To port and adapt ETK (an application toolkit) to the N810 device
I am the main developer of ETK, a toolkit (such as GTK or QT) based on the EFL [1] (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, which were initially create for the window-manager e17) and I'd like a Nokia N810 to port ETK to this device.
ETK already proposes all the widgets necessary to build simple interfaces (buttons, sliders, spinners, scrollbars...) as well as more complex widgets such as trees, iconboxes and multiline textblocks...
Etk is also highly themable thanks to the Edje library which allows to separate entirely the theme from the application's behaviour code.
This toolkit is already used by several Linux/FreeBSD applications such as:
- exhibit: an image viewer [2]
- emphasis: a MPD client [3]
- entropy: a file manager
I have already been collaborating with folks from INdT [4] (Instituto Nokia De Tecnologia) in order to help them to port successfully ETK to Nokia N800, but I'd like to have my own device in order to run my own tests for optimization-purpose and in order to be able to create widgets adapted to this kind of devices.
It would also be a lot easier for me to continue collaborating with INdT if I had my own Nokia N810.
I really think ETK could be a great toolkit for such devices: it is fast, lightweight, highly themable and has a good and intuitive API (inspired from the GTK's API). It could be used efficiently to build a coherent set of applications for the Nokia devices.
ETK's code can be found on the Enlightenment project's cvs, in the directory e17/libs/etk [5]
[1] http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/libs&l=en
[2] Screenshot of Exhibit using the Detour theme: http://mtreny.free.fr/exhibit_detour.png
[3] Screenshot of Emphasis and Etk test-apps: http://mtreny.free.fr/detour_desktop.png
[4] http://www.indt.org/
[5] http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=download/cvs&l=en