-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mattias Schlenker wrote: > Wooky wrote: > >> I also have great expectations for N770. It seems that it can achieve >> an important milestone in Linux-based PDAs, and suceed where others >> have failed. While I disliked the marketing of the N770 as a simple >> "internet tablet" at first, since it was obvius that it had the >> potential to be much more than that, it actually makes sense. It can >> have a greater penetration in the not-so-Linux-inclined market that >> way, specially considering there is nothing remotely similar with its >> intended price tag. >> I had a friend who had a Zaurus once, and he complained (of lack) of >> available software, compared to Palm and PocketPC devices, and >> expressed his fear that might too happen to the N770. I pointed him >> some of the projects already ported and showed how easy was to port >> existing GTK+ apps to Maemo. Since we live in Brasil, I was specially >> happy with the work of the guys from INdT (which I had never heard of >> till now) with Python in Maemo. >> It's time there was a developer, open-source friendly PDA in the >> market. I sure hope the N770 will be a thundering success - and I also >> hope it will be available here in Brasil as well. >> >> > > There are many apps for the Zaurus, either for Qtopia (original, > partially closed environment), QPE (free fork) or GPE (X11, GTK and > matchbox based alternative). But Trolltech made a significant mistake by > just opening Qtopia and not "taking the community by the hand". That > provoked the fork QPE and thus less people are developing for Qtopia > then for QPE and GPE. Also, projects just run by the community tend to > concentrate on developers as customers which results in software that > just targets "power users", sysadmins and programmers. QPE and GPE are > out of reach for normal users since it requires flashing the device. > Another point is that many of the free programs lack polishing. Backing > by a large company with significant (wo)manpower could be solution for > this problem, either by offering bounties as Novell does or by helping > with the development.
You're confusing distro (OpenZaurus) and environment (Opie or GPE), but that doesn't matter much for the point that QT/e and sharp suck. > > I assume that Nokia did precise analysis on the points of failure of the > Zaurus' acceptance. A fork of Maemo would be absolutely > counterproductive for both sides: developers focusing on the free fork > would end up with unpolished applications and Nokia would have to invest > (wo)manpower in backporting apps from the forked environment to satisfy > customers. Thus integrating the community early (and pampering us with > developer devices) is a clever move. See how nice GPE integrates into maemo: http://oss.kernelconcepts.de/maemo/ regards, Koen > > > Regards, > Mattias > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCw8YGMkyGM64RGpERAo5tAJ0fU0pILBp1SMdk+B4ywDfX7KtR/gCfUKau ZE6MgKHVi7BAVrX90ExICn4= =eHlM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
