On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the link. Just to be contrary, I did find it interesting. > Allowing for your obvious bias :-) what do you think is the best smartphone > type platform for casual development in a sort of pythony / flossy / linuxy > way? Is there anything out there that lets Maemo is the most "traditional" Linux system, in that it uses the stuff familiar from desktop (incl. PyQt). Nokia is actually funding the development of PySide, which is an LGPL'd alternative to PyQt. Many of the most popular Maemo programs are written in Python (using PyGtk mostly). Android is a specialized Java sandbox which just happens to have a Linux kernel (it doesn't even use X11). > you develop in PyQt? Android or something from Nokia or FreeRunner? > Anything that has any reasonable chance of running Leo, for example? N900 can't run new versions of Leo anymore, because it has python 2.5. Old versions run, but the experience is pretty bad. The UI would need to be tweaked for the small screen. > Note that I don't use a cell phone, so the phone connectivity part is not > really a consideration. Just looking for something a bit more portable than > my eee pc. I think a 5-7 inch MeeGo tablet is what you'll want, when they become available :-). We need to make a finger optimized Leo ui eventually when these devices start becoming popular... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVIKYF7MOzU -- Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
