiative is aimed at bolstering GNOME usage as an embedded and mobile development platform. The initiative has been in development since last year, says GNOME Foundation board member Jeff Waugh. The platform will be distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). In the next 12 months the group plans to add a mobile email framework called Tinymail, the GeoClue geolocation service, Java Mobile & Embedded (Java ME), PulseAudio audio management, and the HAL hardware information system.
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2007-04-17
Is it a feasible idea? The GTK+ toolkit is pretty taxing on system resources, and I quote from the article:
Schlesinger says that there were some issues with adoption of current versions of the GTK+ toolkit due to performance problems with Cairo on machines without floating point processors, such as the ARM processor.
Although if they can overcome this, then it would be a really nice platform to see, especially if you could use it on the Linux-based Nokia phones.
Edited 2007-04-19 20:55