Arora is working with Qt 4.6.2 on Symbian Devices

[Wolfgang]

BUT
you cant use it with the normal ui-files as it is designed for desktop
use.

After a few small changes to some .pro and source files it compiled
successfully and installation went well, too.

For this reason maybe someone wants to work over the gui to get a real
nice browser for symbian?

Regards

Wolfgang

[Benjamin Meyer]

Do you have your changes up anywhere? Anything we should merge into the main branch? What type of ideas did you have to fit the Symbian ui?

-Benjamin Meyer

[Diego Iastrubni]

SCREEN SHOTS MAN!

WE WANT PROOF!  ;-)

[Wolfgang]

Ok, here we go ;-)

Without any modifications
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/Screenshot1.jpg

changed to show full screen size
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/Screenshot2.jpg
the menu
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/Screenshot3.jpg

enough proof?

On 1 Mrz., 09:03, Diego Iastrubni <diegoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SCREEN SHOTS MAN!
>
> WE WANT PROOF!  ;-)
>

[Wolfgang]

The changes i made in a text file
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/arora-symbian-changes.txt
the changed files packed to .tar.gz file
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/arora-symbian-changes.tar.gz

Merge into the main branch? Have a look at the changes. They aren't
very big, but maybe there is a better solution at some points, e.g.
the moc file folder and so on.

I started with a small modification to show full screen size by using
showMaximized() instead of just doing show()
Normally I would suggest to do a complete separated gui for the
Symbian version. Have a look a the screen shots and you'll understand
why.
Some of the functions won't be very important on a mobile and it is
not necessary to have them on the top level.

The screen size of my mobile(Nokia E71) is only 320x240 and on other
devices it should be 240x320.
But many of the new devices have or will have a touch-screen with a
resolution of 640 x 360, which will make it much easier to get it fit
to.

To proof its working I made an installer package and self-signed it.
Maybe someone is interested and wants to have look at it.
BUT i do not guarantee any thing!! It will show up, but you won't be
able to browse or anything else!
I will delete this file in a few days, because the self-signed version
will stop working then.
Furthermore this installer package will connect to the internet to get
the necessary Qt Libraries for Symbian, so you should use a wifi
connection or should have a cheap data connection!!
http://www.w-bremer.de/arora/arora_installer.sis

[Diego Iastrubni]

We need better solutions for such devices... a new UI, the regular does not scale down. :(

[Benjamin Dietrich]

Opera Mini/Mobile has (imho) the perfect UI for such devices :)

(and opera is qt4 <3

[Diego Iastrubni]

OperaMini5 (which KICKS ASS) is not written in Qt4. IMHO, they have a meta engine and a connector to different toolkits (not unlike WebKit...). But OperaMini is not a Qt4 application. Still - it does not mean we cannot... "borrow" some ideas from them!

[Benjamin Dietrich]

Oh, i thought mini/mobile is also qt4 because the desktop browser is qt4 ^^

arora should also suppert something like opera linkt hen, because it is really great to have your bookmarks, history, passwords, etc on every desktop/mobile device you use ;)

[Diego Iastrubni]

Maybe there is an online service we can use for this?

[Benjamin Dietrich]

I would prefer to be able to set up my own, private sync-server for that though. preferably with multi-user support :)