Qtopia coming for Neo1973

[Lorn Potter]

Carlo E. Prelz wrote:
> 	Subject: Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973
> 	Date: mar 25 set 07 08:18:31 +0200
> 
> Quoting Dani Anon (mrtitor at gmail.com):
> 
>> - But QT is not free (as in beer) for commercial usage
> 
> This is not the only reason why Qtopia is sub-optimal.

It's not a reason at all. Neo is a "free" phone! If I wanted commercial 
applications, I could easily use any other phone out there. The reason 
why we are all here, is because the Neo is 'free software'. Would the 
Neo interest you as much if it wasn't as 'free'?

> 
> QT is bound to C++. With GTK you can choose to program in C, or, if
> you really want to, in C++. With QT there is no way you can write your
> code in C. 

There is no way right now because no one has written a wrapper. It's not 
impossible.


> 
> Also, Qtopia, by having no X server running in the background, makes
> it much more difficult for the average developer to bring his/her own
> window to the screen of the phone. 

  not really. <qt-rant>In fact, coding with Qt is much faster than gtk. 
Ask people that have done both.</qt-rant>


> With X, there are dozens of ways to
> paste an interactive window to the screen. They may be esthetically
> discordant with the main theme of the phone, but your code can
> communicate to the phone user and the phone hardware. I do not know
> how easy it is for one's application to talk to the windowing system
> underlying qtopia, 

Easier, IMHO, than with gtk/xlibs. X11 development is rather arcane.

> but I have reasons to believe that a) I should have
> to learn to code in a totally different environment, and b) that
> environment would require coding in C++. Both things are not desirable
> for me.

fair enough reasons here.

> 
> I see OpenMoko as a developer-oriented phone/system. Even if current
> performance may be not that awe-generating, processor speeds are going
> to increase, and optimizations will certainly be made. 

They haven't progressed that much in the last 6 years. Slower cpu uses 
less power.



-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech