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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: jgraves on February 27, 2004, 09:55:45 pm

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: jgraves on February 27, 2004, 09:55:45 pm

Ok.  I love the X11 ROM.  I love to be able to remote display apps from
my desktop to the Z.   Matchbox is ok after I figured out how to get the
ice icons. (Default is UGLY IMHO).  Got most other stuff running.  I need
to redo the xscreensaver stuff...

Anyway.

My biggest problem with the X11 ROM is that I can\'t find simple PIM apps
that run on it.  Is it just me????  :shock:

Address Book
Calendar
Calculator (xcalc is ok for now)

I\'ve tried to build a few with no success.  Anyone else have any luck with these
basic apps?

Thanks!

-John

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: tcoulon on February 28, 2004, 07:48:44 pm

I\'m currently working on a tcl/tk based Calendar. There are tcl/tk adress books and calculators around.

Thierry

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: Anonymous on February 28, 2004, 11:30:26 pm

Great!!!  I\'ll look at them too and see if I can get them running.  Thanks!

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: ppfundst on March 02, 2004, 10:00:16 am

Hi!

has anybody tried KO/Pi (the port of Korganizer for embedded system) on the pdaX Rom?
I am using this on Cacko\'s QT Rom and it is working great! It could be the solution to all our PIM problems!
Does anybody know what QT version is supported in the pdaX Rom? Is it 3.2 or still 3.1.2 like in the latest cacko\'s rom?

Thanks!

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: Anonymous on March 02, 2004, 11:25:37 am

KoPi is using 2.3 embedded.  I\'m looking at working on it.  But lot\'s of people seem to be.  I might have a go tonight, but I have a feeling I will have to compile the qt libraries as well (should be easy enough anyway).  I\'ve built a solaris sparc cross compiler and as such it doesn\'t always go smoothly when compiling for linux :-).  

Chris

I\'m just hoping that the zaurus clock issue is fixed with the rom soon, otherwise such tools aren\'t that much use, especially alarms :-)

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: ppfundst on March 02, 2004, 11:45:53 am

Just let us know how it goes!

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: Anonymous on March 02, 2004, 11:46:32 pm

The old Agenda VR3 PDA is X11 based, and had some simple PIM applications already built.  Perhaps we can port those to this system, until suitable replacements can be found?

Try http://www.agendawiki.com (http://www.agendawiki.com) or http://www.agendawiki.com/cgi-bin/asr.pl (http://www.agendawiki.com/cgi-bin/asr.pl) for their software repository.  Their stuff is simple, but be nice -- their PDA costs $130 and has 16 MB RAM and 16 MB flash.

--Michael Spencer

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: Anonymous on March 04, 2004, 03:37:32 pm

Quote

Ok. I love the X11 ROM. I love to be able to remote display apps from  
my desktop to the Z. Matchbox is ok after I figured out how to get the  
ice icons. (Default is UGLY IMHO). Got most other stuff running. I need  
to redo the xscreensaver stuff...  

Anyway.  

My biggest problem with the X11 ROM is that I can\'t find simple PIM apps  
that run on it. Is it just me????  

Address Book  
Calendar  
Calculator (xcalc is ok for now)  

I\'ve tried to build a few with no success. Anyone else have any luck with these  
basic apps?  

Thanks!  

-John

I ran into the same problem after installing the Cacko pdaxrom. There was no PIM functionality left in the Zaurus C860. What is the best way to go about this? The following questions:

1. Is it possible to install the Qtopis desktop on the X11 ROM? If so where does one get the feed?

2. Can I still use the \'add/remove program\' functionality with the X11 ROM or do I necessarily have to compile all applications from scratch?

Thanks,
Ashu

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: LordDavon on March 04, 2004, 11:50:33 pm

I am currently porting j-pilot with all of the sync capabilities (hopefully).  This will allow the Z to have a full Palm Desktop style application and allow users to sync their Palm Pilots via the IR port.  The idea for this is that I have found many users still using their Palm Pilots and the Z\'s together.

There are also others that I am working on, but I am waiting for the JavaVM\'s to be tested fully (Some are java based).

As well, I have ported over Python and should have 2 PyQT based PIMs ready soon.

LD

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: doublec on March 05, 2004, 12:04:52 am

The blackdown java VM worked fine on the previous Cacko X11 ROM. Maybe that\'ll work on the pdaxrom as well.

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: ScottYelich on March 05, 2004, 02:11:17 am

java + python/pyqt will give a lot. :-]
/me waits for pyqt.

Scott

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: ppfundst on March 05, 2004, 04:34:53 am

Isn\'t pyqt already ported to the Zaurus?
What about this:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/ (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/)

There is also a great software on this page: it is called \'treeline\' and is even better than hnb.
It would be great if somebody could port treeline to the Zaurus. I contacted the author, but he got not Z...

Title: PIM Apps
Post by: lardman on March 10, 2004, 06:58:36 am

Has anyone made progress on the PIM front?

Whether Ko/Pi or even compiling the Opie apps for X11 use? Are the Qt libs available in the ROM by default or do I need to add them?


Simon