Apart from well-known editions such as the normal Ubuntu and Kubuntu, the Ubuntu project includes several other variations as well. One of those is Ubuntu Mobile, which targets Mobile Internet Devices and netbooks. While this release currently uses GNOME Mobile, Canonical's David Mandala has stated that they may look at Qt 4.5, which will be released under the LGPL, as a development environment.
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You don't get it, do you?
Qt is one of the few development platforms that is realizing the promise of write once, run in a huge number of platforms. Phones and mobile devices are maturing and their hardware specs are now such that the amount of apps that can be ported and ease of development clearly outweigh some presumed performance gains.
Member since:2007-03-05
"You don't get it, do you?
Qt is one of the few development platforms that is realizing the promise of write once, run in a huge number of platforms. Phones and mobile devices are maturing and their hardware specs are now such that the amount of apps that can be ported and ease of development clearly outweigh some presumed performance gains."
well, the efl run on linux (xlib (with or without xrender extension), xcb (with or without xrender extension), opengl, directfb, fb backends), openbsd and freebsd, opensolaris, mac os x (quartz backend), windows xp (ddraw, d3d, opengl) and windows ce (gdi, ddraw, fb and gapi backends). And someone will work soon on a symbian port). So the number of platform and backend is not that low
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E17 is nice toolkit, but from the point of Ubuntu Mobile, what counts are the existing applications. PIM (akonadi), Browser, Plasma with Google Gadget support, Dolphin, Solid for quickly discovering HW, Qtopia's input methods etc. etc. make it easy to roll out something complete with fairly little effort.
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"Did you notice that the device took nearly 2 minutes to boot up?
That's really quite poor. My Ipod touch takes a good minute and I think that is just ridiculous. 2 minutes is just way way too long"
I have noticed that, but the ipod touch has a proc running at 533 MHz, the freerunner has a proc running at 400 MHz. There is there a big difference. I also don't think that your ipod loads a whole window manager
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* small footprint (e17 itself can run on Treo with 32 MB of RAM)
* very fast (fast on set top box running at 200 MHz)
* beautiful gui (see http://calaos.fr/pub/video/calaos_media_music.ogg for a desktop app or http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-freerunner.avi for e17 on the freerunner)
Okay, that covers the graphical side of things, but what about the rest of the stack? Database access, network communications, HTML rendering, JavaScript processing, and so on.
QT is a lot more than just a graphical toolkit. It is an entire software development framework.
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"Okay, that covers the graphical side of things, but what about the rest of the stack? Database access, network communications, HTML rendering, JavaScript processing, and so on"
* we have a database lib based on a berkely one. nothing more, though
* network communication: we have (sockets, ipc)
* html rendering + javascript : webkit uses our graphic framework (with the help of cairo, though)
* and a lot more, like qt or glib/gtk+
the EFL are not only a set of graphic libraries...
I don't want to troll, that will be my last comment, but please, before stating something about the EFL, inform you a bit
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for mobile software, using the EFL (set of libraries used by enlightenment) is a beter choice:
* small footprint (e17 itself can run on Treo with 32 MB of RAM)
* very fast (fast on set top box running at 200 MHz)
* beautiful gui (see http://calaos.fr/pub/video/calaos_media_music.ogg for a desktop app or http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-freerunner.avi for e17 on the freerunner)