Re: Goal for GNOME Mobile?

[Loïc Minier <lool dooz org>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote:
> Isn't this, in effect, already happening in projects like Maemo, Moblin
> and Ubuntu Mobile...? What would we be doing that they aren't...?

 Not really:
 * Ubuntu Mobile isn't about being a new upstream code project with
   developer forces, but it's rather an integration point and a place
   to try out various things (Hildon, or tweaking the GNOME desktop)

 * Moblin 1 is over and was Hildon based; Moblin 2 isn't there yet; they
   might be an upstream project building on Clutter and other libs, but
   then they aren't GNOME but a GNOME alternative (in my eyes), work is
   happening "within Moblin" and the products are branded Moblin, not
   GNOME

 * Maemo does everything from bottom to top; we could use their bits,
   Hildon almost moved to GNOME!  Hildon is also moving to Clutter, has
   strong backing, and a large community; however it's only aimed at
   MIDs so far (AFAICT), not netbooks or phones but this could change as
   the next Maemo-supported devices will have 3G.
   A weird thing is the inclusion of Qt in the picture.


 So GNOME Mobile can either wait for the above projects to make all the
 design decisions and perhaps use some GNOME libs for now, but then it's
 just going to be that: a lib provider.

 Compare to the GNOME Desktop; that's a standing achievement, delivered
 on time every six months!  Perhaps GNOME Mobile could aim for something
 similar.

-- 
Loïc Minier