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Does anyone have _concreate_ number on speed and size of both ther server and
the binaries?
- -Benjamin Meyer
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 03:57 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> 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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Received on Tue Jan 14 21:02:17 2003
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