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	Jaffa	2009-02-02 , 19:02
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Originally Posted by Benson

Of those, Flash is the only one that needs additional closed components.

Emphasis on "needs".

There are ways to handle the Operator Wizard's role (possibly even ones that aren't broken by default, and can have their database updated when a problem is found with it)

Are there any open source operator connection string databases already available? Would it have to be compiled (in the literal, rather than computing sense)? Is there a Hildonised UI for a front-end?

Presumably the use of Network Manager could help here, especially with the efforts Ubuntu are touting for 3G & Bluetooth access.

several open-source handwriting input methods, and IIRC xvkbd can do completion, so the code's out there.

None of these are cheap though, or trivial to integrate to hildon-input-method.

And unless I'm mistaken, Mer already includes (i.e., steals from existing Maemo install) bme.

...which isn't an option for an end-user flashable image.

You didn't mention it, but I'd put Skype with Flash; those are the two things I can see that have substantial impact on end-users and don't have plausible replacement paths.

I purposely left Skype off as, without investigating it further, figured it should be installable off the network, and doesn't require anything in the FIASCO image.

As interim components until we get some of those worked out, I'm not averse to other things, but I don't see them as very important.

But even interim components need to be in the list, no?

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