Plasma running on S60 device

[Alexis Ménard]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Alexis Ménard <menard at kde.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) <
> morpheuz at openbossa.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Jani,
>>
>> On Friday 05 June 2009, 07:32 Jani Hautakangas wrote:
>> >  What should I do to get this project started? Who should I contact? It
>> > would really nice if someone could walk me through to get this project
>> up.
>> > I guess that S60 port will have webpage of its own http://s60.kde.orglike
>> > other ports have their own. Eventually this project will be KDE for
>> Symbian
>> > but since Symbian Foundation is not yet properly running lets keep it
>> KDE
>> > on S60. Finally when we have KDE or parts of it up and running we can
>> start
>> > pushing this upstream. I'm sure that not every component is feasible for
>> > S60/Symbian but at least Plasma looks very promising. There is no
>> guarantee
>> > that that this will ever fly but at least we can try.
>>
>> I think that the best way to start this project is to request an svn
>> account
>> and start working on playground. In KDE's svn server there is a folder
>> named
>> "playground" where we can put all our prototypes. I think this would be a
>> good
>> place to start.
>>
>> It's important that you start sharing the code from the beginning with the
>> community so we can give you some help with that. Kevin and others can
>> help a
>> lot and there are a lot of Nokians around also that can help. But if you
>> keep
>> the code somewhere that we can't see it would be difficult to help...
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> Yes this is open source philosophy. Then you will have people to help you
> with KDE knowledge.
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>> >       - CMake doesn't support Symbian. We must use QMake for now.
>> >
>> >       - Qt for S60 doesn't support QtDBus. There are few alternatives
>> for this:
>> >               - Implement QtDBus for S60 (native or use LIW/AIW behind
>> the scenes)
>> >               - Use S60 LIW/AIW directly
>> >               - Use upcoming Qt Service Framework if it is feasible
>> >               - Beg QtSoftware to port QtDBus for S60
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>> Maybe Alexis can talk with the guys from the S60 port about QtDBus status
>> ? :)
>> Otherwise I can go and talk with them but probably it would be faster if
>> Alexis
>> just go to their office =P
>>
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> There is no plan to support QtDBus on S60 since nobody using it before KDE.
> We have heard that somebody port it to S60 but
> if somebody make that thing up and running on S60 then Qt Software will be
> glad to take a look on the merge
> request.
>

Nobody using it on S60 before jani came with a KDE on it.


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>> > My employer Tieto http://www.tieto.com is willing to contribute/sponsor
>> > this project. Tieto is among the leading Symbian R&D service providers
>> for
>> > OEMs globally with up to 1300 persons in Mobile Devices R&D globally.
>>
>> I know your company...there were some Tieto's workers on a project that I
>> was
>> working :)
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> That is nice, but this should happen on KDE repo, with KDE folks, Qt
> Software people,
> tieto guys to make this port a success.
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>> So please: put the code somewhere on svn and come to #plasma on freenode
>> :)
>> Welcome aboard ;)
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>
> Welcome!.
>
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>> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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>> OpenBossa Research Labs
>> INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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