Gour, As per our discussion on irc (I'm mogra, btw) if you use Qt and design to be able to use the app at 1024x600, you should be able to compile for both. And then even any Linux that supports Qt and even Mac/ Windows if you aren't doing OS specific low level operations. ;)
On Nov 15, 2009, at 3:40, Gour <g...@gour-nitai.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > In last days I'm researching the Net to find out what would be the > best > platform to focus on for developing a 'lite' version of desktop app > meant to be run on devices like Nokia N900 - I'm not sure if this > device falls in the category of MID or smart-phones. > > Since I plan to use Haskell with GTK+ bindings for desktop app, I'd > like to stay with GTK+ libs and to minimise the effort of porting the > app for MID/smart-phone. > > The N900 runs on Maemo-5 which uses Hildon framework, but it is > already > known that Harmattan will be based on Qt and the Hildon will be > 'community-supported' as I'm told from the people working on Mer. > > It certainly means it will have some more life, but I'm curious what > is > the future of further development of Hildon (aka: GTK-based) > framework? > > The natural alternative to Maemo/Hildon(Mer) is, of course, Moblin, > but > based on the info I've collected so far, it i questionable if > Intel will be able to provide smart-phone based on Moorestown platform > or we'll have to wait for its Medfield successor in order to have CPU > with appropriate power-consumption required for MDI/smart-phones? > > Moblin Core doc* says: "Moblin Core is built on the GNOME Mobile > platform...", and "Moblin Core will follow the GNOME Mobile 6 month > release cycle (starting with 2.26 in 2009) staying in sync, retaining > compatibility and contributing improvements back to the GNOME Mobile > and Desktop platforms." so I wonder if one wants to develop with GTK+, > does it mean that Moblin is better option providing, at least, the > same > support for both GTK & Qt which, I believe, is not the case with > Nokia's Maemo? > > I'd be also very thankful if someone familiar with both Moblin & Maemo > can share how those two platform compare (in general) in regard to the > effort to port desktop app to the MDI/smart-phone companion? > > *(http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/moblin-core > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > > Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > dev@moblin.org > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org > once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
