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2011-02-15 , 20:42
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Originally Posted by alcalde View Post
I got yelled at for claiming MeeGo is a UI layer on top of regular Linux. I was told that MeeGo has "layers" that make it MeeGo and that's why Smeegol wasn't MeeGo. I'm assuming that MeeGo's employing a new desktop framework or something (for notifications, data sharing, etc.) and apps will need to take advantage of those libraries to be fully integrated, but I don't know. That's because we haven't seen MeeGo yet. I don't believe any pics of the final smartphone UI (unlike the tablet UI) were ever released.
Well, I won't yell at you for saying that. I don't know what Smeegol is but I think they mean binary compatibility with Meego. If you have the source for the program you can make it run on any linux/x11 distro. But for a binary (possibly proprietary) program to work on both Smeegol and Meego they must use ABI compatible versions of all packages that they are built on. Nowadays most stuff just works but sometimes things break when packages (i.e Qt) are not of the same version. For me Meego could just as well be called Fedora Mobile.