GPE: Links/Resources

GPE Wiki

• http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/GpeProject

Related projects

• handhelds.org
  http://handhelds.org
• The Familiar Project
  http://familiar.handhelds.org
• The Matchbox Window Manager
  http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/
• wxEmbedded - wxWidgets support for GPE
  http://www.roebling.de/embedded.html

Related documentation

• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (1.0)
  http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/
• Apple Newton application interface guidelines
  http://www.unna.org/unna/development/documentation/
• Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
  http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/docs/ui/UIGuidelinesTOC.html
• XSETTINGS - configuration of settings for all applications running within a desktop
  http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/xsettings.html
• D-BUS - a system for low-latency, low-overhead, easy to use interprocess communication (IPC)
  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/

Desktop interoperability

GPE programs aim to meet the relevant freedesktop.org standards.

GPE programs should comply with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines where it is appropriate. Some deviations have to be made to deal with peculiarities of the palmtop environment, such as small screens; some of these changes and additions to the GNOME HIG can be found on the GPE HIG Wiki page.

OpenOffice has a project for Document Editing on Small Devices: XMerge.

Here is something that would allow to run wine on ARM: QEMU x86 Emulator.

Icons:

• http://art.gnome.org/art-icons/index.php
• http://developer.ximian.com/themes/icons/
• http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony.php3
• http://developer.ximian.com/themes/icons/ooo-icons.html
• http://www.asturlinux.org/~jsmanrique/gpe/files/Pixmaps_NOIA.tar.gz (icons can be seen on http://www.asturlinux.org/~jsmanrique/gpe/)

SQL schemas

The core storage model for environment-wide data such as PIM data and user preferences is that of a relational database, implemented through the ubiquitous SQL (Structured Query Language).

We started to collect the database layouts used in GPE in the GpeDatabaseScheme development wiki.

Data transfer

GPE will support the vCard and vCal standards for transferring address book and calendar information. We also plan to follow the IETF Calendaring and Scheduling standards. See also the multisync link below.

Interesting applications

• Sam J. Engström has a nice collection
  http://www.samengstrom.com/ipaq/
• SQLite is the database engine library used by some applications and usqld
  http://www.sqlite.org/
• SyncML
  http://www.syncml.org
  SyncML library
  http://libsyncml.sourceforge.net/
• multisync
• PaxAnimas minipredict, psCalc and psPim

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