OpenMoko application as Final Year Project

Giles Jones giles.jones at zen.co.uk
Sat Oct 6 14:31:19 CEST 2007


On 6 Oct 2007, at 13:27, Chris Lord wrote:

>
> As far as I know, this student hasn't started on his application, and
> I'm sure he'll pick whatever libraries make the most sense to him,  
> given
> the limited time he has. I've also not said that Qt should be banished
> from OpenMoko, or that Qt is bad in some way.
>
> The fact is, that on a machine constrained by memory resources, CPU
> resources and storage resources, that diverging from the specified
> foundation libraries is not a good idea. If the platform was based on
> Qt/Qtopia, I'd give the exact same advice to stick away from GTK.

What you are told to do in your project is write down all the options  
and argue the reasons for or against them. So it's no use to be  
biased and rule all the options out without justification.



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