On Freitag 28 Mai 2010 21:06:19 JD Zheng wrote: > seems I am unable to get consistent answer.
I only subscribed today to this list and one thing is clear: The MeeGo developer "community" is a total mess. In no way coordinated as if they are working towards making it fail. When MeeGo was announced, it was very clear: Qt is the main toolkit, GTK is just "community" supported. Nokia is obviously keen to push Qt-based frameworks and applications out of the door. Intel seems to only officially support Qt while in reality they are working against it. Instead of moving the former Moblin UX towards Qt, they even introduce an entirely new toolkit that competes with Qt: http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2010/05/20/mx-toolkit-1-0/ According to http://gitorious.org/mx-toolkit the project was created just two months ago -- certainly not some legacy technology that's just there. Then Novell's ex-Ximian team joins the game to push Mono into MeeGo (probably with the agenda to release MonoTouch later for MeeGo Handset). Contrary to the "replacing stuff that already works is a waste of time" argument, Novell pushes newly written specialised ports of Banshee (Mono app) and Evolution into MeeGo. This, again, is obviously in no way coordinated with founder Nokia. For example: Nokia chose to extend KDE's KCal library for calendaring features: http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Meetings/Akonadi-2010-05#MeeGo_KCal_Extensions Evolution uses the Evolution Data Server for that. I bet it'll be easier to sync a Windows Mobile phone with Mac OS X than a MeeGo phone with a MeeGo netbook.... On one hand it's a "waste of time" to migrate everything in MeeGo to a common base, on the other hand it's supposedly no waste of time and resources to develop everything twice... Are you secretly all Android supporters or what? Instead of acting as if Moblin and Maemo were still completely independent products, look how KDE works: They are currently developing a desktop PC GUI, a netbook GUI, a smartphone GUI, and a media center GUI from a single base (Plasma) in a coordinated fashion. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
