Russell Nelson wrote:
> Marc Baaden writes:
> > >>> Russell Nelson said:
> > >> I notice that everybody thinks that X is too big and/or too slow to
> > >> use with Opie. Nobody actually has any numbers.
> >
> > Well, still without numbers, I make a simple calculation:
> >
> > ipaq+opie: running fine, all I need
> > ipaq+opie+x: nothing added that I need, but unused x in addition => overhead
>
> s/simple/naive/. Opie is presumably smaller when it can use X to do
> its drawing. Otherwise I wouldn't have proposed the idea.
>
No ! - Qt/X11 cannot be user-configured. Our Qt/E version lacks many
classes that are simply not necessary on the iPAQ. Our Qt/E build is
currently ~3.5 MB -- a full Qt/X11 build (and you can't do anything else
with the X11 version) is ~5.5 MB.
Opie was never meant to run on X and you would need a huge amount of
work to port all features (especially the launcher + plugins) to an X
environment. If somebody wants to do it, it's fine with me -- I (and
probably most of the core devels) have currently no interest in porting
Opie (supporting *all* features) to X.
And for all people who don't know Qt internals: Qt/X11 and Qt/E are only
source compatible, but only if you use features that are supported on
both platforms. Opie makes heavy use of Qt/E specific stuff, so a simple
recompile won't help.
cu
Robert 'sandman' Griebl
Received on Thu Jan 16 15:04:46 2003
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