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Palm OS Spinoff

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-move dept.

iCharles writes "According to this SEC filing per this Palm Infocenter story, it would appear that Palm is spinning off its OS devision. I'm a Handspring user, so it sounds quite interesting to me."

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  1. Re:KDE/Qt Embedded won't fly on Linux handhelds by mj6798 · · Score: 5, Informative
    1) When was the last time your manager needed X11 remote display capabilities?

    Remote display is extremely useful for developing software for the handheld and for debugging it. Also, a 200MHz handheld is a powerful machine--with X11, you can use it like a desktop and with desktop applications running on it when you connect it to a network.

    2) Why the need for different toolkits?

    Because there are already lots of handheld applications written for toolkits other than Qt. Face it, the world isn't going to switch its vertical application development to Qt just because some people think it would be nice.

    On a PDA, a single, integrated, interface is the way to go.

    If you think "consumer market", perhaps. But Linux PDAs are for vertical apps, and the cost and success of vertical apps is driven by ease of development and porting among platforms, not by some nebulous notions of appearance. Multiple toolkits are a reality in that market.

    Linux programmers need to start programming apps for 320x240 displays, and QT/Embedded sounds like a good place to start.

    FLTK and Java are already much more widely used than Qt/Embedded, and they don't cost anything.