>

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> I would like to know if the original GTK-based libraries and apps have

> been left in a decent (useable) state, and if it will be possible to

> switch to them in a direct and clean way.

OF COURSE THEY ARE!!!! :-) Carsten has made it very clear on this same

list within the last few days that all the major libraries - GTK+2,

QT, efl, - are and will be available.
> Thanks for letting us know. This makes the phone much less hackable

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> for me (c++-based) and thus, if this decision is not reverted, I will

> most probably not buy the phone, at least for now.

All the libraries are there. All toolkits. All languages(*). It is

just as hackable as it was. 
"Make of it what you will shall be the whole of thy law".
Ian Darwin
* C and C++ and sh ship; many others available but you may have to "opkg install" them.

For Java(tm) install Jalimo. Other languages available. Your language may vary.
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