Monday, July 23, 2007

A long over-due update

So, long time since I have made an update to my blog, but lots have been going on. I finally moved officially to Brazil and am living in Recife for at least the next two years. So far I have been enjoying myself a lot :-)

As some of you know, I work for INdT (The Nokia Technology Institute) as part of the OpenBOSSA stream, ie. working mostly on open source software, which is quite cool. Currently I am working as part of the Canola team, mostly dealing with developing and testing our new graphical platform which consists of the Evas and Edje libraries (among others) from the Enlightenment project. So far, we are quite satisfied with the libraries, though Gustavo and Andrunko are submitting various patches upstream as we run into problems.



I implemented the old interface of Canola and it rocks! free scaling (fullscreen desktop Canola rocks!), great animations, running quickly on the N800 (due to Gustavo's 16bit backend)! I am now working on the future interface and I can tell you all, that you have a lot to look forward to :) Now let's not say more.

If you are interested in hearing more about the new graphical platform (the EFL - Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) and our experience with developing graphical intensive applications for the N800, I have submitted a talk proposal for the linux.conf.au conference, so let's hope for the best. If it gets accepted, I will go there and do a tutorial together with Gustavo. :-)



As a side node, Gustavo spent one week to implement the iPhone keyboard using EFL, and you will be amazed how well this works on the N800. I'm sure he will blog about this soonish!

5 comments:

Arthur Nunn said...

Good luck with your move, I hope it all works out for you! :)

As for Canola and the new graphics platform, you talk a lot about the N800 but is it possible to say whether the new software will work on the 770 when using OS 2007HE (or even OS 2006)? It may be too early to say as OS 2007HE is not yet finished, but are there any technical reasons which prevent the software working on the 770 now or in the future?

Unknown said...

Hi

Is there any plan on releasing canola souce code?

thanks

Kenneth Rohde Christiansen said...

@arthur: Thanks! Though I haven't tested it, I'm pretty sure everything should run on the N770, though it will probably run slower which means that we might have to replace the theme with a less animation-dependent one. This is very doable as most of the interface (transitions, animations, layout) is described in a language (Edje) similar to CSS.

@mon: All the developers are pushing for this, so if we are lucky the next version will be released with source code ;-)

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