[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Porting Qt to Maemo

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext antikristian wrote:
> I realize the advantage of having a full blown qt impementation to run
> qt-apps in maemo, Bu wouldn't this be doing something that has
> allready been done before; Porting qt to handheld devices? Is it
> possible to uuse qtopia somehow? maybe run qtopia apps ontop of maemo?
> Is there anything we can use from the qtopia project?
>
Qtopia works over Qt/e ( Qt-embedded ), that renders directly to the
frame buffer and can't co-exist with maemo and all
other maemo apps . Maemo uses X11 as Linux desktop and in this case you
need to use real QT and not Qt/e
So, if you use qtopia, you will loose all of your maemo apps and least
to me this is completelly unacceptable.

I actually did my port just to get one qtopia application ( cumulus
aviation map software ) to work with 770.
I just have very small qtopia emulation layer, there is no need for 99%
of qtopia services in maemo because
they just implements same things than maemo and much incompatible way.

Kate
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> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:26:35 +0100, Kate Alhola
> <kate.alhola at nokia.com> wrote:
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>> ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> today I did a little test with Qt and Maemo 2.2 SDK. I recompiled Qt
>>> 4.2.2 into the Scratchbox with maemo 2.2 installed and I was able to
>>> run a little Qt-HelloWorld inside the "emulator".
>>>
>>> I wonder if it would be possible to realize a real port of Qt into
>>> Maemo and make it run on Nokia 770/800.
>>>
>>> In my opinion this could be possible.
>>>
>> It is possible and done already. About most work was needed to integrate
>> with
>> existing hildon_im  . I can put my port to garage.maemo.org but i
>> just need
>> to hear from someone from osso permission to put it with needed
>> hildon_im .h files
>>> We should strip out parts that are not necessary, for example:
>>> examples, documentation, headers and possibly other stuff like opengl,
>>> variuos db drivers ecc.... we should try to reduce the size the most
>>> we can.
>>>
>> And then you need input method support, support for  some default  maemo
>> keys.
>> Thing that i have at the moment missing is support for menus in standard
>> maemo menubar. It just looks little bit stupid having menus top of
>> window.
>>
>> Kate
>>> Once this is done, we could also write application using Qt/C++ and
>>> not only GTK/C.
>>>
>>> What do you think about this? Anyone is interested in this project and
>>> want to help me?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>
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> --Mvh
> Kristian Alvestad
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