New QT Target Proposal

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Monday 04 June 2007 12:06, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2007, koos vriezen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> i think you're vastly overestimating both the pace of hardware advancement
> on handle devices (which, while impressive, is nowhere near what you
> suggest) and the amount of time it will take to get KDE on the system. he's
> already got it building and basically running, if not stable.
>
> > 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
>
> as i understand it, things like the wifi connection stuff are mostly dbus
> services, so it should be trivial to interface with it from outside of an
> X11 env.
>
> > 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)
>
> if one looks beyond just the nokia platform, it starts to make a lot more
> sense.

Agreed! it'd be awesome if some day in the future, a _full_ KDE system could 
run on a free platform without X11. :)

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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