On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 8:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, this should have ended last week. The original
question asked was "why continue with OpenMoko development when Qtopia
is available, faster, more complete and stable?". It was debated and
some pretty conclusive reasons came out (as posted last Thursday)
1) Redundency is good, if Qtopia fails for some reason, there's an
alternative.
2) A greater number existing applications can be ported easily to an X
based framework. There is also precedent in the Maemo >project of
where this has been very useful.
I'd like to add a 3rd: Competition breeds innovation. :-)
I guess a 4th reason that's come out now is "some people just prefer
the GTK+ api" and maybe a 5th reason "some people prefer the LGPL over
the GPL".
So there you go, there's the 5 reasons why OpenMoko development will
continue.Agree or disagree those are the reasons. Perhaps these could
be added to the wiki to avoid future debates running over the same
ground?
Cheers,
Tom
PS: The "faster, more complete and stable" bit refers to the _current_
state of OpenMoko and not to what OpenMoko will obviously become.
I guess my only comment is that while I don't really care which
interface people use on their phones, it seems like the data interfaces
should be the same... If I open up qtopia phone edition and look at my
contacts or maybe even edit them and then close it down and open up my
OM interface and look at them, they should be the same. All edit are
visible.. No double entry.
In general, I think that all of that should be possible regardless of
which interface you use to view/interact with the phone. Gives a little
more isolation of the interface from the implementation of where
everything is, and it gives people the option to switch at any time
without fear that they need to copy / backup-restore their data when
switching. Especially with the relevation about being able to run them
both at the same time. (Qt has x11 libraries/bindings right?) So you
could write qt apps which interact with GTK+ apps through the common
data infrastructure.
--Tim
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