Alexander Mueller wrote: > Uah, having to run an xserver just for an app being able to run on > windows sounds just terrible to me. There are so many cross platform GUI > frameworks out there, so why not chose one of these? > Just think of the xserver as a "windows compatibility layer" Macs and linux PCs already have the xserver. An xserver is not such a big piece of software to run on windows either. It certainly isn't a big piece of linux - or it wouldn't fit on a phone too small to run windows.
I think the ideal way is to run the settings/config/sms apps on the phone itself. That way, you can do stuff on the phone (config, send sms, etc.) even without a pc. The pc becomes mostly a convenience thing - run the same apps but on a much bigger screen with a real keyboard and mouse. Cut & paste between phone apps and pc apps. I.e. paste and URL into a sms and vice-versa. A few things, such a data synchronization with a pc app may need some software to run on the pc. But that sort of thing should be kept to a minimum. When stuff runs on the phone, there will be only one place to update software. So when MMS gets implemented on the phone, you immediately have that capability from the PC too. No waiting for the "pc-phone app" to catch up! This is what the X protocol is all about - run the software on the machine that makes sense (i.e. the one that actually have gsm hw) and display it on the machine that has the best display (the pc). It already works very well - using cable or using wifi. Want to see the phone filesystem from the pc? The phone can already pretend to be a usb disk. Or you can run samba on it. Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
