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Mulleboy	2010-12-18 , 21:28
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Originally Posted by fms

Then what is the purpose of posting these pictures, given that they will never become a functional application?

I'm hoping to find someone that can help me make it real.

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mattbutsko	2010-12-23 , 07:52
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I don't want to disappoint, but this concept will never become reality.

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	stickymick	2010-12-23 , 08:07
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Originally Posted by mattbutsko

I don't want to disappoint, but this concept will never become reality.

Be nice to see it though.

Anybody tried the KanziUI demo? Reminds me of that.

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Mulleboy	2010-12-31 , 02:12
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Here's pictures of the newest update.

I've now concluded that Maemo is now OS to do this on and I'll be waiting for Meego.

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mattbutsko	2010-12-31 , 20:12
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I've now concluded that Maemo is now OS to do this on

Do you have any suggestions as to how developers can go about doing this? I could be wrong, but isn't hildon-home tied into the core OS? Similar to how the Symbian homescreen is tied into Symbian. It'd be hard to successfully replace.

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	Captwheeto	2011-01-06 , 23:38
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It's... It's beautiful (': I hate the UI right now. This is amazing. I hope it comes to fruition one day

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gerdich	2011-01-07 , 00:35
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... And please add the number of Obama to the configs of the release.

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Mentalist Traceur	2011-01-07 , 01:07
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mattbusko: Hildon-Home, like, say, a component of GNOME/KDE/X-Server or whatever, is 'tied' to the operating system in that it's a major part of it - however, it is also, like the rest of the Hildons (Hildon Desktop, Hildon Status Menu, Hildon Input Method... I think Hildon Control Panel is the only exception, but I'm pretty sure it's not part of the Hildon Desktop environment). So yes it'd be 'hard' to replace, but not because it's hard to make the replacement possible - it's just like making the N900 support portrait-mode system wide: It's doable, it's just someone has to have the desire and motivation to sit down and rewrite large chunks of the existing code. (And then random **** like the Qt segfault-when-launched-in-portrait-mode bugs get discovered, so there's a nice layer of show stoppers like that.)

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mattbutsko	2011-01-07 , 01:54
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It's doable, it's just someone has to have the desire and motivation to sit down and rewrite large chunks of the existing code

Right, and that's where the difficult part comes in. Replacing the desktop environment and tying up the loose ends in the code. It's very difficult to do that successfully. Although it's open source, which makes it easier for those who are experienced, but it's still difficult nonetheless. Then there's always the task of writing the better environment to replace the old one.

I'd love to see this on the N900, but it will likely never happen.