[yocto] [PATCH] Remove clutter project templates

[Zhang, Jessica]

Hi Paul,

We removed clutter project templates just because we found that the underline package support for it is no longer there(in core-image-sato) and assume that there's a reason for the change.  I'm in the same boat as you that by no means I'm an expert with clutter thus don't know how popular it's among developers. But base on my limited experiment with it when adding the template support in Eclipse, it seems a pretty neat framework for adding animation support, etc. and can be useful  for new application developers doing the work.

Thanks,
Jessica



-----Original Message-----
From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:58 AM
To: Grigoropol, IoanaX
Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] [PATCH] Remove clutter project templates

On Wednesday 03 April 2013 08:42:23 Grigoropol, IoanaX wrote:
> Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 March 2013 18:05:33 Ioana Grigoropol wrote:
> > > - support for clutter was removed from core-image-sato along with
> > > clutter-box2d and thus the project templates in Eclipse should not
> > > be supported anymore; gtk templates should be used instead
> >
> > The removal of clutter-box2d doesn't signal that clutter itself is
> > unsupported, so I think maybe we shouldn't be removing these
> > templates just yet.
>
> In my opinion, since clutter was only brought in core-image-sato and
> core-image-sato-sdk by clutter-box2d, and not independently, it means
> it was not really intended to support it.

Possibly; the other alternative is that nobody had really considered the question of whether or not it should be included. I'm unsure as to which is the case here.

> Do you think there should be support for clutter in the sdk images ?

I would say it depends on whether we believe it will be useful to new application developers, or we're just keeping it around for compatibility with existing applications. I can see it being useful but I'd probably like to hear from Jessica and others as well.

> Clutter + dependencies is not a small package and was only getting
> into images through testapps feature, and we could use gtk templates instead.

True, but Gtk+ and Clutter aren't quite the same thing. I'm not an expert on Clutter by any means but I believe it provides a much better framework for animations and non-traditional UIs than Gtk+ does.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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