Introduction
The GPE Palmtop Environment aims to provide a Free Software GUI environment for palmtop/handheld computers running the GNU/Linux™ operating system. GPE uses the![[WWW]](/moin/handhelds/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
X Window System, and the GTK+-2.6 widget toolkit. GPE is not a single piece of software, but an entire environment of components which make it possible to use your GNU/Linux handheld for standard tasks such as Personal Information Management (PIM). GPE makes it easy for developers to create powerful programs, by giving them the infrastructure they need.
Besides providing core software such as shared libraries, and perhaps more importantly, the GPE environment fixes standards for program interaction, such as SQL, XML, and other data schemas.
GPE is committed to the Open Source idea. All GPE core components are released under GNU licenses, applications using the GPL and shared libraries using the LGPL. Those allow for the most free usability of the GPE system.
Users
Check out the GPE home page for more info: http://gpe.handhelds.org
If you are new to GPE, please read GPENewbie and GPEFAQ.
Mailing list subscription info is at http://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/gpe-list An archive of the 'old' list can be found on gmane.
This shows all GPE packages in the feeds known to ipkgfind.
File bugs: on handhelds.org bugzilla - of course you can add enhancement requests here too.
What do you want to see in GPE? Go to GPEWishlist
GPE goes international: GPEInternationalisation (yes, users can help too!)
The same applies to GpeThemes, some links to new themes in this section would be cool.
See GpeUsageScenarios to see what GPE can do for you
Documentation:
Please see GpeUserDocumentation. Add newly written documentation here. It will get merged into http://gpe.handhelds.org/documentation.phtml from time to time.
Developers
You can find some information about the project and its organisation at the project site . GPE needs a GPERoadmap
File bugs: on handhelds.org bugzilla
See also the list of GpeThingsTodo, it tells you much about what is going on and about what we maybe do in future.
Develop GPE applications on your PC: GpeNativeDevelopment
Here are the dos and don'ts of coding for GPE: GpeHacking. We keep some ideas on the human interface here: GpeHIG (GPE Human Interface Guidelines).
GPEMarketing collects info about presenting GPE to people
GPEReleaseNotes is a collection of various release notes and announcements
See and comment this DataManagementDraft.
Cross compilation environments for building own apps: GpeCrossCompilation
Informations about GPE's synchronization framework: GpeSync
Plans for the new gpe-pim integration: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GPEPimFramework
The GpeHelpSystem explained.
See the list of WellKnownDbTags. Includes GPE-Contacts, GPE-Todo and GPE-Calendar.
Platforms
For GPE on other devices than the iPAQ refer to GpeOnSimPad and GpeOnZaurus
