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2011-03-04 , 08:49
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
As I understand it:

The "hardware adaption" team (lead by stskeeps) are writing backend stuff (e.g. GPS hardware, ability to SMS and make phone calls). Also developing *standard "Meego" UI.

The "Developer Edition" team (lead by Nokia) are writing addiitional UI components to integrate with *standard "Meego" UI and possibly proprietory components too? (e.g. NOT Flash but mapping software).

Can I assume the "Developer Edition" is not a completely new UI stack atop of N900 Meego? If that's the case then "duplication" of standard "Meego" UI is pretty stupid. I hope it is in addition to standard "Meego" UI and developing "Nokia" UI components.

I'm not quite sure what the "boundaries" of the two projects are.



*I mean the Meego UI for "handsets".
"Hardware adaptation" delivers the backend that makes the MeeGo.com platform work properly on N900. IE, drivers, kernels and other boring stuff.

Intel works on MeeGo Handset UX with the intent only of delivering a reference UX for others to finish and built upon. We've (HW adaptation) here and there helped with some contributions on UI side when needed to speed some things up, but it's not our real duty to even touch UI side.

DE takes HW adaptation + MeeGo.com Core + MeeGo.com Handset UX and takes it and makes it usable for daily usage for developers/extreme power users, contributing UI changes back to MeeGo.com Handset UX. DE publishes a "MeeGo.com-based" "product", ie, the DE.

They start with simple but needed basic use cases. http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/HE#Use_cases lists those. The idea is to make them work solidly, well and usable on a daily basis.

Long story short: Make Handset UX not "suck" and be able to use it for those use cases without wanting to throw it out from 6th floor like a Neo Freerunner.

Can it evolve beyond the basic use cases over time? Yes, but let's get the basic stuff working first and well. As an example, I could care less about DLNA working when my phonecalls don't
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