Re: [linuxiran] Familiar/OPIE/GPE2 Sync

[Aryan Ameri]

On Monday 12 May 2003 08:39, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:

> With regards to OPIE, it looks pretty impressive. I've shown it to a
> few friends, who are expert in UI design, and they are impressed. All
> applications look very polished, and their behavior is exactly as
> expected. The drawback is that OPIE is not X.

> There is another GUI available on StrongARM (iPAQ included) called
> GPE2. It is a port of X and GTK2/Gnome2. It doesn't look as polished
> as OPIE, and each application behaves in its own way--exactly like a
> real X!! GPE2 has come a long way in a short time, and is very heavy
> development. 

Interesting information, I have always been interested in the progress 
of Linux in the embeded systems. Unfortunately I have never had a PDA 
to play with it. 

You point out that OPIE is not X, well really is X for the embeded 
stuff? Look at it's design, network transparancy all over, and many 
other stuff that are rarely needed for the desktop, and I guess never 
nedded for the embeded market. Face it, X was designed for a 
Server/Terminal enviroment, it has been hacked to heck, but 
(Okay  I am wearing my underwear, and I am expecting to get flamed)
X is inefficent, with today's standards. It is the most inefficent part 
of GNU/Linux. 

Now you mention this GPE2, I never even thought that it would be posible 
to run X on embeded devices. But aside from OPIE and GPE2, have you 
looked at Qtopia? It is a product from TrollTech (maker of the Qt 
toolkit) and it comes on Zaurus by default. As Zaurus also uses a 
StrongARM processor like iPAQ, It would be interesting to give it also 
a try. 

When Zaurus came out, people complained that it doesn't have X, when Mac 
OS X came out, people complained that (by default) it doesn't have X, 
but maybe there is a good reason that these don't have X.

Cheers
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Aryan Ameri