Does that means self hosted will be killed as well, or it will have to be done 100% in text mode. 

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From: Grant Courville [community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:18 PM
To: photon-graphics
Subject: Re: Photon deprecation?

We included this deprecation notice so as to provide significant lead time for our customers to allow them to plan their
 current and future product roadmaps. We continue to offer support to Photon today through our technical support 
channels but we want to ensure that for any new designs, that other GUI tehcnologies be considered and deployed.

The 2 most popular UI technologies available for QNX today are Storyboard from Crank Software (www.cranksoftware.com) 
and Qt (community and commercial licensing from Digia). OpenGL ES is also available and in 2013, you will also see HTML5
 as a UI become an option as well as of now, access to this is restricted.

We investigated in great detail the ability to port Photon applications to other Ui environments and sought out 3rd 
party companies to investigate various options. In teh end, we found that a porting library and/or photon encapsulation 
would not be a viable option from a technical, commercial or roadmap perspective.

If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Storyboard, you will find that Crank Software has a 
great deal of experience in Photon and of course their own products and could help from a services perspective.

If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Qt, you will find that KDAB, Digia and ICS are Qt 
experts and of course have QNX experience.

For any new UI projects, Storyboard, Qt, OpenGL ES and later in 2013, HTML are you best options.

All of these UIs make use of our new composition manager framework and we plan to start posting experimental versions of
 the composition manager and related technologies in September / October.

I hope this clarifies things a bit more and if you have any further questions, feel free to contact me anytime.

Grant Courville
grant at qnx dot com




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Hello Grant,

is the composition manager 100% conformant with the OpenKODE standard ?

The OpenKODE standard mentions:

"OpenKODE brings together:
• Khronos media APIs (OpenGL ES and OpenVG, with OpenSL ES and OpenMAX 
AL to be added soon);
• EGL, which acts as a “hub” for the media APIs;
• OpenKODE Core, an API providing an abstraction of operating system 
functions and libraries such as the event
system, file access and memory allocation. OpenKODE Core is part of this 
specification."

Are there any plans to support Qt and HTML5 by the proprietary 
composition manager of QSS ?
Will QSS build an additional abstraction layer over the "abstraction of 
operating system functions and libraries" of OpenKODE?
Or is the compostion manager just a native implementation of OpenKODE?

BR

--Armin

PS: the best base for UI projects are operation system independent GUI 
standards.


Grant Courville wrote:
> We included this deprecation notice so as to provide significant lead time for our customers to allow them to plan 
their current and future product roadmaps. We continue to offer support to Photon today through our technical support 
channels but we want to ensure that for any new designs, that other GUI tehcnologies be considered and deployed.
>
> The 2 most popular UI technologies available for QNX today are Storyboard from Crank Software (www.cranksoftware.com) 
and Qt (community and commercial licensing from Digia). OpenGL ES is also available and in 2013, you will also see HTML5
 as a UI become an option as well as of now, access to this is restricted.
>   
> We investigated in great detail the ability to port Photon applications to other Ui environments and sought out 3rd 
party companies to investigate various options. In teh end, we found that a porting library and/or photon encapsulation 
would not be a viable option from a technical, commercial or roadmap perspective.
>
> If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Storyboard, you will find that Crank Software has a 
great deal of experience in Photon and of course their own products and could help from a services perspective.
>
> If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Qt, you will find that KDAB, Digia and ICS are Qt 
experts and of course have QNX experience.
>
> For any new UI projects, Storyboard, Qt, OpenGL ES and later in 2013, HTML are you best options.
>
> All of these UIs make use of our new composition manager framework and we plan to start posting experimental versions 
of the composition manager and related technologies in September / October.
>
> I hope this clarifies things a bit more and if you have any further questions, feel free to contact me anytime.
>
> Grant Courville
> grant at qnx dot com
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Photon microGUI
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> To cancel your subscription to this discussion, please e-mail photon-graphics-unsubscribe@community.qnx.com
>

What is proposed for phindows like functionnality.

> 
> We included this deprecation notice so as to provide significant lead time for
>  our customers to allow them to plan their current and future product roadmaps
> .

How can we plan since we don't know how much lead time we have....

> We continue to offer support to Photon today through our technical support 
> channels but we want to ensure that for any new designs, that other GUI 
> tehcnologies be considered and deployed. 
> 
> The 2 most popular UI technologies available for QNX today are Storyboard from
>  Crank Software (www.cranksoftware.com) and Qt (community and commercial 
> licensing from Digia). OpenGL ES is also available and in 2013, you will also 
> see HTML5 as a UI become an option as well as of now, access to this is 
> restricted.
>  
> We investigated in great detail the ability to port Photon applications to 
> other Ui environments and sought out 3rd party companies to investigate 
> various options. In teh end, we found that a porting library and/or photon 
> encapsulation would not be a viable option from a technical, commercial or 
> roadmap perspective.
> 
> If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Storyboard, 
> you will find that Crank Software has a great deal of experience in Photon and
>  of course their own products and could help from a services perspective.
> 
> If you are looking to move your existing Photon applications to Qt, you will 
> find that KDAB, Digia and ICS are Qt experts and of course have QNX experience
> .
> 
> For any new UI projects, Storyboard, Qt, OpenGL ES and later in 2013, HTML are
>  you best options. 
> 
> All of these UIs make use of our new composition manager framework and we plan
>  to start posting experimental versions of the composition manager and related
>  technologies in September / October.
> 
> I hope this clarifies things a bit more and if you have any further questions,
>  feel free to contact me anytime. 
> 
> Grant Courville
> grant at qnx dot com