Can't believe I'm responding to you, but Banshee is not a "port" for MeeGo. All the MeeGo integration is tightly integrated into the mainline code.
Congratulation's on being the first MeeGo troll. --Aaron On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
