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

[From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

> Why are you trying this? I would recommend porting the whole OPIE to the N770. 
> That would be an alternative to Maemo. I personally feel a little bit home using Qt.
> Using both Maemo & Qt would be a waste of resources.

Users care about applications, not about environments. Porting the
complete Opie environment to the N770 would just add up to the
fragmentation. Writing a Qt Hildon compatibility layer would make [some]
Opie applications run next to the other Hildon applications while
retaining their look and feel.

>But Maemo is still a new, incompatible 
> system (ok there's some compatibility with gtk+) and writing a compatibility layer for 
> Qt makes the situation even worse. Better use OPIE. And if OPIE is the  better 
> system, a lot of people will install it on their N770 and use it - if not, stay with Maemo 
> and write the software for it.

There's hardly a comparison. Maemo has a much better Linux technology
integration and a much better look and feel. Opie has some great
applications, but the complete environment lacks many things to come
even near to being an alternative to a Maemo standard installation.

-- 
Regards,

Mickey.
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Dipl.-Inf. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at tm.cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
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