Thread: MeeGo is da Man
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buchanmilne is offline buchanmilne
2010-10-27 , 07:56
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
The N9 will run Maemo with a "MeeGo" UX. But the (Maemo)MeeGo UX will not be the UX that is going to be used on real MeeGo phones.
This isn't from the article though ...

Nokia will not encourage people developing for that UX, but will instead encourage developing on Qt and Qt Quick.
Developing for Qt and Qt Quick (and the meego touch framework, which is now available for N900) is developing for the framework on which the Meego and Nokia UX's are built.

This will probably be just fine, but think about all the wasted work: Symbian4 UX wasted, Maemo\MeeGo UX wasted. Strange indeed.
Meego UX will not be wasted. It is mostly the reference theme. Will Nokia really ship a device with the Meego background? With Meego icons? To millions of people who don't know what Meego is? No.

The work before Qt was wasted. The switch to Qt on Symbian and Meego means less waste in future, but highlights the waste of different toolkits before Qt.

The more interesting part of the article is 400 Microsoft engineers developing on Qt for Office on Symbian. Will Office come to Meego too then? What does that mean for FreOffice?