On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:47 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: > > It's such a shame when such a nice, user-friendly PDA suite like Opie > > ends up being based on a framework which alienates more than 95% of > > existing *nix gui apps. > > This is just fud. > Opie is such a nice, user friendly PDA suite _because_ it is based on Qt and > Qtopia. > > The majority of existing *nix gui apps will not scale down to the display > size or memory > requirements of mobile handhelds, regardless if opie used X11, or gtk, or > even ncurses. So your > point about alienation is moot.
Man, it's a bit flamey in here. /me dons asbestos suit Yes - there are a whole lot of gui apps, quite likely a majority, which won't run well on a mobile handheld without a panning virtual screen. I have expressed a few gripes here myself about apps on the Angstrom feeds such as Abiword and Gnucalc. But there are plenty of existing gui apps which run just fine on mobile devices. For instance, links-x11 which is so far the overall best and most usable web browser I've seen in the Angstrom environment. Also, one of the advantages of X is the sheer number of GUI frameworks which are based on it. Developers writing gui apps have the choice of gtk[+], qt, Xaw, wx, tk, fox, fltk etc, and will usually choose one or two to suit their own tastes and way of thinking. Each gui framework has its points of appeal and revulsion - what satisfies one programmer will piss off other programmers. Qt is no exception, it has its devotees and its detractors. So to have a device which locks out all but one gui framework risks deterring a lot of developers. Many folks when confronted with a qt-only architecture will be tempted to take their creativity and labour into other arenas. > ever heard of xqt? > http://xqt.sourceforge.jp/ Hmm, I notice an xqt and xqt2 in the OE dev tree. How hard would it be to have Opie using that? Is it just a matter of on-device configuration, or would it tend to break Opie? Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
