[FOSS-GPS] foxtrotGPS for Ubuntu smartphone

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, March 31, 2015 a las 10:33:11PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen escribió:

> I'm happy to hear you enjoy FoxtrotGPS, but hearing that it doesn't
> `just work' on the Ubuntu phone makes my heart sink a little;
> I thought that they had some sort of X11/Mir adapter for `legacy'
> applications--don't they?
> 
> Though, it looks like the latest release of the graphics toolkit that we use,
> GTK+, apparently has support for Mir in the latest release:
> 
> 	http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTK-3.16-Toolkit-Released
> 
> We presumably just need to migrate FoxtrotGPS from Gtk+ 2 to GTK+ 3
> (I'm guessing--I don't know if there's actually something else required
>  to make something run on Ubuntu phones).
> 
> It's probably a substantial undertaking to port to the new GTK+ API, and
> nobody's started yet, but I'm guessing it's something we'll need to do at
> some point (how long is GTK+ 2.x going to survive?).
> 
> Help would be quite welcome.
> 
> If I understand correctly, the first task is probably to convert the UI
> from libglade to GTK+'s UiBuilder system.
> 
> Is this something that you could help with? :)

Hi Joshua && All,

While I do UNIX / FreeBSD for more than 20 years, I'm very new to the
Ubuntu phone. I owned this 4 days ago, because it's a phone running a
real UNIX (Ubuntu) and not this Android or iOs stuff.

I found that foxtrottGPS in the Ubuntu-phone aoo store is missing and
the other OSM apps are not doing what I want/need, or what I'm used to
use with foxtrotGPS.

I do not know anything about the new MIR display server and even less
about some X11/MIR interface libs.

I can only offer test efforts, when some port of foxtrotGPS to MIR is
coming up. More is outside my knowledge. Last time when I have build
some graphic stuff, it was with Xt and with OSF/Motif :-)

Thx

	matthias


-- 
Matthias Apitz, guru at unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211
"Wenn der Mensch von den Umständen gebildet wird, so muß man die Umstände menschlich bilden."
"Si el hombre es formado por las circunstancias entonces es necesario formar humanamente
las circunstancias", Karl Marx in Die heilige Familie / La sagrada familia (MEW 2, 138)