with all due respect abill, and knowing that you have at least some skill in using a keyboard......
you consistently jump at every opportunity to complain and denigrate maemo, meego, nokia and the dev community at large.
i might suggest that, given a nice fresh install of inkscape, the gimp and a text editor, you might be better off spending some of your energy reading the meego ui development guidelines and actually contributing in a positive way to that "meager" UI rather than wasting the earth's oxygen puffing and venting about all that's wrong with it on this forum.

i struggle with a simple "hello world" in C(++) or java but have had no problems tinkering with colour, theming and UI changes on my N900. if a dumb ex-grunt can do it, anyone can.

there's a reason us folk in the "colonies" refer to your lot as bloody whinging poms