On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:22:48PM +0000, Jeffrey Lee wrote: > Hi, > > As you may have heard, I've managed to port ArcEm to the Sharp Zaurus (A > fairly popular ARM Linux PDA). The performance is terrible, but I think > that was to be expected. The port did involve writing a Qt interface, so > it may pave the way for ports to other systems that use Qt. > > The source code is pretty much ready for merging into CVS, so let me know > if/how you want to do it and we'll take it from there.
If sounds good it think some desktop linux users would be interested in a more modern interface than the XLib one, I suppose the question is how much Zaurus specific code is in the QT code? keymappings? Any hardware specific things? Is it endian neutral and 64 bit safe? It might be worth seperating out the QT parts from the Zaurus parts, and laying the code out something like this. So it's easier for us to add other qt ports in future? Arcem + X + arch + macosx + (etc) + qt + qt-zaurus + (qt-desktop) Or even Arcem + X + (etc) + qt + zaurus + (desktop) Did you have to alter any of the core code to make it work? That might be a sticking point if it can't be made optional, but other than that there's no reason why it can't be checked it. If you could chuck an archive of the source up somewhere so we could have a check through it first that'd be most handy. Once I've had a check to make sure you're not a completely deranged coder ;) I can check it in for you, or we can get Ralph to add you to the projects members (need a sourceforge username) so you can get CVS access yourself. There's still quite a lot of code duplicated across different platforms that really should be refactored into core code. Which should hopefully reduce the effort of porting further. Peter -- Peter Howkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ arcem-devel mailing list arcem-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel
