Re: opieII

The same as I told to Lorn:
When I see something in repository, I'll think. But you may start doing it 
now. Come on! Show us an example!


> How many people want to develop for Qt 2.x?? Nevermind does it is X11 or
> Embedded version. From time to time someone new appear with question 'how
> to write application for OPIE' or 'I want to port my app to OPIE' but
> when they hear 'qt 2.x' they go away telling that we are mad and insane
> to use such old library as base.
>
> Developers want qt 3 or qt 4 as base and this is what opieII will give us.
> After trying to use qt/x11 4 I know that I will not write anything for
> qt2 because with qt4 I have much less things to care about. No need to
> learn sqlite API because qt4 take care of it, better XML implementation
> etc..
>
> Then we go to apps, games etc - KDE is moving to qt4 now, they simplified
> their core libs because more and more stuff is used from qt4. I will be
> not suprised when some of KDE games, apps will get easy to build for
> opieII without fetching lot of KDE code.
>
> And I want APPS, GAMES which are MAINTAINED! Not 4 years old crap written
> for first Sharp contest and never changed. I'm tired of QVGA sized stuff,
> several hacked versions of hacked version with so sick buildsystems that
> are easier to rewrite then use.
The same! You want GAMES, APPS coolness, start doing them! Call this army 
of independent developers you see to write them!

> How many of them are maintained? When you are user/developer you do not
> care about it - you do hunt for sources and get it build for own usage.
> But as distro maintainer I care about such thing - if user report bug in
> application who will fix it? Usually no one..
I ususally share the results of my work with the rest of the developers. 
If I see that the app is abandoned but I really need it, I take over the 
control. If you are the distro maintainer - fine, you MUST do your best to 
make developers maintain applications or find other applications. If you 
can't do this, you should do other work.

> I want to look at KDE4 when it will be released. Qt4 needs it to get
> popularity. Then we will look which apps can we get working under opieII.
Lets see, lets see.

> OPIE does not do what I want - it does not allow me to connect to many
> WiFi networks due to lack of WPA support, it lack web browser, lack good
> looking games (I have VGA screens mostly).
Ok, may be OPIE II WILL do it for you. Not sure about this.

> And there is one more thing - opieII will be qt/e 4 but I wonder how much
> work will be needed to make it working with qt/x11 4 :)
No idea.

-- 
Dmitriy
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