Re: QT GUI for gnokii and more

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Radovan,

On 6/1/05, radofan <address@hidden> wrote:
> is there some new documentation concerning libgnokii API or is
> still necessary to work through all documentation of gnokii?

I'm afraid no new documentation was created recently. But see below.

> To be honest I am considering wheather to use libgnokii or
> support only AT compatible phones.
> If you have any suggestions and/or advices about making GUI for
> libgnokii please let me know.

I would advice to make it two layer -- a daemon that communicates with
the phone and the GUI itself. They should communicate with each other
using some well known protocol (DBUS?). That will allow also other
applications (like Kontact, that would need patching in such case) to
communicate with the phone at the same time.

> I am about to develop application using QT for use with cell phones
> and GSM modems (sms, calls, calendar, etc.) I know there is a lot of
> duplicity (Xgnokii and more GUI applications exist), but I will
> implement some new features (mainly ToDo list based on time and
> location - determined by phone, initiation of data calls with
> monitoring). Intended platform is handheld Sharp Zaurus and of
> course linux PCs and I plan to use KDE's Kontact for managing
> contacts and more hence the choice of QT.

I'm willing to help you. Mainly in two areas (beacause my GUI skills
sucks). Help/implement the daemon that communicates with the phone.
Write the developer documentation -- just tell me with which
functionality you would like to start. I will prepare some general
documentation, but then I'd like to documentate the interface to the
functional areas.

take care,
pkot
-- 
Pawel Kot
http://www.gnokii.org/