David McNab wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 01:53 +0200, James A. Langbridge wrote:
AFAIK, Opie uses it's own terminal/X11-ish screen, so normal X11
applications (including Gnome/GTK/etc applications) can't find the
display, and think they are in a terminal mode. Unfortunately, Opie (in
it's current release at least) won't be able to handle non-Opie
applications, and minimo and links-x11 aren't native Opie apps. This was
discussed a while ago; someone suggested Opera, but believed that it was
closed-source. Opie used to have an embedded-konqueror, but I haven't
been able to find a package, and I haven't been able to build it from
the OE sources. A good browser is the only thing that I miss in the Opie
distribution :)
It's such a shame when such a nice, user-friendly PDA suite like Opie
ends up being based on a framework which alienates more than 95% of
existing *nix gui apps.
This is just fud.
Opie is such a nice, user friendly PDA suite _because_ it is based on Qt and
Qtopia.
The majority of existing *nix gui apps will not scale down to the display size or memory
requirements of mobile handhelds, regardless if opie used X11, or gtk, or even ncurses. So your
point about alienation is moot.
Would there be any hope of seeing an Opie in the future built on a Qt
over Xfbdev foundation?
ever heard of xqt?
http://xqt.sourceforge.jp/
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