Re: GPE 3.0

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:23, Philippe De Swert wrote:
> Salut Guillaume,
>
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 00:08 +0100, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote:
> >  I am French Engineer in Informatics and I would want to build a start
> >  up to  manufacture mobile phones ( OEM level ). I am currently in
> > discussion with investors.
>
> Good luck!
>
> > We would want to use the GPE environment but we will need to complete it
> > to have a "commercial grade" one.
> >
> > Here are our goals :
> >
> > Finish this :
> >
> > http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GpeThingsTodo
> >
> > Mail : sylpheeds UI to 240*320
>
> I think Florian is already working on a new mail client using tinymail
> which might be more powerful.

Ok

> > +
> >
> > Porting Gpe to use ALSA.
>
> Well in a sense it does not matter what sound system GPE uses, as there
> are very little applications using sound. I believe ALSA support is
> working when it is needed

Yes but we would ant to use this one ( Hand Free ) and make intensive 
multimedia ( MPEG-4 audio ) :

http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/


> > Porting Matchbox to use AIGLX .
>
> Well are you sure you are going to do that stuff on a phone???

Our goal is to outperform this one :

www.nokia.com/n95

We have to play with the biggest players in the field, it's not a joke party.

Moreover, it could be funny to have some GL effects, don't you think so ? :)

>
> > Porting Gpe-mini-browser to use Webkit.
>
> It is either fixing gtk-webcore or porting webkit to GTK+. Once there
> are GTK+ bindings it should be relatively simple to use it on
> gpe-mini-browser and start expanding it.

Ok

> > Mini-Totem with GStreamer Backend ( 320*240 ).
>
> I once have been digging in the totem source code and believe it will be
> faster to write a new mediaplayer with gstreamer that fits on such a
> screen than to actually adapt totem.

Ok

> > We believe that we will be able to speak of GPE 3.0. :)
> >
> > How many people/much time ( full-time developers) are/is needed to
> > success in this enterprise ?
>
> I cannot really answer this, but it sounds like a lot of work, and a lot
> depends on the quality of the people you are going to work with.
>
> > What is the best background they need to have to work on this ? ( C, GTK
> > , Linux ? )
>
> GTK+, GNU/Linux, C and preferable experience with embedded devices and
> ARM architecture.
>
> > It's a million dollars project and the stuff will be released under GPL.
>
> That would be really great :-) Keep us updated.

For sure :). The production plan for the beast is near ready, and I can ensure 
you this is awesome stuff :) ( HSUPA, W-USB, AMOLED display, 256 MB Ram, 8 GB 
LBA-NAND, "print-quality" camera, fingerprint identification ).

That's why we need top-notch quality environment .. :)

 In stock for beginning 2008 ...

> Regards,
>
> Philippe

Thank you very much for your answer Philippe, it was very helpful :).

Best Regards,

		Guillaume