Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1382 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Yes, I also hope they change their minds with Qt. I filed a complain to 
> > > Nokia, 
> > > unfortunately I did not find a corresponding site at the .com based Nokia 
> > > site, 
> > QT is a user interface and has absolutely nothing to do with SyncML
> > which is a protocol...
> Of course. What I meant was that, now that Nokia have bought Trolltech
> (the makers of the Qt cross-platform tool kit), perhaps Nokia will use
> Qt to make a PC client application for their phones that will run
> everywhere QT does. 

If your inferring that as a goal because they purchased Trolltech I
think it is a massive leap.  Nokia is an enormous organization,  many
parts of Nokia probably don't even know that they purchased Trolltech
and certainly don't know why.

> And that is quite a few places. As Nokia make the
> server side of the SyncML in question (it is in their phone), they would
> be in a fantastic position to know how to make a client. And they could
> now make one client that runs on all platforms.

There is little profit motive to develop a client [which is a very
expensive thing to do, especially a cross-platform client - there are
many cross platform issues beyond the UI level, particularly when it
comes to communicating with devices].

If the phone/device wants a SyncML service have you considered just
installing one on your workstation/desktop.  Funambol is a SyncML server
and it is free and Open Source.

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