RE: [iPAQ] FLTK, NanoX and Microwindows?

Hi *,

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> I would prefer a Linux PDA approach that alomost any PDA could use and X11 is
> for sure not suited for, for example, the Helio. With just 8MB RAM and 2MB Flash
> it will not fit. Nano-X would.

We need to learn to think ahead. This development (Linux on iPaq) is about thinking ahead, and will not be ready for
prime time for at least XY months in any case. If you try to sell 8 MB RAM device in XY months, you will be ...

> You and many others put a lot of work into the X11 version which only a very
> limited number of PDAs can make use of. This will result in at least two Linux
> PDA trees, one for small scale PDAs and one for the bigger ones. Applications
> for typical PDA use are rare enough for Linux, why force this work to be done
> twice?

I fully support the "keep one tree" approach for any Linux software, KDE/GNOME included. But things will be done twice,
if at all, for VERY short time here. 4 yeas ago I was using desktop with 32 MB RAM and 200Mhz CPU...

> Nearly none existing X11 application can be used 1:1 on the iPaq or any other
> Linux PDA. You will have to tailor them to the new screen dimensions (much
> smaller than nowadays screens) or even rewrite them to some extent. So the easy
> porting argument is not fully valid.

This will change very fast as developers see the option of running on PDA platform. This way, they will "adjust". That
way, they would re-write. Never...

> The network transparancy is IMHO not that important for a PDA.

Oooops...? What happened to the "network is computer?"

Yours, Andrej Falout, http://www.falout.com ICQ 7628616
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Received on Mon Oct 23 15:03:13 2000