Re: [PATCH] Remove clutter project templates

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

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