Today there have been many news, and one of the most significant is http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework

Yes, it's pure source code. The foundation of the concepts shown by Janne Heikkinen this morning.

I am not impressed with its UI :\
Hell, I like to have many desktops!
Although I like it being totally open sourced

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Are you understanding these UI concepts? Because they are based on the existance of "many desktops". You have a big canvas and you can scroll horizontally (like Maemo 5 does) and vertically as well.

You kids and your UI needs. If you were real men you'd be happy with a green-on-black console.

Also today's release is actually not open source, but a technology preview e.g. http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-f...master/LICENSE

But don't be confused, these components will have an open source license as soon as we start developing them openly. What we have done today is basically a code drop for platform developers and anybody interested in this toolkit on top of Qt.

I need to read thru the docs, but if there is gesture and position control to this, then this is the kind of UI that sci-fi movies are made of.

I probably don't need to look though, my N97 ain't getting this platform, and I'm a bugger for things I can dream/see and can't have :P

The source code is there to proof that this is no sci-fi.

Hey any ideas on when a maemo 6 device will show up ? Any rough estimate? Will it be definittely by late 2010 or 2011?
thanks.

First thing, Don't think I am kinda in love with UI things,however I consider them a bounce to get your job done faster!.
I even don't have a gdm autostarted and I do start it when I need too (/usr/sbin/gdm -nodeamon) , the same goes for (dhcpcd) and others. So don't talk a garbage like that unless you know me.
Also your generalizing wasn't appreciated


Well here are few screen-shots of my current desktop to get you a better idea of how I do prefer my desktop to looks like.




(Please notice that this screenshots were taken from a closed down system , so I had to start few things to get you better idea in the way I use [I usually having 2 websites running on 2 desktops , 1 PDF , 1 with many applications running] and it changes according to the way it fits me)


From these pictures It looks like it going to kill the desktops feature (Which you can consider it a backward step and not what I was excepting out of step5). However, if the desktops feature is available than I am cool with it.


Edit: As I can't seem to find the reverse of thanks you can consider from now on my 'Thanks' as a negative thing (More of "-Thanks")
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I'm personally turned off that the N900 isn't even really out and Nokia is already pushing Maemo 6. It really is a device that should be ignored and not purchased since it's just a stepping stone to the next OS.

I would imagine that Nokia would actually like to sell some N900 units. So, why are they sending the feeling that they aren't really interested in Maemo 5 and have already moved on? I bet they want us to feel that things are moving forward, but in my mind, I'm being left behind.