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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Meego (was: Attitude of COOPERATION.)

« on: August 17, 2010, 12:48:37 pm »

Thanks, I think I'm getting it !  

Just a last noob question: do you think it makes sense to put Touch Orbiter on a basic netbook, without a touch UI ?
I'm asking this because MeeGo for Netbooks:
* has a huge potential market, right now: http://wiki.meego.com/Devices
* is an easy target

Real touch devices like MeeGo tablets and phones will be important, but much later

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Meego (was: Attitude of COOPERATION.)

« on: August 17, 2010, 06:27:37 am »

yep, excellent idea !  

But I read in the wiki that the Orbiter software already works for Maemo (= +- MeeGo) and the Nokia N800/N900
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Nokia_N800

Maybe the best option is to wait for MeeGo 1.1 in october: we'll have loads of netbooks, tablets and phones and a mature OS !  
All these devices (even Symbian phones) will be compatible with Qt.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Meego (was: Attitude of COOPERATION.)

« on: August 16, 2010, 09:44:11 am »

The basic idea would be to engage a dialogue with developers interested in Home Automation in the MeeGo Forum.
I certainly couldn't do this: I'm not a programmer and my english is not good enough.  

Like you said, LinuxMCE is a "very large rambling codebase that has truck loads of dependencies and therefore high complexity."
So even if a young developer wants to do "his own thing", that's not a problem, just keep in touch.  

Regards,
Olivier

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Feature requests & roadmap / Meego (was: Attitude of COOPERATION.)

« on: August 16, 2010, 05:21:57 am »

It would be beneficial to LinuxMCE to have a presence on MeeGo, a high-profile project, to attract new developers.
An example: a small-scale project like "MeeGo Home" (Home automation) on a tablet would be very attractive !  

It could be even hosted here, to keep it simple for a newcomer:  
https://projects.forum.nokia.com/home

If we don't do it, someone else will, it's almost a certainty.
It's one of the biggest problems in open source: people reinventing the wheel ...

http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=715
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1010

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Feature requests & roadmap / Meego (was: Attitude of COOPERATION.)

« on: August 15, 2010, 04:04:31 am »

Let me make this very clear,
at this point, there is no indication of where MeeGo will Go.

Hi all,
This is my first post: let me breefly introduce myself:
I live in Brussels (hence my poor english), I'm an economist and have been a Linux fan for years.

back to the discussion:
The MeeGo option looks very good to me:

* backed by the biggest CPU players: Intel and ARM (I hope AMD will join the party)
* backed by Linaro, a big budget Linux tools player (ARM, IBM, Samsung, ST-Erisson, TI)
http://www.linaro.org/why-linaro/
* MeeGo is Linux, 100% open source
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/lp/page/meego
* for developers: Qt, a cross-platform application and UI framework to target desktops, notebooks, netbooks, tablets and phones
http://qt.nokia.com/

* MeeGo for Netbooks 1.1 will be available in october and deployed in the Intel-ecosytem:
 Asus, Acer, MSI, etc. will have MeeGo netbooks and tablets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vv7yFaqxw&feature=player_embedded
* MeeGo for Handsets 1.1 (Nokia high-end phones) will be available in november-december.
 Nokia is by far the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, but the US market and the high-end segment are Nokia's weak points at the moment. MeeGo phones based on the latest and greatest Qualcomm CPUs and playing nice with the US carriers will remedy this anomaly.

MeeGo's website explains it probably better than me: http://meego.com/
One last thing: Windows dominates the desktop, but Linux will rule the mobile world ! 


Hope this helps,
Olivier