Opie2 Or Opie Ii (with Link)

[ernestus]

Anyone has any news about it?
have a look at:
http://opie.home.linuxtogo.org/

Thanks.
E

[ernestus]

Hmm, I expand this.
It turns out trolltech has liberated Qtopia 4.2
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/downloa...opia-source-gpl
and somebody has just started Opie2...
Does anyone have mor information?

Thanks all.
E

[speculatrix]

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=22022&hl=

[chrisl]

The screenshots on the site are cool. I kinda have always liked the look and feel of qtopia, but this really looks good! I certainly this gets into a ROM image.

Chris--

[lpotter]

The screenshots on the site are cool. I kinda have always liked the look and feel of qtopia, but this really looks good! I certainly this gets into a ROM image.

Chris--
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=151979\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

This would require participation of developers and someone to add OpieII to openembedded.

[ofels]

The screenshots on the site are cool. I kinda have always liked the look and feel of qtopia, but this really looks good! I certainly this gets into a ROM image.

Chris--
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=151979\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

This would require participation of developers and someone to add OpieII to openembedded.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=151980\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Which in turn would require why people (developers and users) would have to completely drop their OpieI experience and start from scratch.

Oliver

[ernestus]

Okay, after downloading compiling and installing the thing, my feelings are quite contradictory. In one side it's very slick and I think faster than Opie, but in the other side, and this is disappointing, transforms my SLC3200  in a kind of smartphone that cannot make phone calls!

I had a look at their configurator and looks like the only available profile is for mobile phones... I think I will await till there is a PDA profile.

Cheers.
E

[speculatrix]

Okay, after downloading compiling and installing the thing, my feelings are quite contradictory. In one side it's very slick and I think faster than Opie, but in the other side, and this is disappointing, transforms my SLC3200  in a kind of smartphone that cannot make phone calls!

I had a look at their configurator and looks like the only available profile is for mobile phones... I think I will await till there is a PDA profile.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152356\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

can you clarify what you mean by install? Did you flash to a basic OZ image and then install the qtopia4 stuff, or did you roll an entire ROM and flash to that?

thanks

[ernestus]

No reflashing, I just cross compiled it in my PC, copied the result across to my slc3200 hard drive (I targeted /opt/qtopia4). Finally I hacked/tweaked the environment to make it runnable in a quick a dirty way (full of warnings and so, I am not sure why some libraries don't load, but others is because whatever hardware is not present, I think, or maybe my cross compiling environment is different of the one used in OZ... don't know).

Not very elegant, believe me, but to be honest I prefer the old GUI, this one is definetelly aimed to phones, not PDAS.

The real thing is having a modern Qt version, so many apps can be ported to Qtopia (I am thinking in embedded konqueror --I know somebody has ported a recent version to Qt2-- and some others).

I hope there is a proper PDA profile soon.

E

[ofels]

I hope there is a proper PDA profile soon.

[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152396\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Alternatively one coul dthink about helping the Opie I guys porting it to Qt4 which would have the same effect with a proper "PDA profile".

Oliver

[ernestus]

I hope there is a proper PDA profile soon.

[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152396\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Alternatively one coul dthink about helping the Opie I guys porting it to Qt4 which would have the same effect with a proper "PDA profile".

Oliver
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152406\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Don't know really. I am talking about the Opie II SVN tree, this is what they have. I couldn't find anywhere they were going to port the old environment forward, I would like to know their plans... any opie developer here?

But it's my humble opinion that is better to synergy with Trolltech (as KDE does) instead of fork from it far away. And even you have to think there is not as many Opie developers as KDE has. Qtopia phones can benefit from Opie apps and Opie PDAs could benefit phones apps as well, all people happy and dancing.

Maybe Trolltech has a PDA profile/interface in their pipeline, do they, Lorne?

Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.

Thanks all.

[ofels]

I hope there is a proper PDA profile soon.

[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152396\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Alternatively one coul dthink about helping the Opie I guys porting it to Qt4 which would have the same effect with a proper "PDA profile".

Oliver
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152406\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Don't know really. I am talking about the Opie II SVN tree, this is what they have. I couldn't find anywhere they were going to port the old environment forward, I would like to know their plans... any opie developer here?

I have been contributing to and being part of the Opie project since its beginning, though I have quit a while ago.
The OpieII tree has nothing to do with Opie I except its name and its origin.

But it's my humble opinion that is better to synergy with Trolltech (as KDE does) instead of fork from it far away. And even you have to think there is not as many Opie developers as KDE has. Qtopia phones can benefit from Opie apps and Opie PDAs could benefit phones apps as well, all people happy and dancing.

The reason why Opie(I) had been forked once was because it was not possible to get community control over Qtopia. TrollTech owns it and any improvements one would like to see to be done must make ther way through the the TT processes. There is nothing wrong with that except that part of this process is that TT is the the only one who decides what is an improvement worth including or not and that due to the dual licensing scheme the developer of the code in question gives up all his rights on his intellectual property and transfers them to TT.
There had been several dicussions and meeting with the TT management and developers but none of those solved this issue.
An issue which remains even with Opie II.
For a developer this is disappointing because the chances that his work is rejected by TT is high.
TT is a company with profit in mind so the rules are sometimes contradictory to the
pure open source approach.

Maybe Trolltech has a PDA profile/interface in their pipeline, do they, Lorne?

Personally I doubt this. To have a PDA profile in the pipeline TT needs a potential customer for a Linux PDA. I have not seen arising such one lately, instead the phone/smart phone market is increased a lot.
What are requestin is something to keep your Z alive but this is propably not on the official TT whish list.

Oliver

[ernestus]

Thanks Oliver, your comments were very clarifying.
E

[lpotter]

Don't know really. I am talking about the Opie II SVN tree, this is what they have. I couldn't find anywhere they were going to port the old environment forward, I would like to know their plans... any opie developer here?

But it's my humble opinion that is better to synergy with Trolltech (as KDE does) instead of fork from it far away. And even you have to think there is not as many Opie developers as KDE has. Qtopia phones can benefit from Opie apps and Opie PDAs could benefit phones apps as well, all people happy and dancing.

Maybe Trolltech has a PDA profile/interface in their pipeline, do they, Lorne?

Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.

Thanks all.

Porting of Opie 1 to Qt 4 is probably not going to happen. There are a great many changes involved and would require many man hours which we do not have. It would be easier to rewrite it. Which is why OpieII exists.

OpieII can be used on a PDA, there really isn't a 'phone' profile, or 'pda' profile.

[lpotter]

I have been contributing to and being part of the Opie project since its beginning, though I have quit a while ago.
The OpieII tree has nothing to do with Opie I except its name and its origin.

and a few developers.

The reason why Opie(I) had been forked once was because it was not possible to get community control over Qtopia. TrollTech owns it and any improvements one would like to see to be done must make ther way through the the TT processes. There is nothing wrong with that except that part of this process is that TT is the the only one who decides what is an improvement worth including or not and that due to the dual licensing scheme the developer of the code in question gives up all his rights on his intellectual property and transfers them to TT.
There had been several dicussions and meeting with the TT management and developers but none of those solved this issue.
An issue which remains even with Opie II.
For a developer this is disappointing because the chances that his work is rejected by TT is high.
TT is a company with profit in mind so the rules are sometimes contradictory to the
pure open source approach.

Qtopia is "pure" open source, just no community development, which is why OpieII was started. Same reason as why Opie 1 was started.

Personally I doubt this. To have a PDA profile in the pipeline TT needs a potential customer for a Linux PDA. I have not seen arising such one lately, instead the phone/smart phone market is increased a lot.
What are requestin is something to keep your Z alive but this is propably not on the official TT whish list.

OpieII/Qtopia 4 can be used on any device. There is no difference between the phone profile, and a pda profile.

I have been working on Qtopia 4/OpieII for Zaurus, but my time is stretched thin, especially having a young son who does not allow me to have much time to myself. Development of this should increase in the coming months, as I am changing to Software Engineer in the hardware group, instead of doing community management/marketing work.