Thread: N900 function compared to G1
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mistermix is offline mistermix
2009-10-06 , 14:16
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Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
Its important to keep in mind that in theory MOST programs that run under regular linux can be cross compiled to run under maemo. Thats gives you a heck of a lot of functionality right off the bat
That's definitely "in theory". In practice, a desktop app is going to need a lot of work before it will be a polished, native app.

Just expand on my point above (that there will be some pain between Maemo 5 and 6), Maemo apps will have to be altered to sense vertical vs. horizontal orientation, and most developers will probably want to convert to Qt from GTK, because that's Nokia's direction. Neither of those changes are trivial.