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Hi
I'm finally posting something I did a long time ago. If someone was watching the Palm WebOS on N900 thread, he'd notice that.

Through trial and error I managed to run some Mojo apps under Chromium. It's not the optimal solution, which would be qtwrt but at least works.

Then I was looking for someone who'd help with this, to use qtwrt instead of sluggish Chromium, but all in vain. Only TransTech joined me, but even then we couldn't do it. So I decided that I'll push what I already did.

Finally I worked out a concept solution which isn't perfect but doesn't suffer from Chromium-caused downsides.

How to set this up:

First of all you need Easy Debian. I told you it's not the optimal solution, didn't I?

After you set up Easy Debian, install Chromium in Easy Debian chroot // concept solution doesn't need all this stuff, but isn't perfect

Code:
apt-get install chromium-browser
Then you need to set the Mojo framework up.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Standard_WebOS_apps

You can download WebOS image from here

Prewebenv provides a symlink in /usr/palm which point to /home/user/palm

Why that way? It's nice to have all the setup done after reflash. You have all the apps saved too.
With it you can install the WebOS apps (preenv games too) by just
Code:
dpkg -x /path/to/ipk/file /
How to run a Mojo app?

After adding the line specified in the wiki, you just need to run
Code:
prewebenv /usr/palm/application/<appname>/index.html
Unfortunately, you need to provide the full path. I don't know a way to modify the arguments yet.

What works not:
  • Chromium is sluggish and laggy
  • Launching an app is really slow
  • You need Easy Debian
  • vkb doesn't work in Chromium.
  • You need to provide full path
  • For Easy Debian you need to modify the index.html // in concept solution it should be removed as the workaround causes the interface to be painted 2 times
  • There's no easy way to make shortcuts
  • EDIT: the concept solution has problems too. Although it reduces the problems of Chromium (lagginess), it has problems with running them.

As you can see, there's a lot to be done. There's a concept solution I found, but it's very imperfect... http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=17

The current team for QtWRT porting is:
  • marmistrz
  • TransTech - he did some QtWRT apps

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Last edited by marmistrz; 2012-07-08 at 20:09.
 

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