Re: [sword-devel] BibleTime, Qt and S60 (coming soon)?
-Original Message- From: Eeli Kaikkonen Sent: 9 сентября 2009 г. 12:55 To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Subject: Re: [sword-devel] BibleTime, Qt and S60 (coming soon)? On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, David Haslam wrote: > > The Qt site headlines has S60 (coming soon). See http://qt.nokia.com/ > http://qt.nokia.com/ > > Would this mean that once it has appeared, it should be feasible to port > BibleTime to Symbian S60 based mobile phones? > > If so, this might bring closure to the fact that we had nothing to offer nor > recommend for the S60 platform. > > -- David I was working for Nokia (not anymore) and followed the situation with Qt. Back then, this looked like an interesting possibility, and still does. However, the BibleTime's user interface hasn't been designed for handheld devices. Straightforward porting would probably make a poor user experience. I would rather recommend designing a new simple UI which then would automatically work on all platforms, adding not only an S60 application to our offerings but also a small, simple cross-platform application. This is only my opinion which is based on very superficial knowledge on S60 port of Qt. I would be happy if someone really ported BT for S60 and if it worked. [The entire original message is not included] ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
Re: [sword-devel] BibleTime, Qt and S60 (coming soon)?
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, David Haslam wrote: > > The Qt site headlines has S60 (coming soon). See http://qt.nokia.com/ > http://qt.nokia.com/ > > Would this mean that once it has appeared, it should be feasible to port > BibleTime to Symbian S60 based mobile phones? > > If so, this might bring closure to the fact that we had nothing to offer nor > recommend for the S60 platform. > > -- David I was working for Nokia (not anymore) and followed the situation with Qt. Back then, this looked like an interesting possibility, and still does. However, the BibleTime's user interface hasn't been designed for handheld devices. Straightforward porting would probably make a poor user experience. I would rather recommend designing a new simple UI which then would automatically work on all platforms, adding not only an S60 application to our offerings but also a small, simple cross-platform application. This is only my opinion which is based on very superficial knowledge on S60 port of Qt. I would be happy if someone really ported BT for S60 and if it worked. Yours, Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland e-mail: eekai...@mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x) ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
[sword-devel] BibleTime, Qt and S60 (coming soon)?
The Qt site headlines has S60 (coming soon). See http://qt.nokia.com/ http://qt.nokia.com/ Would this mean that once it has appeared, it should be feasible to port BibleTime to Symbian S60 based mobile phones? If so, this might bring closure to the fact that we had nothing to offer nor recommend for the S60 platform. -- David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/BibleTime%2C-Qt-and-S60-%28coming-soon%29--tp25341134p25341134.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
