OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18417/GPE_2_8_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:59:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261747 http://osnews.com/thread?261747 I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is: how it relates to the GNOME project and how it differs, what are the companies that contribute to it et cetera. An interview to the development team would help too. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csasso) Comments RE: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261787 http://osnews.com/thread?261787
I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is


GPE is an embedded programming environment. It comes with many application that can be used on PDAs, cell phones and alike.

While GNOME is the GTK based alternative to KDE, GPE is the embedded counterpart (as an alternative to QPE, which is licensed under QPL). Their main differences are (aside from the license): QPE is C++ based while GPE is C and GPE uses full X11 while QPE is based on framebuffer display. Both of them are mature now (yet QPE is now replaced with newer alternatives from trolltech). Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sukru) Comments Doesn't Fix Lousy Subscription Support http://osnews.com/thread?261849 http://osnews.com/thread?261849 i like how GPE Calendar totally ditches a calendar when it gets iCal attributes it doesn't recognize from subscribed calendar. oh wait, no, i don't like that at all.

why can't maemo get a decent calendaring app? (i know, i know, scratch your own itch...) Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jonhohle) Comments RE[2]: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261864 http://osnews.com/thread?261864 Thank you for your answer sukru.

So the situation is:
GNOME GTK
GPE GTK

Is it possible to hack on GPE using a PC, ie without having a PDA?
(I'm not saying it makes sense, just curious to know whether one like me could start contributing coding and testing just his Linux box)

chris Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csasso) Comments RE[2]: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261867 http://osnews.com/thread?261867 QPE, which is licensed under QPL

QPE and it's replacement Qtopia are both GPLv2.0, as are the comunity add-on/distribution Opie. Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morty) Comments What is it again? http://osnews.com/thread?261897 http://osnews.com/thread?261897 ok, it's embeded programming environment.
And that's it?
What's needed to run the applications made by it?
The project has no documentation and no information about hardware and so on.
What hardware is supported? Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shapeshifter) Comments RE[3]: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261903 http://osnews.com/thread?261903 >> Is it possible to hack on GPE using a PC, ie without having a PDA?

For now there are few vmware images ready to run. Find it on the page.

I think GPE 2.8 will soon be avalible as vmware image. If its not already ;) Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (christooss) Comments RE[4]: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261911 http://osnews.com/thread?261911 of course, it's easy

emerge matchbox
you must install matchbox-nest by hand, Xoo or Xnest

download latest gpe svn branch, url on www.gpe.linuxtogo.org

build something from gpe tree
export ld path and pkgconfig

matchbox-nest&
export DISPLAY=:1
and run gpe-*
enjoy ;) Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (univac) Comments RE[5]: I have it not clear in my mind what GPE is http://osnews.com/thread?261979 http://osnews.com/thread?261979 or scratchbox

http://www.scratchbox.org/ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments