Thread: Are we seeing a peek to the MeeGo desktop interface next week?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-04-09 , 10:22
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#18
Originally Posted by johnel View Post
Can I assume that the current MeeGo release for the n900 has a fairly complete set of core-components and most stuff that will underpin the GUI is already present?
Correct, these core components are provided by Qt.

1) If that is the case then MeeGo "desktop" gui (due in April) can be installed on the current n900 MeeGo installation?

2) Can the Meego Mobile gui be installed onto the n900 MeeGo installation (e.g. an app that allows you to make phone calls)?
Technically yes, but it's anybody's guess just how useable will these os-chimeras be on the N900 in real life. The most difficult will be with the phone part, as it's a closed-driver thing and without any documentation I know of. Nokia DID provide a separate image with WiFi/BT drivers for the initial code-dump, but AFAIK the GSM stuff is still missing.

3) Is Nokia's version of Mobile gui totally seperate or does this just mean Nokia have developed additional components?
This is pretty much unknown ATM. As it's relatively easy to make new GUIs with Qt, I'd expect significant differences (as they said a while back that it's the UX layer where they expect the most vendor customization), especially in components that are closed source (say, Media Player ? Was closed in all previous releases, we have yet to see its status in Harmattan)
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