Focus of the project

   Hi,

   I am curious about what the goals of the project are in terms other than
software licensing. I am considering switching from my current army of Palms
to a Linux handheld, but unfortunately it seems that most Linux environments
for handhelds are pretty much just clones of WinCE. I think the PalmOS
approach to user interface and certain aspects of data management is actually
quite well-done and very comfortable in practice. It makes very good use of
screen space in the built-in apps, common operations are quick, and the system
as a whole is very responsive. I'm hoping that if I upgrade to a device with
a high-res color screen and more horsepower that I can find a way to retain
those strengths. I rather suspect that, as simple as a PalmOS-style system
seems, implementing one on top of Linux may be more than I could handle on my
own.

   The GPE page on handhelds.org struck me as being unfocused in terms of
design: like "we're going to implement something that runs on a handheld and
licence it under LGPL" - without saying just how the "something" is expected
to behave. Some of the other stuff (discussing options for lightweight SQL
data storage) seems promising.

---GEC
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Received on Tue Jul 02 2002 - 21:13:34 EDT