Thread: Perfect time to release Maemo 5.
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2009-07-29 , 08:56
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#49
Originally Posted by daperl View Post
I think page 17 of Kate's presentation alludes to task switching problems that are "Fixed in Fremantle."
That refers to the various applets being dlls and taking down the whole hildon desktop when they crash. As we can see in beta2 statusbar applets are still dlls in Fremantle, but they are loaded into a different process so they can only crash the statusbar. Nothing to do with task switching either.

In the end, I think Maemo has been a bad multi-tasking marriage with the n8x0's. The screen and input freezing I experience regularly would be unacceptable on all other devices/platforms that I use.
As long as you stay within the device's limits it multitasks fine, and it's nice to be able to stretch the limits when you want to (but the old adage about Unix giving you enough rope to hang yourself is still true).
 

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