Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
It is like an old but beloved car. It still runs and does what I want
but the older it gets it is harder to keep alive as efforts increase,
spares are harder to find and if I would like to have a bit more
comfort in it, the challenge starts.
If the old car still runs well and doesn't cause too much global
warming, it's sufficient to drive it around for laundry and groceries.
This is the point I mentioned. I "bought" that car to fullfil several
tasks of which laundry and groceries where a subset. For a while it
worked but more and more the usage is getting limited because the
streets have evolved and it gets more and more difficult to even drive
to the laundry without hazzles.
Two possible solutions from that dilemma have been discussed:
- Open Opie up for X11 applications: Does not solve the problem itself
but is more of a migration path away from Opie to soften issues
(mainly lack of applications)
- Follow the migration path of Qt/E to 4.x: Would open up new
applications (eg. coming from current KDE releases) but requires a
huge amount of effort especially to also migrate existing applications
and libraries, doing some necessary redesign, etc.
This is attractive for non-PDA machines, however for PDA users, opie + a
modern core is powerful enough.
To get that modern core one would have to go the Qt4.x way.
Oliver
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