That connection manager looks hot. Another step towards seeing NetworkManager dead and buried.

(Yes, I really hate NetworkManager. So much; that I'd rather see Nokia open sourcing icd2. (Or icd1, I'm not fussy.))

Maemo and Moblin are in fact good neighbours with very little overlapping in the real world, yet many things common in the background.

In their presentation at the Desktop Summit they were really clear saying that Moblin 2.0 was clearly targeted to netbooks and not yet to anything smaller. Touch is considered but not the main focus in their current UI paradigm.

In exchange of that, Maemo is targeting touch UI of devices that fit in your pocket.

power consumption and CPU issues aside, from what we know right know it seems to me that Moblin is stepping in and will become what Maemo used to be in its golden days: a full desktop in your hand.

I'm interested why you hate NetworkManager, or are you talking about the gnome front end to network manager nm-applet?

kdenetwork (for kde 4) looks much nicer, it's still a work in progress but it's coming along nicely.

There were some screen shots done for a revamped nm-applet I saw posted on "fedora planet" a while back, and these looked much nicer and easier to use.

On my PC: Earlier versions worked (it didn't think it was connected when it actually was connected; but, hey, it worked) but as soon as I upgraded to 8.10 (I think), it'd connect but then disconnect me every 60 seconds. Drove me bat-**** crazy.

On my tablet: When installing Mer, it took ~7 installs (all of which had a non-working NetworkManager) for me to realise I was untarring it from a computer which mounted the card with "nodev "etc. This resulted in NetworkManager erroneously reporting that the tablet had "no wireless card". I wouldn't mind and I would lay the blame on Ubuntu for mounting my card with restrictive options (yes, never my fault ) but, yet, wicd worked fine when NetworkManager would not.

I'm not so fussed about the interface on a desktop, and I'm a GNOME user (well, ex-GNOME user; I turned to the dark side: Windows...).
I'd rather NetworkManager "just worked". But I'm placing my hopes in connman now.

As for all those who have been yelling about battery life, there's some new batteries coming down the pipe that will provide like 3-4x's the battery life of current batteries, mostly because their native MAH is considerably higher.

I think I saw one of the prototype batteries that were in the same size and form factor as an existing 1600mah cell phone battery, and the unit had like 7000mah in the same form factor and the same space. Once we get those, and assuming that we also get the same battery efficiency improvements we've been getting, I can easily see devices like the n810 having month long operational times on a single charge.

i'll believe it when i see it...

Nickel Zinc Rechargeable Batteries are one of the first steps that way.

heh, thanks for reminding me.

btw, some of the battery types with wiki pages are kinda fun, here for instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-sulfur_battery

tho something tells me it probably has better luck as a chemical water heater then a battery

That is an INSANE performance jump if that battery is not the stuff of fairy tale *drools*

Let's hope the battery cartel isn't like the oil one