Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

hi everybody
i'm just curious. How it is gonna effect Mer Development?
will it be a helping source for Mer Developers
or
will it stop Mer Developers?

im sure a lot of members of this community is already got curious about this.
May it be possible to port maemo5 desktop or some of apps. to os2008?

sorry for my english
i'll be waiting for your reviews
what do you think? how it is gonna be?

Re: Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

No. Maemo5 on N8x0 is just a nice sideeffect of what we're doing. Mer is 'MaEmo Reconstructed' and we try to provide a fresh view on the Maemo platform. As I've said before, a pure backport project would die out as more people upgraded their HW.

I expect to see Mer on RX-51 too.

Maemo5 release consequences for Mer:
* Open theme template (yay)
* No more waiting for SDK releases and big breaking changes
* Upstream is not so stressed anymore
* We can finally see how the UI is supposed to look
* More attention about the Maemo platform(see people wanting Maemo5 on Eee pc)

Besides that - business as usual. After 1.0 we switch our focus to Harmattan.

Re: Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

Thanks again for all the work on Mer and I realize it can be difficult addressing multiple concerns.

Following up on this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30915

and the hardware status here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Status

and seeing there is no D-pad or some HW buttons on RX-51 (and perhaps Fremantle will not support or advocate same),

is Mer committed to supporting these and other HW features for N8x0, Smart Q5, and future devices?

Re: Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

Re d-pad.. it's cursor buttons from developer POV. Even though rx-51 doesn't have menu button/esc, it is still supported in the libraries. We already use ESC in Mer for dialogs :)

Re: Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

In the fremantle libraries or Mer libraries (or both)?

And how about the zoom/fullscreen HW buttons? I sense that the new Maemo 5 UI is moving away from these elements (maybe I'm wrong). Will Mer continue to support them?

Re: Effects of Maemo5 Release on Mer Development??
 

Fremantle libs. Zoom? zoom's removed? Again - Fullscreen button is a F-button from app perspective. Right now we don't have Fremantle hildon-desktop so we just go with what works..

It's a difficult discussion really. Mer UI would probably be usable with similar set of buttons like N900 and remaining ones could be shortcuts.