New QT Target Proposal

[koos vriezen]

2007/6/4, Benjamin Long <bflong at longbros.com>:
> On Monday 04 June 2007 4:52:38 am Ariya Hidayat wrote:
[..]
> > One curious question: since N800 runs X, what was the reason you
> > choose adapting KDE to Qtopia instead of going straight the Qt/X11
> > way?
>
> Well, X11 would just be too easy :)
> Really, I think it would take a lot of work to shrink KDE's UI down to
> something that worked well on a handheld, although it could be done. On the
> other hand, Qtopia is GPL, and has all the low level pieces designed for
> handhelds from the start. So my thinking was that it was more productive to
> get kde's libs, and later it's apps, running with Qtopia-core.

It's your effort, but when talking about a device like N800 w/ 128Mb
or RAM, by the time you ported all KDE apps to this platform, it
successor probably has >2Gb of RAM.
Instead just porting Qt-X11 to this device, like solving the input
issue w/ the virtual
keyboard, one might get it done before there is a successor. And one still can
use the really good things from the internet tablet platform, like the
Wifi connection manager and the Apt package manager while porting. Not
to mention things like the flash plugin/real player for the Opera
browser and other goodies that you can re-use.

Just a thought of course .. (but I'm not going to replacing a real
X-server to a fb based platform, designed for 32Mb or less)

Koos