Just because it is possible to run X on a palm type device, doesn't mean that it is the most appropriate. You have to ask yourself what are the cost (real and performance) for using it.....
My own personal preference is to make as much resource available to the applications, rather than the 'system'.
Simon Wood
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Mouw [SMTP:J.A.K.Mouw_at_its.tudelft.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 3:37 PM
> To: Jim Gettys
> Cc: mjones_at_trolltech.com; Chester; Jay Carlson; Nils Faerber; Tom_Kirksey_at_ingersoll-rand.com; handhelds_at_handhelds.org; linuxce-devel_at_linuxce.org
> Subject: Re: [Handhelds] Re: [linuxce-devel] Re: [iPAQ] Embedded QT on iPaq?
>
> That's right. The X server used to be too big for a PDAs, but now that
> Jim slimmed it down, using X is a perfect solution. I don't think that
> things like QTE or fb-GTK are a good idea: you need input handling and
> event queues which can be hard to get right. Let us please use X: it's
> proven, it's stable, it's here.
>
> > And giving up what everyone else is doing seems a bit much, given that
> > we aren't so memory constrained on current state of the art PDA's...
>
> If IBM can run X on a watch...
>
>
> Erik
>
Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 08:09:16 EST
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