On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > I'm talking about the visual assets - the interaction model and related > changes. Everything else I expect to be in the open. Am I not explaining > this well? I'm trying really hard here :-)
The clarification you're providing is great! >> ...Intel *could* work in secret, however there would be no guarantee >> that the community around the MeeGo project would accept Intel's new >> design... > > Correct. Unless the MeeGo community - through its maintainers and in an > open process - thought this was cool and they wanted to go with it > (assuming it's under an acceptable license). That's exactly what I was hoping to hear! > I think this is just a semantic difference. We of course want to think > that all the cool stuff that we develop will eventually end up in > MeeGo. But you are correct, that may not happen and be just in Intel's > version of MeeGo. Well as long as Intel keeps on making cool stuff for MeeGo, I'm sure the community will be happy to fold it into the main project! > Almost. "... will add A shiny UI on top". Which we (Intel) THINK will be > the UI that MeeGo (the community, as represented by the maintaienrs) > chooses. Okay. >> I don't have a lot of experience designing UIs, but what if some other >> members of the community want to work on the UI? Will they find >> themselves excluded if Nokia and Intel are cooking up something new >> that hasn't been released to the public yet? > > They will obviously not be working on whatever may or may not be cooked > up behind closed doors - but they are welcome and encouraged to work on > what has been released (within the terms of the licenses involved) > and/or do their own UI. Okay, I think I see the bigger picture here now. Intel wants to work independently on UI designs. Every so often, Intel might make an announcement with some partners, then do a big code drop into Intel repos and ask MeeGo if the project would like to incorporate Intel's new UI. Is that about right? > Ok, I keep trying to make my point clear, keep my words straight and > crisp. Just like some others before in other threads, let's note that > this is not my native language. Please don't do Kreminology on the > specific words or terms or phrases that I use - try to understand the > sentiment I'm trying to express. And if in doubt - keep asking. You've answered all of my questions perfectly well; I dare say that your English is quite a bit better than my attempts at speaking or writing foreign languages. Thanks for replying! --R _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
