Hello,<br><br>most of the message apparently got lost, I hope the whole message gets to the list this time.<br><br>Regards,<br>Djuro Drljaca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Djuro Drljaca <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djurodrljaca@gmail.com">djurodrljaca@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">> I guess it is the Qt version of Marble. In that case you could start it<br>> with the --smallscreen parameter which will make it run like the N900<br>
> version. Possibly this won't be a too good choice, though: The behavior<br>
> of Qt on the N900 is quite different to Qt on other systems, so I'd<br>> expect some oddities.<br><br>The option "--smallscreen" does not exist.<br><br>The output I get from "marble -v" is:<br>
Qt: 4.7.0<br>KDE Development Platform: 4.5.4 (KDE 4.5.4)<br>Marble Desktop Globe: 0.10.3<br><br>From this I think it should be a "KDE version". Also there are other KDE applications and libraries available in the WeTab package repositories.<br>
<br>> The download of offline routing maps should work in either version. To<br>> have offline routing working, you also need the monav routing daemon<br>> (version 0.2 or 0.3) installed. This shouldn't be too hard if you can<br>
> compile it somehow. Maybe even one of the binary versions [1] works on<br>> the WeTab.<br><br>WeTab has an Intel Atom processor so it can probably run most x86 binaries, I haven't tried it yet and I also didn't research which system libraries it uses (this can be quite a mess in embedded Linux world).<br>
<br>> The N900 version of Marble works great on the N900, but it won't be easy<br>> to extend it to other devices in that way. Still we are much interested<br>> in doing that. Therefore we're currently trying to make it easier to<br>
> create Marble "applications" optimized for certain device form factors.<br>> <br>> Marble today looks like this:<br>> <br>> [Marble library]<br>> [Marble KDE application] || [Marble Qt application] || [Marble Qt application, smallscreen profile]<br>
> <br>> The vast majority of all code is part of the library, the applications<br>> are rather small. Nevertheless the QWidget based parts don't work too<br>> well on touchscreens and adjustments for different form factors could be<br>
> easier. Therefore I'd like future Marble versions to go into this direction:<br>> <br>> [Marble library] || [Marble QtDeclarative/Qt-Components/QML support]<br>> [Marble Desktop] || [Marble Maemo] || [Marble MeeGo] || [Marble Android*] || [Marble Active**] || [Marble Touch]] ...<br>
> <br>> Each of the applications should be a small .qml application that<br>> combines the common QML/QtDeclarative/Qt-Components into a user<br>> interface optimized for a certain device form factor (and/or use case(s)).<br>
> <br>> No doubt it will be much work to realize this, but fortunately we<br>> already made some progress: There are first QtDeclarative classes that<br>> export parts of Marble to QML, and sample .qml applications that show<br>
> this. I'll work more on that in the future, next thing will be routing<br>> support (such that routes can be configured from .qml applications).<br>> Daniel Marth is working on a Marble .qml application for MeeGo that will<br>
> make use of Qt-Components and the existing QML/QtDeclarative bindings.<br>> This is a GSOC project, so expect much progress here soon. Additionally<br>> Niko Sams has started working on an Android port.<br>> <br>
> Please join us if the above sounds interesting; there are many open<br>> things to work on. A good start might be to get one of the qml examples<br>> running on the WeTab. There's a short introduction to those examples in [2].<br>
<br>First I'll install the SDK for WeTab and do a few tests with QML (I haven't had the chance to work with it yet), then I'll play around with the QML examples that you mentioned.<br><br>I'll probably ask a few more questions when I get started :)<br>
<br>Could you send me some links for my first steps with Marble?<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">Djuro Drljaca<br>
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