Re: Goal for GNOME Mobile?

["Lionel Dricot" <zeploum gmail com>]

Sorry for replying late but I think it's a very interesting question.

Currently, from my experience, I see that Gnome Mobile is lacking something very important : a product !

I
mean something we can call "Gnome Mobile", with a webpage that shows
you an explanation and some screenshots. And, the most important of
all, a page called "Get Started".

On this page, there will be a set of instruction that you can
follow blindly. It will explains you how to download the whole
platform, write your first hello world and then run it in a simulator
or whatever.

This is really needed. I realize that, currently,
the only way to really take advantage of Gnome Mobile is to hire a
Gnome Hacker. There's no incentive that makes you "wanting to develop
with Gnome Mobile". There are currently no way to convince managers
that it can be useful. Even for experienced programmers, there's
currently no clear definition of what Gnome Mobile is and how to use it.

Just let me write a Gnome Mobile Hello World ! Just explain me the
process of programming for Gnome Mobile. Just let me download a Gnome
Mobile tar.gz that I can build and run on a beagleboard or whatever !

I think that something like Poky is a good start (but still not perfect)

My 2 cents,

Lionel

2008/11/8 Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>

I think GNOME Mobile could use a goal. Something we are all aiming for. (And perhaps we have one and I'm not aware of it.) We have a mission that is good, http://gnome.org/mobile.

Could we make GNOME Mobile a complete solution like Android? A set of software and a spec that hardware vendors could write to and ISVs could develop on top of? I realized we'd need to expand into the Linux kernel space to make that happen. GNOME mobile would be completely free and open and not tied to proprietary web apps like Gmail.

Thoughts?

Stormy

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