Project: Konqueror/Embedded for Qtopia

[Lorn Potter]

Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am glad to announce, that basysKom (my company) concluded a contract to port 
> the current version of Konqueror/Embedded based on KDE 3.5 to Qtopia PDA 
> Edition 2.2 (based on Qt 2.3.12) and to add a customized GUI with a number of 
> additional features. 
> 
> The whole source - also the new GUI - will be placed under a free licenses 
> (LGPL and GPL) and we want to develop in close cooperation with the KDE 
> community. The goal is, to not develop a dead end product, but to make sure 
> the efforts will be reused.
> 
> Here are the features we are going to implement until end of March are the 
> following:

FYI There already is an older version of konqe working for Qtopia and 
friends.. ported long ago and in a land far far away..

http://devel-home.kde.org/~hausmann/snapshots/Attic/



> - Port to Qt2 & Qtopia, as necessary fix font handling, encoding detection, 
> alpha blending for Qt2
> - GUI framework for the special display design (640x240, landscape) 
> - persistent cookies, accept all cookies automatically
> - tab-browsing (as multi-windows) and popup management

There is a tabs patch I can email you for the above source code of old 
konqe. :)

> - url line with history, persistent history
> - web search input line
> - security indicator
> - full screen mode
> - bookmark management 
> - persistent self-signed SSL certificates
> - dialog for certificate management
> - proxy configuration dialog
> - image zooming
> - prefetching of scripts (delayed loading of images)
> - mimetypes & download manager 
> - performance and stability improvements for IO scheduler (optimized for GPRS 
> => many http requests in parallel)
> 
> Currently Konqueror/Embedded is developed in the kdenox module in SVN. It 
> works together with the current version in the 3.5 branch. In order to 
> compile Konq/E a script is applied which copies over a number of files, 
> patches some of them and further more there exist dropin replacements. 
> 
> The whole development setup is somewhat difficult, because we have to deal 
> with different Qt versions in parallel and also the desktop/embedded 
> environment which is based on patches. We want to suggest the following 
> setup:
> 
> - we continue to work with the 3.5 branch of kdelibs, as it is mostly stable
> - we develop new features for the 3.5 version of Konq/E first. This allows us 
> to copy over code from konqueror and to adapt it. 
> - for the qt2 port we generate a set of compat implementations to minimize 
> #ifdef-ed code and a series of patches for the kdesrc code. We are doing an 
> initial port right now. 
> - for easier development, we suggest to generate a kdenox branch. This way we 
> don't interfere with other people using kdenox. Into this branch we would to 
> check in the complete sources (also the one copied from kdelibs). From there 
> we would create patches for the current version of kdenox.
> - wrt the GUI implementation and most of the GUI features we are not sure yet. 
> I wonder of how much use this is to other users of Konq/E. Either we create 
> an alternative src directory. Maybe it's ok to just have another mainwindow.
> 
> Any feedback welcome.
> 
> Greetings,
> eva
> 
> 


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Trolltech Qtopia Community Manager
Opie Core Developer
http://qtopia.net