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KDE4 on N800?
Sun, 2010-08-01 16:07 — odysseus
A mate of mine has an N800 that he no longer wants, so I thought I would try put KDE4 on it and play with the new mobile plasma stuff. After installing scratchbox and a bit of futzing around I've figured out OS2008 Diablo only has packages for Qt 4.5, so I can't compile SC4.5 or SC4.4, and even SC4.3 would require manually upgrading a whole bunch of other dependencies. Even if I tried to build my own Qt 4.6 it's not clear what Qt branch I should be using, or even if it would work. Before I waste any more time, has anyone else actually tried to do this lately, or has everyone just switched to the N900? Is there a convenient repo I can just add? Or would I be better off trying Easy Debian or some other solution?
TIA :-)
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MeeGo as base
What about using MeeGo as the base for this effort. There seems to be a lot of interest in this there as seen on the MeeGo forum: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=317
Good link
Ah, I had been wondering about using MeeGo seeing as Mer had shut up shop. Unfortunately that effort still looks a little unready for daily use, quite a few basic things don't work yet. but it will be something to keep an eye on, once they release M0 with an easy installer I'll jump in with both feet.
Use the builds from this Planet Post:
It seems that Harald Fernengel has already made builds for QT 4.7:
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/07/12/qt-47-for-the-n900-news/
I hope this is what you were looking for.
Unfortunately those are for
Unfortunately those are for Maemo 5, the N800 is stuck at Maemo 4.
N810 too slow
We've been able to make Plasma run on the N810, but it was not a lot of fun. It was very slow to start, and would get killed at random points (sometimes at startup). That was with Plasma 4.2, so it might well run a lot better now.
My experience says though, that the hardware is just too weak to make sensible development possible, especially since there doesn't even seem to be a proper accelerated Free video driver for it available.