New QT Target Proposal

[Thiago Macieira]

Aaron J. Seigo said:
> On Friday 01 June 2007, Benjamin Long wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ozRGmQPBs
>
> very cool =)
>
>> So, consider this a RFC. I'm looking for what you KDE devs think of the
>> idea. I'm also looking for help, since I'm not a very experienced
>> programmer. I'm planning on starting a project, and attempting to get
>> some
>> of my old acquaintances from the Opie project involved.
>
> i see no reason why we couldn't help host your project in kde's svn if
> that
> would be of use/help to you. i think it's directly appropriate and
> relevant
> to the project and would probably make it easier for others to find your
> work, use it and hack on it.
>
> how invasive are the patches needed to get it up and running on QtOpia?
> would
> it possible to manage it much as we are doing with win32 and macOS, with
> #ifdef's where needed but most of the code being shared outright? if so,
> then
> we could even merge your efforts into mainline svn when they are ready
> which
> should help make the process of tracking kde releases that much easier.

I told you this would be the response you'd get from this list: get an
account and start working. I see no reason why we can't help you and you
help us.

I have not looked at your patches, but I do hope they are not intrusive.
Whatever is QWS-specific (the fourth Qt platform, besides X11, MacOS X and
Windows) can probably be contained in platform-specific files, just like
we do with the other platforms. Fortunately, Qtopia is Linux, so the
changes should be hopefully restricted to the UI layer and above.

My N800 right now lies turned off most of the time. I must turn it on once
a month at most and I must have charged its batteries no more than three
times since I bought it. The reason for that is the lack of software for
it: I yearn for a good PIM suite and I'd love to see Kontact running on
it. Konqueror would be a nice addition, even though there is already an
Opera version running on it.

The N800 platform relies extensively on D-Bus and, albeit an older
version, it is a version supported by Qt. So we must have all pieces in
place for it. I don't think we can do without the Nokia services that
control the hardware, and those are accessed via D-Bus anyways.


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