Looks like Abiword and Gnumeric have been ported to the Nokia 770. Let’s hope that the device that I won at GUADEC will arrive soon so that we can start porting GIMP.
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June 17th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
You don’t have to wait for the device to start porting, you can do pretty much everything but hardware specific issues in maemo. And I think there’s quite a bit of porting to do in the UI department. Context menus aren’t as handy as with mouse, window management is quite limited – one window at a time. I’d be curious to know what kind of port you have in mind.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
The idea is to use the core gimp and build an alternative UI on top of this using from the existing widgets and actions. But I am afraid I won’t be motivated enough to start this until I hold the device in my hands.
June 23rd, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Do you expect this *Portable Image Manipulation Program* to be directly part of the codebase, like maybe a different compile target or do you expect to be a very seperate and distinctive application specially developed for tablets and handhelds?
June 24th, 2005 at 2:20 am
Hehe, PIMP is a nice codename for it
Or let’s call it Project P.
I would actually consider to develop this inside the GIMP code base since I expect that we will need to do some changes to our core widgets and we would most probably also need to do some more virtualization to make this frontend work. But these changes can only do good. Perhaps it should go into a branch initially but at some point I’d like to see it merged.
June 24th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
PAN was known as the Pimp Ass Newsreader but they eventually moved away from the contraversial name and now Pan barely makes any reference to its old name.
Project P is certainly a safer name, if anyone asks you can claim it stands for Photo.
I thought you might prefer something more classical and dignified and perhaps to name your project after a famous German Artist (Durer? Holbein?…) but I know if it were me I’d name it something obvious like Photo/Picture, or possibly something which else which suggests a compact graphics program which is slim and powerful but designer for use on Tablet or palmtop devices. (Wonder who owns the Eazel trademark these days?)
Having said all that the safest and easiest thing is to leave the name alone and keep it as much like the GIMP as possible.
September 7th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
I’m wondering if (A) you got the device you won, and (B) if you’ve progressed at all in porting GIMP.
I hope the answer is yes in both cases.
Roger
September 8th, 2005 at 1:17 am
The device hasn’t shipped yet. So I am sorry that the answer is still no to both questions.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
Gimp for the 770 — still on hold
No progress on the GIMP port, which is waiting for a physical device to spur things on
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October 18th, 2005 at 5:47 am
The killer app
There’s a killer app for the Nokia 770 waiting in the wings, and hardly anyone is acknowledging it.
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October 18th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Tommi Komulainen says developer devices are beginning to ship for the Nokia 770, at least in Europe.
Hope you will let us know when you get yours and how the port goes.
November 29th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
Is the Nokia 770 underpowered?
Some specs on the Nokia 770 are underwhelming — more memory, bigger CPU come to mind — but you know what? It’s actually very fast for everything I do. It’s not really underpowered at all.
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