Nice post at wxBlog about Hildonizing wxGTK. Obviously, apps won’t be as small as using GTK natively, but it should make some ports more likely.
Since XML Copy Editor, the open-source XML editor I am fanatic about, is built with wxWidgets, this might be a way to bring that fabulous app to the Nokia Internet Tablet.
I don’t want to make the N8×0 my primary device, but being able to edit when I need to without lugging around the laptop is one of the NIT’s selling points.
I’ll post more about this as events develop with wxGTK.
Added later —
Andrea Grandi has some follow-up at Maemo Geek. He writes: “The result? I think that a screenshoot is better than thousand words :)”
Photo from Karoliina Salminen’s blog of the Hildon UI running on a laptop computer at way beyond 800×480. This is just a teaser of what is coming from Lucas Rocha, she notes.
Hm-m. This means future generations of internet tablets can be freed from the hardware specifics of the Nokia 770. (I changed “internet tablets” to lower-case, because I got to thinking how a UMPC might be dual-bootable, plus there’s that H9 UMPC we heard about earlier in the week.) Nokia could release a next-gen tablet with such a different spec sheet that the 770’s end-of-life could be extended as as the low-end, lowest-cost (and more restricted) model.
I wonder too if this doesn’t lead to overlapping and smaller-than-full-size windows in Hildon too, an in-no-way-beloved limitation of the current UI.
OK, Lucas — let’s see more!
– Roger Sperberg
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Added later: A post from Lucas gives more details and another photo, specifying the resolution as 1024×768.
When I was looking at Joe as a text editor, I saw all the keyboard shortcuts use the <ctrl> key. Hey, there’s no <ctrl> key on my Nokia 770’s virtual keyboard!
So I wondered if there is any way to effect changes to the virtual keyboard because there are many missing keys — not just the <ctrl> key but also the <alt> key and the function keys (I’ve been wanting to try F11 with Opera on certain pages).
More than that, since the keyboard is virtual, I was wondering if it is possible to customize it at all.
For instance, I use the hyphen a lot more than I do the exclamation mark and would gladly exchange their relative positions. And where is the em dash?
I’ve got to believe this is something that should be available in a configuration file.
A post from “max_power” points out that GtkPerf has a Hildonized version that runs in Maemo.
The GtkPerf site says:
GtkPerf is an application designed to test GTK+ performance. The point is to create common testing platform to run predefined GTK+ widgets (opening comboboxes, toggling buttons, scrolling text yms.) and this way define the speed of device/platform.
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