Nokia Engineers on KHTML

Rich writes "KDE could soon be making its way into your mobile phone. At aKademy in August David Carson and Deepika Chauhan from Nokia presented the work they've done in integrating KDE components into the latest version of the company's mobile phone software. Philip Rodrigues discusses this work with them on dot.kde.org."

Cool... BUT (there's always a BUT)

[antivoid]

With any luck, there will be some innovation taking place rather than just shoving KDE onto a cellphone. A few things make me wonder:

1. Is this an appropriate GUI system to be using in such memory-deficient devices? I believe we we find out soon...

2. What bothers me about an X system is that it is targetted at client-server, and the resultant code bloat may prove hazardous to an embedded implementation. I do however that an open-source-based solution should be used (why re-invent the wheel).

3. What sort of licensing and commercial rights do a company possess, given the fact that they are using open-source commercially?

4. Can I still make phone calls of this phone? :)

What of the 770?

[Anonymous Coward]

don't they already have their own GTK+ based gui and Webcore based browser? I seem to recall them releasing the sources some time ago.

Small RAM footprint

[Mostly a lurker]

Was anyone else surprised that the key reason for using KDE components was the small footprint of the rendering engine? I had not considered KDE terrible in this regard, but I am shocked that it is considered superior to the alternatives.

Re:What of the 770?

[Anonymous Coward]

They did a port of KHTML, but never used it. The 770 runs a customized build of Opera.