I fear you are right but you shouldn't be. A developer should program for the most capable device and both the app and the OS should gracefully degrade the app when the capability doesn't exist. If Meego ends up with a bunch of apps designed to run on non-touch netbooks it will die. If it winds up with a bunch of apps that are not usable without multi-touch, it will die.

If I run a well written Windows program on my OQO, it detects that I'm running in 800x480 and it adjusts while my desktop runs 1280x1024 and, again it adjusts. My OQO has an active digitizer so programs like Acrobat let me do ink annotations while my desktop does not have a digitizer so I don't see that function. This auto-configuration started from the initial install of Win7 which turned off Aero on my OQO because it didn't detect sufficient graphics hardware acceleration.

The point is, I don't have to do anything - no options, no preferences, no configuration, no hacking - to make this happen. That is how a developer should write for Meego. Figure out what device you are running on and adjust all the program's options accordingly.