A reasonable idea. IIRC, only Stskeeps has access under NDA to the source though, and there may be restrictions to only allow Meego DE (and now Mer) to use them. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.

Not to put words into their mouths...but there's also the not inconsiderable task of convincing the Mer guys to do some work on a sister project when they're probably prefer people just switched wholesale to theirs.

...at the very best we'd still be trading a known binary blob tied to old kernel interfaces with an unknown binary blob tied to newer kernel interfaces. They cannot release the source due to the NDA.