Thread: New release named "chinook"?
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2007-07-01 , 18:52
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Originally Posted by aflegg View Post

It just seems like a few people here are being cryptic about the fact that Chinook will be Maemo 4.0; will use the Hildon Desktop rather than the Hildon Application Framework; that the Hildon Desktop will allow home plugins to be written in Python and that Nokia developers are working on it *right now*; they're working on moving it upstream for use with Ubuntu Mobile etc.; that it can be seen in development in Sardine and so on.

None of these changes in and of themselves should be particularly exciting to end-users, yet the mysticism around the future of Maemo is whipping them up into a frenzy.
So in the next firmware I will be able to make a home applet using python code? that's getting me VERY excited!
I say demonstration videos of this in Sardine on the net, and I couldn't wait to be able to do that for my own tablet. (without having to install all kinds of unstable beta code form Sardine).
I consider myself an end-user and not a developper, I'm not a programmer, but I can write python scripts that do very cool things (on PC, IT and S60). It is very easy, so I think a lot of end-users will be able to start making usefull simple home applets (very much like widgets, but in Python).
Right now I have to start python scripts using a launcher applet, making my own home applets would be VERY cool.