Re: [Familiar] Re: Re: [Opie] strategic direction

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:16, Jay Sekora wrote:
> ljp writes:
> > Opie (qtopia) was meant to NOT have to run on X.
> > Basically, I think X on pdas is overkill.
>
> Well, the thing about X is that it's client-server. That means that
> when I'm on the subway, I can use the stylus and touch screen, and
> when I'm at my desk, I can use my keyboard and 1600x1200 (at work)
> monitor. I'm sure Qt-embedded is great at what it is designed for,
> but I want to be able to treat my handheld the same way I treat all
> the other hosts I run apps remotely on.

Speaking for myself, when running a laptop (1024x768) or desktop (1280x1024 or
more) I want to also run an all-singing-all-dancing desktop environment such
as KDE 3.1. This requires significantly more RAM and storage than is
possible on an iPaQ at the moment.

Maybe in a few years hardware development will have progressed far enough that
running KDE 3.1 on an iPaQ type device is possible. But at the moment I am
not able to have an iPaQ as my only machine.

It will be handy to use X for testing iPaQ programs, but not for regular use
of such programs. So I think that at the moment X is overkill, and it is of
limited utility.

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