Re: [iPAQ] qt/embedded + X

From: Warwick Allison <warwick.a.t.trolltech.com>
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 03:00:47 EST

On Friday 16 March 2001 4:40am, Douglas S. J. De Couto wrote:
> here's an idea: can we make it so that qpe runs under qt/embedded, but
> also have X available on the framebuffer device. e.g. linux desktops
> have virtual consoles, even with x running on the framebuffer. can we
> do that? this would keep the qpe stuff running nice, including their
> window mgr with embedded ok buttons etc, while allowing people to use
> any X apps they might need.

It's probably a big waste of memory. If you want QPE on X11, just port it.
There isn't much to it - in fact it's been done partially a few times
already. The main extra thing you'll need is a QCOP server (just snarf code
from Qt/Embedded, it's GPLed), since QPE applications send DCOP-like messages
to each other (eg. they get a message when the timezone changes).

Anonymous CVS is at cvs.qpe.sourceforge.net. You can send patches to the
QPE-devel mailinglist.

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Warwick
Received on Fri Mar 16 00:04:44 2001

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