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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
About Hancom: nevermind, it appears to be based on QT, which, I think, on the 770 equates to installing large libraries and slow performance.
Feel free to correct me...
Thanks, you saved me some tedious quoting of that previous big post :-)

You are right. The Zaurus GUI (Qtopia) is built on a scaled-down version of Trolltech's Qt graphic library, which is the foundation of the desktop environment KDE. While Nokia's is built on a scaled-down version of GTK, which is the low-level roots of desktop Gnome. It is hard to be further apart in the Linux world -- not quite as bad as running a Windows app on an Intel Mac, but still.

So porting the Hancom apps to run properly on the tablet would be quite some task (not to mention proper Hildon integration such as menus, full screen, task bar, hardware keys...). And I'd rather not think of running it 'as is' on a thick cushion of compatibility libs, even if such existed :-)