Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-24 Thread Lorn Potter
On Saturday 24 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Am 23.05.2008 um 20:49 schrieb Lorn Potter:
  If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we.
 
 
  I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes.
  But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia
  apps is stupid.
  I would rather like to see a transition to EFL for the gtk apps.
 
  Everything i have seen so far from qtopia apps looks bland and  
  boring.
 
  Qtopia is easily changed/hacked on. The source code is provided for  
  free. You
  would be amazed at what some of Qtopia's customers are doing with  
  it. It's
  got styles/theming, has dynamic layouting, and easy translating even  
  for LTR
  languages.

 I like  to get surprised... :)

  I like the qtopia plattform, as a plattform. But i don't think it's  
  the
  way to build the nerdiest phone ever. Especially after so much was  
  done
  right before in a completely different way.
 
  Qtopia AFAIK has it's own pim storage api. How would non-qt apps  
  use them?
 
  Qtopia pim data are stored in a sqlite database. It is not a secret,  
  nor is it
  proprietary or locked down. So your application has a choice whether  
  to use
  some library that can access sqlite (Qtopia has that of course), or  
  use the
  commandline interface to sqlite.

 Well, that is a long time after embedded evolution data server was  
 declared the way to go on openmoko.
 And just my 2 Eurocents. I think this was a good decision.

  And the gsm stuff? Does this mean we now use the qtpia gsm stack?
  letting gsmd die would probably one of the better ideas. But i rather
  like so see it replaced by something similar but working instead of a
  set of qt apis.
 
  What is wrong with Qtopia's gsm stack? For the most part, it works.  
  It doesn't
  crash, and can send and receive sms messages. and best of all, it's  
  already
  written and working. If someone wrote/'ported' a wap stack, it would  
  even do
  mms.

 AFAIK it's a qt-API not a daemon, server whatever.
 I assume this means the dialer app becomes part of the phone framework?

The dialer can be replaced. It is not part of the QtopiaPhoneModem library, it 
is part of the server.



 Same concerns as for the PIM stuff. This makes gui apps infrastructure.

Qtopia is not one big binary. It has it's own libraries. The apps are separate 
from the libraries.


  Let's put it this way. Once I got the hardware, it took me less than  
  week to
  have Qtopia up and sending/receiving sms's and making phone calls.

 I always wondered why no one took teyr code and put it into something  
 like gsmd.
 *g*

Because the gsm code in Qtopia is specific to Qt and Qtopia.



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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-24 Thread Lorn Potter
On Saturday 24 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I just wanted to add that I think Qtopia is very interesting, and I'm
 really looking forward to trying it on my neo, and thank you to Trolltech
 for helping out with getting it on X11 and on the neo, and for putting up
 with all the criticism.
No worries, mate!
Thanks for that.


 Also, for the QT-naysayers: all the software is opensource, and you can
 easily get the GTK stack back in there in no-time (hell, currently it's
 easier to find the GTK images than the ASU images). So, what's the big
 trouble?

 Just my couple of eurocents, and hoping to get my efl+qt+gtk neo soon.

 Ivo Anjo



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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Tilman Baumann

Michael Shiloh wrote:

* Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17)

Nice.
* Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF, 
and Python applications all at the same time

Really nice.
* Replaced the GTK-based basic phone suite (dialer, contacts, SMS) 
with ones based on Qtopia


Why that? The old apps wheren't so bad. They even started to work in the 
last versions. :-)
I liked the style, i liked the architecture. I can not really believe 
that anyone would like to throw that all away.
Not mentioning that we walk on somewhat beaten tracks there. We hat more 
or less the same technology there as Maemo (Nokia) and Ubuntu mobile. 
And GPE fitted well too.


I hate the Qtopia stuff. It makes a good software for classic mobile 
handsets. But nothing innovative. Just another mobile phone gui like all 
the others we have seen so far.

It probably works well. But it is plainly boring. :-/


Will a 'new-world' Neo look anything like what i am used to right now?
Or what will it look like anyway?
Can i test the new stuff on my neo1973?
The last build i checked was all 'classic' stuff.

Maybe i like it, after i used it... :)

Regards
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Michele Renda

Hi Tilman

I think they prefered to use an existent project, because they need 
something running and to concentrate their energy to hardware part. They 
want to concentrate to the project of hardware, not in GUI writing.


According me is a good idea to reuse the software wrote by other people. 
In every case the software previously written in not trashed. It is 
released with open licences and it can be implemented by someone who 
hate too much Qtopia.


Concorrence is always good for users :)

Tilman Baumann wrote:
Why that? The old apps wheren't so bad. They even started to work in 
the last versions. :-)
I liked the style, i liked the architecture. I can not really believe 
that anyone would like to throw that all away.
Not mentioning that we walk on somewhat beaten tracks there. We hat 
more or less the same technology there as Maemo (Nokia) and Ubuntu 
mobile. And GPE fitted well too.


I hate the Qtopia stuff. It makes a good software for classic mobile 
handsets. But nothing innovative. Just another mobile phone gui like 
all the others we have seen so far.

It probably works well. But it is plainly boring. :-/


Will a 'new-world' Neo look anything like what i am used to right now?
Or what will it look like anyway?
Can i test the new stuff on my neo1973?
The last build i checked was all 'classic' stuff.

Maybe i like it, after i used it... :)

Regards
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Tilman Baumann

Michele Renda wrote:

Hi Tilman

I think they prefered to use an existent project, because they need 
something running and to concentrate their energy to hardware part. They 
want to concentrate to the project of hardware, not in GUI writing.

Openmoko is a Software project.
The software is the only thing that helps to make this 1990ies like 
piece of hardware cool.


According me is a good idea to reuse the software wrote by other people. 
In every case the software previously written in not trashed. It is 
released with open licences and it can be implemented by someone who 
hate too much Qtopia.
Hope so. The problem is that the community has little resources. 
Dividing these resources does not sound like a good idea.

And i cant's see how it helpes to throw most of the good work away.
(Ok, some was crap. But nothing beyond repair)
I think this will piss of developers.
And users.

Openmoko turned into a nice mobile computing platform with a very 
technocratic view on things.

This is a feature. I would say, _the_ feature.


Concorrence is always good for users :)

Not necessarily. I prefer innovation.
Especially in a industrey that has not produced innovation and good 
software for decades. (At least not since apple came.)

If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we.


I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes.
But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia 
apps is stupid.

I would rather like to see a transition to EFL for the gtk apps.

Everything i have seen so far from qtopia apps looks bland and boring.
I like the qtopia plattform, as a plattform. But i don't think it's the 
way to build the nerdiest phone ever. Especially after so much was done 
right before in a completely different way.


Qtopia AFAIK has it's own pim storage api. How would non-qt apps use them?

And the gsm stuff? Does this mean we now use the qtpia gsm stack?
letting gsmd die would probably one of the better ideas. But i rather 
like so see it replaced by something similar but working instead of a 
set of qt apis.


Is there any place where to look which back end functionalities will change?
Like evolution data server, dbus apis, gsmd, PhoneKit and such...

Well, we will see...
I should better keep my mouth shut and wait until there are GTA01 builds.

Regards
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Tilman Baumann

Tilman Baumann wrote:


Well, we will see...
I should better keep my mouth shut and wait until there are GTA01 builds.

As i'm just in the mood of speaking about the devil right now.
I hope this will not end as Nokia N770 all over again. I bought my Neo 
under the promise that all future software will run on them. (of course 
not as fast and without wlan and so on...)


Going back to work now. Maybe this will provide me a way to redirect my 
bad attitude into something productive... *g*


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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Lorn Potter
On Friday 23 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Michele Renda wrote:
  Hi Tilman
 
  I think they prefered to use an existent project, because they need
  something running and to concentrate their energy to hardware part. They
  want to concentrate to the project of hardware, not in GUI writing.

 Openmoko is a Software project.
 The software is the only thing that helps to make this 1990ies like
 piece of hardware cool.

  According me is a good idea to reuse the software wrote by other people.
  In every case the software previously written in not trashed. It is
  released with open licences and it can be implemented by someone who
  hate too much Qtopia.

 Hope so. The problem is that the community has little resources.
 Dividing these resources does not sound like a good idea.
 And i cant's see how it helpes to throw most of the good work away.
 (Ok, some was crap. But nothing beyond repair)
 I think this will piss of developers.
 And users.

You can please some of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all 
of the people all of the time. 


 Openmoko turned into a nice mobile computing platform with a very
 technocratic view on things.
 This is a feature. I would say, _the_ feature.

and it still exists.


  Concorrence is always good for users :)

 Not necessarily. I prefer innovation.
 Especially in a industrey that has not produced innovation and good
 software for decades. (At least not since apple came.)

Apple has had their share of junker software/hardware.

 If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we.


 I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes.
 But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia
 apps is stupid.
 I would rather like to see a transition to EFL for the gtk apps.

 Everything i have seen so far from qtopia apps looks bland and boring.

Qtopia is easily changed/hacked on. The source code is provided for free. You 
would be amazed at what some of Qtopia's customers are doing with it. It's 
got styles/theming, has dynamic layouting, and easy translating even for LTR 
languages.


 I like the qtopia plattform, as a plattform. But i don't think it's the
 way to build the nerdiest phone ever. Especially after so much was done
 right before in a completely different way.

 Qtopia AFAIK has it's own pim storage api. How would non-qt apps use them?

Qtopia pim data are stored in a sqlite database. It is not a secret, nor is it 
proprietary or locked down. So your application has a choice whether to use 
some library that can access sqlite (Qtopia has that of course), or use the 
commandline interface to sqlite.



 And the gsm stuff? Does this mean we now use the qtpia gsm stack?
 letting gsmd die would probably one of the better ideas. But i rather
 like so see it replaced by something similar but working instead of a
 set of qt apis.

What is wrong with Qtopia's gsm stack? For the most part, it works. It doesn't 
crash, and can send and receive sms messages. and best of all, it's already 
written and working. If someone wrote/'ported' a wap stack, it would even do 
mms.
Let's put it this way. Once I got the hardware, it took me less than week to 
have Qtopia up and sending/receiving sms's and making phone calls.


 Is there any place where to look which back end functionalities will
 change? Like evolution data server, dbus apis, gsmd, PhoneKit and such...

 Well, we will see...
 I should better keep my mouth shut and wait until there are GTA01 builds.

 Regards
   Tilman



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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Tilman Baumann


Am 23.05.2008 um 20:49 schrieb Lorn Potter:




If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we.


I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes.
But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia
apps is stupid.
I would rather like to see a transition to EFL for the gtk apps.

Everything i have seen so far from qtopia apps looks bland and  
boring.


Qtopia is easily changed/hacked on. The source code is provided for  
free. You
would be amazed at what some of Qtopia's customers are doing with  
it. It's
got styles/theming, has dynamic layouting, and easy translating even  
for LTR

languages.


I like  to get surprised... :)


I like the qtopia plattform, as a plattform. But i don't think it's  
the
way to build the nerdiest phone ever. Especially after so much was  
done

right before in a completely different way.

Qtopia AFAIK has it's own pim storage api. How would non-qt apps  
use them?


Qtopia pim data are stored in a sqlite database. It is not a secret,  
nor is it
proprietary or locked down. So your application has a choice whether  
to use
some library that can access sqlite (Qtopia has that of course), or  
use the

commandline interface to sqlite.


Well, that is a long time after embedded evolution data server was  
declared the way to go on openmoko.

And just my 2 Eurocents. I think this was a good decision.




And the gsm stuff? Does this mean we now use the qtpia gsm stack?
letting gsmd die would probably one of the better ideas. But i rather
like so see it replaced by something similar but working instead of a
set of qt apis.


What is wrong with Qtopia's gsm stack? For the most part, it works.  
It doesn't
crash, and can send and receive sms messages. and best of all, it's  
already
written and working. If someone wrote/'ported' a wap stack, it would  
even do

mms.

AFAIK it's a qt-API not a daemon, server whatever.
I assume this means the dialer app becomes part of the phone framework?

Same concerns as for the PIM stuff. This makes gui apps infrastructure.



Let's put it this way. Once I got the hardware, it took me less than  
week to

have Qtopia up and sending/receiving sms's and making phone calls.
I always wondered why no one took teyr code and put it into something  
like gsmd.

*g*

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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-23 Thread Ivo Anjo
I just wanted to add that I think Qtopia is very interesting, and I'm really
looking forward to trying it on my neo, and thank you to Trolltech for
helping out with getting it on X11 and on the neo, and for putting up with
all the criticism.

Also, for the QT-naysayers: all the software is opensource, and you can
easily get the GTK stack back in there in no-time (hell, currently it's
easier to find the GTK images than the ASU images). So, what's the big
trouble?

Just my couple of eurocents, and hoping to get my efl+qt+gtk neo soon.

Ivo Anjo

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Friday 23 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Michele Renda wrote:
   Hi Tilman
  
   I think they prefered to use an existent project, because they need
   something running and to concentrate their energy to hardware part.
 They
   want to concentrate to the project of hardware, not in GUI writing.
 
  Openmoko is a Software project.
  The software is the only thing that helps to make this 1990ies like
  piece of hardware cool.
 
   According me is a good idea to reuse the software wrote by other
 people.
   In every case the software previously written in not trashed. It is
   released with open licences and it can be implemented by someone who
   hate too much Qtopia.
 
  Hope so. The problem is that the community has little resources.
  Dividing these resources does not sound like a good idea.
  And i cant's see how it helpes to throw most of the good work away.
  (Ok, some was crap. But nothing beyond repair)
  I think this will piss of developers.
  And users.

 You can please some of the people some of the time, but you cannot please
 all
 of the people all of the time. 

 
  Openmoko turned into a nice mobile computing platform with a very
  technocratic view on things.
  This is a feature. I would say, _the_ feature.

 and it still exists.

 
   Concorrence is always good for users :)
 
  Not necessarily. I prefer innovation.
  Especially in a industrey that has not produced innovation and good
  software for decades. (At least not since apple came.)

 Apple has had their share of junker software/hardware.

  If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we.
 
 
  I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes.
  But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia
  apps is stupid.
  I would rather like to see a transition to EFL for the gtk apps.
 
  Everything i have seen so far from qtopia apps looks bland and boring.

 Qtopia is easily changed/hacked on. The source code is provided for free.
 You
 would be amazed at what some of Qtopia's customers are doing with it. It's
 got styles/theming, has dynamic layouting, and easy translating even for
 LTR
 languages.


  I like the qtopia plattform, as a plattform. But i don't think it's the
  way to build the nerdiest phone ever. Especially after so much was done
  right before in a completely different way.
 
  Qtopia AFAIK has it's own pim storage api. How would non-qt apps use
 them?

 Qtopia pim data are stored in a sqlite database. It is not a secret, nor is
 it
 proprietary or locked down. So your application has a choice whether to use
 some library that can access sqlite (Qtopia has that of course), or use the
 commandline interface to sqlite.


 
  And the gsm stuff? Does this mean we now use the qtpia gsm stack?
  letting gsmd die would probably one of the better ideas. But i rather
  like so see it replaced by something similar but working instead of a
  set of qt apis.

 What is wrong with Qtopia's gsm stack? For the most part, it works. It
 doesn't
 crash, and can send and receive sms messages. and best of all, it's already
 written and working. If someone wrote/'ported' a wap stack, it would even
 do
 mms.
 Let's put it this way. Once I got the hardware, it took me less than week
 to
 have Qtopia up and sending/receiving sms's and making phone calls.

 
  Is there any place where to look which back end functionalities will
  change? Like evolution data server, dbus apis, gsmd, PhoneKit and such...
 
  Well, we will see...
  I should better keep my mouth shut and wait until there are GTA01 builds.
 
  Regards
Tilman



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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Lorn Potter
On Thursday 22 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited
 my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The
 important facts are that the new software:


 * Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17)
 * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF,
 and Python applications all at the same time

Actually, Trolltech had done most of the 'porting' to X11 work already.


 * Replaced the GTK-based basic phone suite (dialer, contacts, SMS)
 with ones based on Qtopia


 I hope this better explains the situation.

 Regards,
 Michael

 (Full posting at
 http://gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/openmoko-software-up
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 22 May 2008 15:58:43 +1000 Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:

 On Thursday 22 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited
  my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The
  important facts are that the new software:
 
 
  * Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17)
  * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF,
  and Python applications all at the same time
 
 Actually, Trolltech had done most of the 'porting' to X11 work already.

indeed - though it has needed much loving so it behaves normally or even
optimally in x when you have a window manager... :)

 
  * Replaced the GTK-based basic phone suite (dialer, contacts, SMS)
  with ones based on Qtopia
 
 
  I hope this better explains the situation.
 
  Regards,
  Michael
 
  (Full posting at
  http://gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/openmoko-software-up
 date/)
 
 
 
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 21:45:37 Michael Shiloh wrote:
   * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF, and 
 Python applications all at the same time

Hmmm... Just wondering if anyone has seen this:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/

Basically Jens has written a Qt4 style which will use the current GTK+
theme to draw stuff. I think it might be useful on OpenMoko because
it has the potential to give the Qtopia/X11 apps the same look  feel
as the GTK+ apps.

Just a thought! 



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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Lalo Martins
Also spracht Michele Renda (Wed, 21 May 2008 22:51:47 +0200):
 A lot of people that are afraid that Nokia, as owner of Trolltech, can
 be against Openmoko freedom, but I think you are not stupid and you know
 what are you doing.

Nokia makes money out of handsets, not software.  Who knows?  They may be 
watching OM very closely, hoping it will be the thing that finally 
allows them to use a more open platform, networks be damned ;-)n

best,
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   then they seem improbable, and then, when we
   summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Michele Renda

Yes, it is possible. But often Hardware producer are linked to carriers.
I remember how phone producer try to disable VoIp function from their 
devices. And this is not nice.


I don't know how Nokia will like an open phone. But we can not to know!

Lalo Martins wrote:

Nokia makes money out of handsets, not software.  Who knows?  They may be
watching OM very closely, hoping it will be the thing that finally
allows them to use a more open platform, networks be damned ;-)n

best,
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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Michael Shiloh



Lorn Potter wrote:

On Thursday 22 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited
my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The
important facts are that the new software:


* Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17)
* Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF,
and Python applications all at the same time


Actually, Trolltech had done most of the 'porting' to X11 work already.


Hi Lorn,

Thanks for the clarification upon my clarification. I will edit my blog 
to correctly credit this.


Michael

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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-22 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Tom Cooksey wrote:

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 21:45:37 Michael Shiloh wrote:
	* Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF, and 
Python applications all at the same time


Hmmm... Just wondering if anyone has seen this:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/


Yes, I've seen and loved this, thinking the same you've proposed btw in 
this case maybe it won't work as expected since I don't know really how 
qtopia apps are themed: are they using simply Qt themes?
If they do, maybe, it will be possible using them with the old gtk Om 
theme!


Anyway I don't know if the qgtkskyle wrapper has some performance issues 
on small devices like Freerunner...	


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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-21 Thread Matthew Peterson
Special Agent Michael Shiloh reported at 12:45 05/21/08:
 I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited  
 my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The  
 important facts are that the new software:

   * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, ELF, and 
  
 Python applications all at the same time
   * Replaced the GTK-based basic phone suite (dialer, contacts, SMS) with 
  
 ones based on Qtopia

Someone might want to edit or remove:

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Why_Not_QT


Matthew

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Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-21 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:51:47 +0200 Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
babbled:

 Hi Michael,
 I think you and your team are doing a courageous but good choose.
 I ask only that if in the future this choose will limit Openmoko 
 openess, you will protect us!
 A lot of people that are afraid that Nokia, as owner of Trolltech, can 
 be against Openmoko freedom, but I think you are not stupid and you know 
 what are you doing.

at WORST nokia can close off FUTURE qt/qtopia/qpe releases or make it a license
we cannot stomach - we can still ship what they have today as it is available
as GPL. if that were to ever happen we'd ship what they have before a license
change or closing-off of the code and not upgrade. in the longer-term of course
that software is dead weight, but it'd do for now until it gets replaced. i
don't see a lot fear unless we are banking the WHOLE platform on it. as it
stands we are delivering qt and qtopia/qpe as part of a set of applications.
the platform is heterogeneous and has multiple toolkits available for use and
developers may choose whichever suits them best. we dont limit you to the one
choice that we made (beyond using x11 - but even then you are free to modify
the core os, remove x11 and do your own entire ui yourself... if you want).

 Good luck!
 
 Michael Shiloh wrote:
  I have had some further discussions with headquarters, and have edited 
  my blog to try to explain the new software a little better. The 
  important facts are that the new software:
 
 
  * Switches the Window Manager from Matchbox to Enlightenment (E17)
  * Ported Qtopia to Xorg, so it is possible to run Qtopia, GTK, 
  ELF, and Python applications all at the same time
  * Replaced the GTK-based basic phone suite (dialer, contacts, SMS) 
  with ones based on Qtopia
 
 
  I hope this better explains the situation.
 
  Regards,
  Michael
 
  (Full posting at 
  http://gettingstartedopenmoko.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/openmoko-software-update/)
   
 
 
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