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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Q: What role do you see our community playing regarding the development and perhaps maintenance of QT applications and development tools?
I believe the investment on keeping Qt up to date on the n900 to be the best way to keep our "devices" alive. We need to make sure that whenever Nokia decides to work on Qt4.8 that the n900 will get that too. More important even is to keep the qt mobility "backends" for the n900 alive and kicking.

Just one example of something that the developers in the community could work on: enhancing the qt mobility contacts backend to support "contacts grouping", "custom fields", "field labels" and some other features that Qt Mobility can support but the backend for the n900 can't. We are bound to see "contact front ends" written in Qt (for meego or not), enhancing our backend would allow us to greatly enhance the "phone side" of the n900 by back porting them.

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
Although these QT apps may be eventually targeted for Symbian, MeeGo, or other OS's, it is my understanding that they first will be able to run on our N900's and concievably other Maemo devices.
First, second or last... probably not as important as continuing to be "an easy/viable target" for qt application developers. I am sure that if we had qt4.6 on diablo we would have seen many more applications ported to it. And with meego we will have even more qt applications floating around. The autobuilder will also be critical.

Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I realize I could be way off base here (and it wouldn't be the first time ) however; does anyone else see this as an opportunity for our community to remain viable in the short term and a possibility for the culture and methods that have developed here to evolve in the long term?
If you are, I am right there with you. If we don't believe that there can be a future for maemo after 6 months I can't see much of the point.
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My maemo work:
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For Harmattan:
GeePS - native UI around google maps - GApp - access to optimized mobile "google apps".
Shutdown - shutdown and reboot with one click - QuickCall - one click call, skypeout and google voice integration using dial tones.
WakeOnLan - wake computers on your local network.
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For Maemo/N900:
GApp - access to optimized mobile "google apps". - MobWebMail: browser optimized to access multiple gmail accounts
MyContacts: 75 Contacts on your desktop, ring tones per group and more - GeePS: native front-end for google maps
Macuco2 : web browser to access web sites optimized for the iphone - WakeOnLan: wake up computers on your local network
dbBrowser: Simple application to browse sqlite databases
 

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