Hi,

i don't see a roadmap for the MeeGo handset. Here are some things which to my 
understanding are facts:

- Nokia is definitely not supporting this any longer than jun 2012
- MeeGo officially doesn't include any support for hildon/gtk nor plain qt app 
nor meegotouch
- The only MeeGo handset ever to be released addresses the masses and not geeks
- No other vendor has announced any mass market handset or has been demoing 
anything in this direction

My problem here is that i don't see any path to the future. The fact that 
there's no roadmap for future hardware makes it very dangerous to  explicitely 
code for MeeGo handsets. Cross plattform development on the other hand also 
isn't easy as MeeGo doesn't support any of the established frameworks from 
Maemo4, Maemo5, Symbian etc ... It especially doesn't support hildon/gtk nor 
plain qt apps nor meegotouch apps.

Without apps there won't be users. Without users no other vendor will replace 
nokia. Exclusively focussing on a brand new tool chain like qml/qtquick would 
only then be an option if there'd actually be a roadmap. But it looks like 
there isn't. So the goal should be leverage the existing infrastructure as 
possible instead of asking developers to start from scratch. This imho may 
cause that there'll never be a solid developer and user base.

I personally think that MeeGo handset is now orphaned and i think it would be 
very useful to find ways to connect to it's ancestors to get some intial broad 
set of software support which in turn might help it find a new home. To achieve 
this, some very basic projects are needed:

- A MeeGo port of hildon/plain gtk+ and some (unofficial) support for both. To 
my understanding nokia has actually tried to trigger this and there's some 
progress being done here, albeit slower than hoped.

- But imho way more important requirement is some nice integration of plain qt 
apps. Until a few days ago there has been some half-done themeing for plain qt 
apps that made those to mimic the look and feel of meegotouch apps. Without 
such theming plain qt apps look exactly like their desktop counterparts (they 
e.g. have a tiny ordinary menu bar on top and always run in landscape, see and 
example here:  http://www.harbaum.org/till/harmattan.jpeg). I'd really like to 
see the mtf theming to get some caring attention. Qt really is a great basis 
for both desktop and handset apps and the Maemo5 qt integration impressively 
shows how well the handset integration can be done. 

I really think a solid foundation to port apps from previous Maemo versions 
will be crucial to get a solid application based for the MeeGo handset. And 
this in turn is required to pave a persistent road for meego handset.

Till
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