[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RFC: Qtopia Nokia N770 (maemo) porting layer

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Holger Freyther wrote:
> Hi Pals, Nokia,
As only my personal viewbased on my prtsonal project
> I would be intersted in leading the development of a LGPL/BSD licensed
> porting layer of the Qtopia platform for the maemo platform.
>
> Why such a layer is good:
> -Existing applications can be utilized for Maemo by easily migrating
> them to use osso/hildon technology
> -More applications will make hildon/osso more attractive
> -Give developers the choiche to target any platform easily
> -Maemo is a great piece of Free Software and should be supported
>
> How such a port would look like:
> -We would use Qt2/X11 and make it look like the maemo gui
> -We would implement libqpe,libqtopia, libqtopia1, libqtopiapim
> using osso, hildon and Qt2
> -In the future we should use Qt4 but that would require more porting
> of the applications.
I did a minimum porting layer to get qtopia application ( cumulus /
www.kflog.org )
to running. I did it based on qt3.3. I get it so far that i get application
running in real 770. The most important things missing was
support for maemo desktop and input methods. I also did't even try to make
it yet as a stand alone layer.

I even did not try any clean room but just use modifies qutopia libraries
and so resulting stuff will still be GPL (least i think, i am not
sppecialist in legal stuff )


Kate
> What we need:
> -Legal counseling if we can do a clean room implementations and
> how it should look like.
> -Sponsors:
> -People Donating Time to this project
> -People/Companies Donating Money to this project allowing
> people to work on it during office hours (not for myself though)
> -People writing tests and setting up a QA infrastructure
> -People Testing our Work
> -People porting/verifying application work
> -People enjoying using maemo
>
> How should we proceed:
> -We should gather enough people to start this project
> -We should have enough information to start the clean room
> implementation.
> -We should quantify which classes are mostly needed to port
> most of the apps.
>
>
> if you are interested please email me
>
> regards holger
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