Thread: Time for an open maemo fork?
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2011-03-06 , 09:58
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
That doesn't seem very day-to-day for the typical user coming from Maemo/Android/Blackberry/iSplat (i*)/etc. Isn't it still only just kind of, sort of, pre-beta still? It doesn't seem quite settled and baked yet, or did I miss some major milestone?
Of course, but go read up a bit about what the intention is with "DE". It's quite simple. Establish a few basic use cases that "just works", have it be usable by a 'developer' or 'hacker' on a daily basis. And at same time, make it extensible.

Even hackers are turned off if basic functionality doesn't work (power management - I don't want a really hot handset near my crotch, buggy UI). As an example, I wanted to throw out my Neo Freerunner out the window from 9th floor after an hour of use and I'm not usually picky about my UI experiences, having used command line UNIX since I was 8.

If we have that basis in short term, we have something really nice to build on top of for additional features. As well as totally customizable applications. Even QML makes it really easy, provided the hardware adaptation is there for things.
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