Carlo E. Prelz wrote:
Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973
Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200
Quoting Dani Anon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
- But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage
This is not the only reason why Qtopia is sub-optimal.
It's not a reason at all. Neo is a "free" phone! If I wanted commercial
applications, I could easily use any other phone out there. The reason
why we are all here, is because the Neo is 'free software'. Would the
Neo interest you as much if it wasn't as 'free'?
QT is bound to C++. With GTK you can choose to program in C, or, if
you really want to, in C++. With QT there is no way you can write your
code in C.
There is no way right now because no one has written a wrapper. It's not
impossible.
Also, Qtopia, by having no X server running in the background, makes
it much more difficult for the average developer to bring his/her own
window to the screen of the phone.
not really. <qt-rant>In fact, coding with Qt is much faster than gtk.
Ask people that have done both.</qt-rant>
With X, there are dozens of ways to
paste an interactive window to the screen. They may be esthetically
discordant with the main theme of the phone, but your code can
communicate to the phone user and the phone hardware. I do not know
how easy it is for one's application to talk to the windowing system
underlying qtopia,
Easier, IMHO, than with gtk/xlibs. X11 development is rather arcane.
but I have reasons to believe that a) I should have
to learn to code in a totally different environment, and b) that
environment would require coding in C++. Both things are not desirable
for me.
fair enough reasons here.
I see OpenMoko as a developer-oriented phone/system. Even if current
performance may be not that awe-generating, processor speeds are going
to increase, and optimizations will certainly be made.
They haven't progressed that much in the last 6 years. Slower cpu uses
less power.
--
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech
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