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moma
June 4th, 2009, 04:12 PM
Hello,

I've seen the Moblin based user interface... (http://moblin.org) that evidently uses the Clutter-library... (http://clutter-project.org/) to animate the GUI elements.

Moblin clutter demo 1... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGp6iBmCyM)
Moblin clutter demo 2... (http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro)

But what GUI-toolkit it (the Moblin) uses?
Does Clutter have its own GUI-toolkit (for buttons, scrollbars, edit fields, etc) or should we developers just sew GTK2 and Clutter together best we can?

I think Moblin still needs the Xorg/XCB stack.

unknownPoster
June 5th, 2009, 03:36 AM
It's just QT/GTK

Sometimes you need to dig a little to get your information...

http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/moblin-core

Attached is a "screenshot" of the moblin-core

moma
June 6th, 2009, 12:17 PM
Hello,

It's a pity that there is no common UI toolkit that integrates user interface components (like in GTK2) and Clutter together. All that seamlessly.

Anyway, I already compiled and ran this example application... (http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-sdk/create-new-application) on an ordinary Ubuntu 9.04, so at least the start was easy. They even provide a small project generator app (http://moblin.org/projects/linux-project-generator). To avoid errors, run "sudo ldconfig" before using it. It generated a project but compilation failed either because it didn't include libraries or it relied on a wrong lib version (libclutter-0.8 vs. libclutter-0.9).

Her is a list of all important docs... (http://lwn.net/Articles/336455/)

Thanks.

EDIT: Well, Tidy... (http://www.clutter-project.org/blog/?p=41)seems to be an experimental toolkit based on Clutter. Simple demo1... (http://folks.o-hand.com/ebassi/tidy-viewport.ogg), demo2... (http://folks.o-hand.com/ebassi/tidy-list-view.ogg)