Bid for contract to port Gtk+ well to MeeGo
Many of you may recall the funds Nokia pledged to help bring Hildon/Gtk+ support to MeeGo (as it's, officially, a Qt-only platform) to provide some level of backwards-compatibility for Maemo applications and give Maemo developers a familiar API to work with. It looks like movement is finally being made on putting those funds to good use, as the GNOME Foundation has just announced contract bidding for the project: The GNOME Foundation is looking for developers to enhance the developer experience of using GTK+ to port and create applications on MeeGo Handset devices. Knowledge of the MeeGo Handset development process, and GTK+ internals will be required to carry out the work. The tasks to be achieved are: Ensure that GTK+ applications display as expected on the MeeGo Handset platform, including checking that fixes to the compositor are made if necessary; Add to upstream GTK+ helper functionality to create stand-alone GTK+ applications to run on MeeGo; Merge Hildon widgets functionality into GTK+ upstream, where it makes sense to do so. Interested developers should get in touch with the GNOME Foundation.