Was wondering about this as well. A fully opengles accelerated shell layer to replace hildon and most of the osso apps, dialer, media player, contacts mmmm.

Or at least a modified port of the Meego shell over to Maemo.

Anyhow, if people can make it for Symbian, which is significantly less flexible then Maemo, people can make it for Maemo, the question largely being who has the patience and preseverence to do the job.

Shell coding (or even simple outer layer UI coding) is no easy job after all.