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authorJan-Arve Sæther <jan-arve.saether@nokia.com>2009-11-19 09:40:11 (GMT)
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Merge branch '4.6' of git@scm.dev.troll.no:qt/oslo-staging-2 into 4.6
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/platforms/platform-notes.qdoc103
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/platforms/symbian-support.qdoc135
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diff --git a/doc/src/platforms/platform-notes.qdoc b/doc/src/platforms/platform-notes.qdoc
index 9896b08..68015a6 100644
--- a/doc/src/platforms/platform-notes.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/platforms/platform-notes.qdoc
@@ -406,17 +406,102 @@
\page platform-notes-symbian.html
\title Platform Notes - Symbian
\contentspage Platform Notes
+ \ingroup platform-specific
+ \brief Information about the state of support for the Symbian platform.
- This page contains information about the Symbian platforms Qt is currently known
- to run on. More information about the combinations of platforms and compilers
- supported by Qt can be found on the \l{Supported Platforms} page.
+ As with any port, the maturity for Qt for Symbian has not yet reached the
+ same level as other established Qt ports. This page documents the current
+ notes for the Symbian port.
+
+ \section1 Source Compatibility
+
+ Qt for Symbian provides the same level of source compatibility guarantee as
+ given for other platforms.  That is, a program which compiles against a given
+ version of Qt for Symbian will also compile against all future versions of the
+ same major release.
+
+ \section1 Binary Compatibility
+
+ As with every supported platform, we will strive to maintain
+ application behavior and binary compatibility throughout the lifetime of
+ the Qt 4.x series. However, due to the fact that Symbian support is newly
+ added in 4.6.0, there is a slight possibility that minor corrections to the
+ application binary interface (ABI) might be required in 4.6.1, in order to
+ ensure compatibility going forward. Any such change will be clearly
+ documented in the release notes for 4.6.1.
+
+ \section1 Supported Devices
+
+ Qt is designed to work on any device which runs one of the following
+ versions of Symbian:
+
+ \table
+ \header \o Symbian Version
+ \row \o S60 3.1
+ \row \o S60 3.2
+ \row \o S60 5.0 (Symbian ^1)
+ \endtable
+
+ Qt has received \l{Tier 1 Platforms}{Tier 1} testing on the following phone models:
+
+ \table
+ \header \o Phone
+ \row \o Nokia 5800
+ \row \o Nokia E71
+ \row \o Nokia E72
+ \row \o Nokia N78
+ \row \o Nokia N95
+ \row \o Nokia N97
+ \row \o Samsung i8910
+ \endtable
+
+ \section1 Supported Functionality
+
+ The following technologies and classes are not currently supported:
+
+ \table
+ \header \o Technology
+ \o Note
+ \row \o QtConcurrent
+ \o Planned for future release.
+ \row \o QtDBus
+ \o No current plans to support this feature.
+ \row \o QtOpenGL ES
+ \o Planned for future release.
+ \row \o Printing support
+ \o No current plans to support this feature.
+ \row \o Qt3Support
+ \o No current plans to support this feature.
+ \endtable
+
+ The following technologies have limited support:
+
+ \table
+ \header \o Technology
+ \o Note
+ \row \o QtSql
+ \o The only driver supported is SQLite.
+ \row \o QtMultimedia
+ \o Although the module itself is supported, no backend for Symbian
+ is currently available. However, there is a backend available
+ for Phonon.
+ \endtable
+
+ \section1 Known Issues
+
+ Known issues can be found by visiting the
+ \l{http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/Qt460KnownIssues}{wiki page} with an
+ up-to-date list of known issues, and the list of bugs can be found by
+ \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG/component/19171}{browsing} the
+ S60 component in Qt's public task tracker, located at
+ \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}.
- For information about mixing exceptions with Symbian leaves,
- see \l{Exception Safety with Symbian}
+ For information about mixing exceptions with Symbian leaves, see
+ \l{Exception Safety with Symbian}.
\section1 Multimedia and Phonon Support
- Qt provides a backend for Qt's multimedia module, Phonon, which supports
+ Qt provides a backend for Qt's Phonon module, which supports
video and sound playback through Symbian's Multimedia Framework, MMF.
In this release the support is experimental. Video playback may have
@@ -429,7 +514,11 @@
In addition, there exists a backend for the Helix framework. However, due
to it not shipping with Qt, its availability depends on the Symbian
- platform in use. If available, it is loaded instead of the MMF plugin.
+ platform in use. If available, it is loaded in preference over the MMF
+ plugin. The Helix plugin requires Symbian signed capabilities. If the
+ application does not have those capabilities, the MMF plugin, if present on
+ the device, will be loaded instead. The capabilities the Helix backend
+ requires are AllFiles, DiskAdmin and MultimediaDD.
*/
diff --git a/doc/src/platforms/supported-platforms.qdoc b/doc/src/platforms/supported-platforms.qdoc
index 2b4792f..560ddfe 100644
--- a/doc/src/platforms/supported-platforms.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/platforms/supported-platforms.qdoc
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
\o gcc (\l{http://www.codesourcery.com/}{Codesourcery version)}
\row \o Windows CE 5.0 (ARMv4i, x86, MIPS)
\o MSVC 2005 WinCE 5.0 Standard (x86, pocket, smart, mipsii)
- \row \o \l {Qt for Symbian} {Symbian (S60 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0)}
+ \row \o Symbian (S60 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0)
\o RVCT, GCCE, WINSCW
\endtable
diff --git a/doc/src/platforms/symbian-support.qdoc b/doc/src/platforms/symbian-support.qdoc
deleted file mode 100644
index 916eda5..0000000
--- a/doc/src/platforms/symbian-support.qdoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-/****************************************************************************
-**
-** Copyright (C) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
-** All rights reserved.
-** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
-**
-** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
-**
-** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
-** No Commercial Usage
-** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed.
-** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions
-** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying
-** this package.
-**
-** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
-** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
-** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software
-** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the
-** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to
-** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements
-** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html.
-**
-** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional
-** rights. These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception
-** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package.
-**
-** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact
-** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com.
-**
-**
-**
-**
-**
-**
-**
-**
-** $QT_END_LICENSE$
-**
-****************************************************************************/
-
-/*!
- \page symbian-support.html
- \title Qt for Symbian
- \ingroup platform-specific
- \brief Information about the state of support for the Symbian platform.
-
- Qt for Symbian is not yet fully on a par with other platforms with respect
- to stability and feature support. This page documents the current shortcomings
- of the Symbian port.
-
- \section1 Source Compatibility
-
- Qt for Symbian provides the same level of source compatibility guarantee as
- given for other platforms.  That is, a program which compiles against a given
- version of Qt for Symbian will also compile against all future versions of the
- same major release.
-
- \section1 Binary Compatibility
-
- As with every supported platform, we will strive to maintain
- application behavior and binary compatibility throughout the lifetime of
- the Qt 4.x series. However, due to the fact that Symbian support is
- newly added in 4.6.0, it is possible that minor corrections to the
- behavior and to the ABI in 4.6.1 will be required in order to ensure
- compatibility going forward. If we break the binary compatiblity promise,
- we will document such changes in the 4.6.1 release.
-
- \section1 Supported Devices
-
- Qt should generally work on any device which runs one of the following
- versions of Symbian:
-
- \table
- \header \o Symbian Version
- \row \o S60 3.1
- \row \o S60 3.2
- \row \o S60 5.0 (Symbian ^1)
- \endtable
-
- Qt has received Tier 1 testing on the following phone models:
-
- \table
- \header \o Phone
- \row \o Nokia 5800
- \row \o Nokia E71
- \row \o Nokia E72
- \row \o Nokia N78
- \row \o Nokia N95
- \row \o Nokia N97
- \row \o Samsung i8910
- \endtable
-
- \section1 Supported Functionality
-
- The following technologies and classes are not currently supported:
-
- \table
- \header \o Technology
- \o Note
- \row \o QtConcurrent
- \o
- \row \o QtDBus
- \o No current plans to support this feature.
- \row \o QtOpenGL
- \o Support for OpenGL ES planned for a future release.
- \row \o Printing support
- \o No current plans to support this feature.
- \row \o Qt3Support
- \o No current plans to support this feature.
- \endtable
-
- The following technologies have limited support:
-
- \table
- \header \o Technology
- \o Note
- \row \o QtSql
- \o The only driver supported is SQLite.
- \row \o QtMultimedia
- \o Although the module itself is supported, no backend for Symbian
- is available. However, there is a backend available for Phonon.
- \endtable
-
- \section1 Known Issues
-
- Known issues can be found by visiting the
- \l{http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/Qt460KnownIssues}{wiki page} with an
- up-to-date list of known issues, and the list of bugs can be found by
- \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG/component/19171}{browsing} the
- S60 component in Qt's public task tracker, located at
- \l{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}{http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/}.
-
-*/
-