hey quick question, will Meego still have the user control that Maemo has? it seems like devs are gonna wanna remove stuff like that to make Meego more "consumer friendly".

will we still have sudo gainroot, access to the root fs, xterminal, etc etc? i'd searcg but i'm away from my laptop and its rather difficult on the device i'm on.

hmmmh

I wondered what these maemo users would like to have in meego that was in the previous maemo os's

All of that is up to the vendor of the device.

This is a good question for me, too. One of my favorite things about the N900, and one of the ones I didn't even think about when I got it, was that it comes pre-rooted. Now I got an iPad for work, and it drives me nuts every day that I don't have root access. Heck, NOBODY has root access to the iPad without a jailbreak, not even the developers! My next smartphone is going to have root access and a community like this.

based on videos i seen on meego i really dont like the ui. i like how maemo allows u to have multiply background for different homescreen. i prefer scolling the home screen better than hitting menu for my apps since i setup each screen for each task such as web account shortcuts on one screen and stock market account on another.maemo os look better. the only thing i would like added to the n900 is portrait keyboard and multi touch screen other than that this device is perfect.and since matbutsko metion it are we still goin to have x terminal never notice anyone going into it in any of the videos. all video are the same and only show one homescreen then u tap the so called menu to select your apps it reminds me of android. and why dont they make the ui look like the meego tablet demo on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqeeQd-YNL0 . i think if the ui look like this on the n9, nokia will kill android, iphone and wm7 hands down. btw do you really like windows mobile new os? it looks cluttered to me, just my opinion.

just looking at the phone ui, it looks more like a phone and less like a linux computer, while the n900 is the other way around. i just hope nokia doesnt forget about the power users and stops intel if they wanna consumerify meamo with meego, thats probably what they'd do.

nokia should have just kept maemo. i love maemo, only use my laptop half as much as i use to. i saw a video preview of the meego contacts application, it looks IDENTICAL to my old and sold iPod Touch's conatcts app.

many typoes and grammar errors, on my beloved n900 now and dont feel like typing properly!

There was talk of the terminal being accessed by a shortcut in Maemo 6 aka Meego Harmattan. See thread here,

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...121#post433121

X-Term wouldn't mean root access though, this would depend if running in open or closed mode.

this is all very scary ..

No, you simply need to pay attention.

What you should be worried about are the multitudes of vendors who make no room for, nor even discuss, giving the user even an option to gain root access.

Isnt Meego being developed by the community? or is it just the support once it has been finalised

I thought the N900 wasnt going to be supported by Nokia in any kind of official capacity, therefore wouldnt it be down to the developers to allow root access ?