New QT Target Proposal

[Benjamin Long]

On Monday 04 June 2007 4:41:54 am Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Yep! It's done. I got a conformation email that my SVN account has been 
created.

> 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.

They are not intrusive at all. Nothing functionally changes, really. The only 
thing I can think of that might be intrusive is a change to kapplication in 
the future, and that will probably be held in an #ifdef anyway.

> 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.

You're in the same boat as me then. Exact same problem. No good apps.

> 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.

There are others working on the low end stuff already. The Angstrom handheld 
distribution has preliminary support for the Nokias.

Benjamin Long
AKA: Bipolar