Porting was pretty straightforward: I just recompiled the sources against the new libraries.

The Alpha SDK have serious issues with graphics (as expected: it is still alpha). Depending on video card and settings, UI is either lagging or messing with colors and contents (or both). For example, menus are totally cluttered (! ) with ATI Radeon 9200 PRO. Fortunately, I had better luck with my good old laptop, which has Intel 855GME Extreme Graphics 2. It seems that without compositing window manager UI is not responsive enough, so all visual effects must be turned on in Ubuntu Intrepid. However, the UI was not a speed monster in my 1,2 GHz laptop either, so I really hope that OMAP3 has enough horse power to make it smooth...

Nevertheless, it was really promising to see Mauku on Fremantle - altough in inverse colors. (Toggling fullscreen on and off makes colors right, so there is a tiny moment to make a screen capture before the application updates its widgets again.)

yep, the ability to hide the dir list, along with horizontal scroll would have been nice.

gpe is close on maemo4, but it seems i must read up on programming for it to get that final distance covered...

I could upload Modest 2.1-2009.08 screenshots if some Nokian allow it (it's still to see if Modest should have done this release) .
It costs a couple of hours built it (delete the not released dependences, built wpeditor, built tinymail from the svn, etc.).

Just say, very finger friendly

I'd like to see that yerga

The purpose of the Fremantle Alpha SDK release is to provide the APIs for development, but the official applications are not intended to be out at this point (except some example apps, osso-xterm and the Application Manager).

Thanks for noticing the Modest source code was out. It was pulled by a dependency that needed to be satisfied by the current Modest source package. We have pulled it back, only because we are actually planning a nice release for Modest when the project is ready for it (with code repository out, good release notes, screenshots of the stable version and so on).

About the performance issues in the SDK related to the graphics acceleration, it would be good that those of you suffering/solving them would share your pain and glory at http://bugs.maemo.org so Soumya and the development platform team get more feedback for debugging, fixing and documenting. Thanks!

Anyone saved the masses of us the hassle of installing the SDK by creating a virtual machine image to share?

That would be nice indeed

Fair enough.

I'll try not leak it, except if I receive a great quantity of money or 1000 karma points :P

It's going in the good way, but this is my personal and untransferable opinion.

A screenshot of the new HildonAppMenu: http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/alpha/...onAppMenu.html