[Qgis-developer] QGIS on Maemo/Nokia N900

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2009/11/14 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>

Hi all,
>
> I still don't have a mobile phone and am thinking about buying a Linux
> based smartphone now - maybe the Nokia N900 with Maemo.
>
> 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?
>
> Lots of questions - I know. Did someone try to get QGIS running on Maemo?
>

Hi,

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.

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.

Doubts about real usability of QGIS on such a small screen still remain.

If you want to try, there exists a ready-to-use virtual image with all cross
compilation toolchains and maemo simulator already in place.

http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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