As far as I can see MeeGo and the n900 implementation of it will not be stable for some time - and that is before we have any meaningful apps for it (e.g. a media player!)

Maemo is now hamstrung because the improvements needed for some of the apps can never be applied (e.g. closed-source media player).

So where do we go from here?

At present, meego and maemo are mutually exclusive. We only have a "bridge" (QT libs) that will allow limited portability.

The "in-built" n900 maemo apps are showing their age a bit now and need some kind of revision - which is highly unlikely to happen.

I've been using mplayer for many of my video files because I find that the maemo media player does not play them smoothly (Mplayer also supports the most audio formats too). I often switch between symphonie and the n900 media player to play all my media files on my n900.

Luckily I am a software developer and I am toying with the idea of writing my own little frontend for mplayer - something I can use on my n900 and on my Linux PC at home- I know there are others out there but da**it I want to write my own!

What I'm trying to say is that maybe we should take things in a different direction?

Maybe we can replace stuff with our own qt-based apps?

I have no desire to install meego on my n900 because I don't see it having full hardware support in the forseable future.

Not to mention all the kernel and software hacks possible with the n900 and maemo at the moment.

I also do not like the "DRM" layer aspect of meego either!

Maybe we should accept that meego is still a very long way off and I don't think a stable version on a handset will be ready until mid-end of 2011 at the earliest. God knows when for the n900.

Maybe it is time for the community to start replacing the nokia closed-sourced components with our own. When meego is eventually ready we can then "port" these new apps across?