Thread: Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
yes, it is about the apps. There are 500+ Maemo 4 apps. As much as people have investments in the N8x0 devices, aren't there as much if not more investments in the Maemo 4 software? [...] stskeeps can work on the n8x0 h/w adaption layer, but shouldn't someone also work on the "Maemo API adaption" layer?
Have fun :-)

First thoughts are that you - or the person found - could investigate rebuilding, and repackaging, the diablo libhildon (and other libraries) so that they run on MeeGo, possibly alongside any libhildon that MeeGo may ship (or have available).

It might not even be too technical; largely packaging and minor Gtk tweaks/patches.

If you can put together a compelling argument, I'd be happy to have the council take it to Nokia. Although it'd be a hardsell to get them to sponsor someone for it IMHO. It's also predicated on the adaption layer actually getting a workable MeeGo base on the N8x0. If not, being able to run diablo apps on MeeGo's not going to be much use.

However, given MeeGo is a "first class distro" it will have apps written for it (especially given the new Qt SDKs), whereas Mer never got to the point where anyone really considered writing an app "for Mer". If you want to run diablo apps, run diablo.
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