New QT Target Proposal

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 04 June 2007 10:46, Benjamin Long wrote:
> 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.

Cool project !
How do you get around the crosscompiling ? Using scratchbox ?

Bye
Alex