[MeeGo-ivi] What comprises IVI?

[Julien Fourgeaud]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Meego has it's own section on the forums, here:
>
> http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/meego-vehicle/
>
> You should take a look.
>
> Nasa


I've had a look there and it seems there is a misunderstanding.
Applications developed in Qt should not need to be recompiled for each
vendor platform.
When a car manufacturer design their own UI/UX, an application designed on
the reference MeeGo-IVI platform will work and will take the specific style
of the car manufacturer.
Works the same with Qt between applications made for the desktop platforms
and running on Windows/OSX and Linux.
>From http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/QtWhitepaper
"*Qt automatically uses the native desktop style for an application’s look
and feel. Qt applications respect user preferences for colors, fonts,
sounds, and other desktop settings."*
It would make sense to adopt the same process in MeeGo, differentiating the
styles based on the usage:
MeeGo-IVI, MeeGo-Handset, MeeGo-Tablet, MeeGo-Netbook styles.
Vendors (car manufacturers) could then modify the default MeeGo-IVI style to
their liking, making sure that the apps would run with their own
Look'n'Feel.

Some more details about the session Rudolf ran at the MeeGo Conference:
http://www.allaboutmeego.com/news/item/12288_MeeGo_Conference_IVI_and_Plegi.php
Was there myself and brought a bit of clarity, even though there is still a
lot of work to do.

Cheers,
Julien.

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