<div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/14 Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I still don't have a mobile phone and am thinking about buying a Linux based smartphone now - maybe the Nokia N900 with Maemo.<br>
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Would QGIS perhaps compile on the N900/Maemo? If yes, would it be usuable at all with respect to processor speed and architecture and the GUI. I understand the N900 has a touch-screen. Would the existing QGIS GUI be usable with a touch-screen which is not as exact as a mouse-pointer? Would the touch-screen events be compatible with mouse-events at all for the QGIS-interface?<br>
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Lots of questions - I know. Did someone try to get QGIS running on Maemo?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I still don't have the N900 but I compiled a few things on the older Nxx models, AFAIK, the N900 has a smaller screen and a new touchscreen, it comes without the stadard toothpick-like pen and the new maemo interface is more like a thumb interface than a pen interface.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I successfully compiled and run the whole KDE system on N800 and given that the processor speed on N900 is much faster, there are good chances that QGIS will run at a decent speed on that new device.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Doubts about real usability of QGIS on such a small screen still remain.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to try, there exists a ready-to-use virtual image with all cross compilation toolchains and maemo simulator already in place.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/" target="_blank">http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/</a></div><br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a><br>
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