I think what Cordia and the CSSU guys are doing is still the way forward at the moment. We have the CSSU slowly replacing the closed source components with open QT replacements. As they are QT the interfaces can easily be carried over to Cordia when the functionality required by them is implemented.

I seem to remember reading over the last few weeks something about Nokia wanting to make Meego so that it takes the burden of maintaining/building the OS off Nokia and hand it over to the community. As most of us probably understand, there are certain binary blobs they wish to keep closed source. Drivers and a few libraries specific to each device which would probably be the hardware adaption teams focus. Once the OS is up and running and Cordia is in a position where it is usable for day to day tasks, the only thing Nokia would have to do is update the small binary blobs here and there. Much better for them.

One thing I did wonder is how much work would be involved to remove GTK from Fremantle. If Meego and what remains of Symbian is going to go over to supporting QT, the CSSU are reimplementing applets in QT and Cordia is QT?, what is the point of loading a GTK desktop to run QT apps? Could we not replace hildon-desktop and friends and implement Cordia's UI?