New QT Target Proposal

[Benjamin Long]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 6:21:53 pm Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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

I haven't crosscompiled yet. I'm doing my work on x86 and displaying in Qvfb 
(virtual frame buffer).

Benjamin Long