[Kde-maemo] sprint opportunity

Alexis Ménard menard at kde.org
Mon Apr 12 23:01:42 BST 2010


2010/4/12 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) <asouza at kde.org>:
> On Monday 12 April 2010, 08:14 Kevin Ottens wrote:
>> Really it depends how much it'll be about bringing KDE/Qt on *symbian*
>> (specific) or KDE/Qt on *mobiles* (generic). I've no experience with the
>> symbian toolchain for instance or symbian based device.
>>
>> So I'm not overly interested in a sprint where I'd spend my time fighting
>> over the symbian toolchain. Now if I spend the sprint working on less
>> symbian dependent issue my personal interest would raise.
>>
>> I can't talk for the whole kde-maemo list of course, but I suspect that I'm
>> not alone with this position.
>
> +1.
>
> Specially because doing Symbian work usually needs a Windows machine at some
> point and most of us just don't use Windows (ok, we know that you can compile
> Qt stuff on linux for Symbian too, it just not so good yet). Isn't Maemo/Meego
> a good strategy for them? Or they really need Symbian related stuff ?
>

Actually Qt for Symbian and Qt Apps builds fine with gcce on Linux.
ThomasZ can talk more about it.
Windows is not anymore a hard requirement.

I agree with Kevin. We should more focus on how we can improve KDE for
mobile than fighting against a build system.
What will be the benefit of saying : "look KDE runs on Symbian" if KDE
runs at 2 FPS eating 60% of the memory. No point. Nokia/whoever will
not care.
In the other hand if KDE runs fine on Maemo/Meego where we can already
build/run/debug (with pain though) then it's just a matter of working
later on the S60 port only.

There is so many to do regardless of Symbian just by considering Maemo/Meego.

> Cheers,
>
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