Re: Re: [QPE-devel] Feedback for QPE on X11

X can also be a compatibility API. Lots of X apps out there, lots of
people know how to use X base toolkits.
--Kervin

> I think that the only real major reason for having X11 on the system
> would be to put the applications on another machine and run them over
> the network. If for example you could run qvfb in X11 and remotly
> host qpe with say every single applications out there that would be a
> very cool thing, but it would look exactly like the normal qpe.
>
> -Benjamin Meyer
>
> On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:00 pm, Lawler, Tom wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> A while back I put a preliminary feed of QPE packages for X11 at
>> http://www.handhelds.org/feeds/qpe-x to allow people to run QPE
>> applications on top of X11 using the standard Qt/X11 library (see the
>> INSTALL file at this URL). I wanted to get some feedback on the
>> extent people are using it, its usability under X, etc. The purpose
>> behind QPE/X is to see if it is feasible to use X as the common
>> windowing system for Linux on iPAQ for all applications, as opposed to
>> one set of X based apps and a separate set of frame buffer based apps
>> using QWS. The important thing to remember is that I made no code
>> changes (only #ifdef's) to get the QPE apps running under X11, so
>> extensive changes to QPE are not required for this to work. Before
>> continuing on to the next step of smoothing some rough edges, I wanted
>> to gauge people's interest in using and/or working on QPE/X. What do
>> you think? Send your response to the appropriate mailing list(s).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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