Maemo 5 Reveals its Features
 

http://maemo.org/news/announcements/...rm_developers/

Thanks to yerga for the heads up on IRC.

Re: "First Maemo 5 SDK release targeting platform developers"
 

Looks like I have some software to install this evening. :D

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Oh, and it looks like it's now official: no Maemo 5 for the current tablets.

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Some interesting screenshots (nothing really important yet as explained in the announcement for the UI part).

Just say that it's possible move around the desktop the boxes to set the bg and add applets.

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Is that more than 800x480 or is it just the small title font that confuses me?

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It's the small font in the window titles. I am running it in a 800x480 Xephyr window, In the device could be different :)

Another hints: the dialogs are movable, and have a small close button in the window manager (no cancel buttons in them).

Also the package gstreamer-plugins-camera has some possibles features for the HD camera. And it's opensource. I could list them, but if I am wrong...

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Now, that said, let's just jump right past the "whining and complain" stage and move straight to the "let's do something about it" stage, shall we? :)

Say whatever you will about there not being official support for current tablets with Fremantle (I'd, personally, prefer it if you took your complaints to customer care where it's more likely to get to the ears of the people who make these decisions), but Fremantle is more more open than previous releases, which means the community is significantly more enabled (and encouraged) to see to providing their own support this time around.

This early release comes with an invitation to build variants based on Maemo 5 compatible with existing hardware like the N800 and N810. Maemo SW can't promise commercial quality for such configurations but through maemo.org we are able to collaborate at a community level with technical support, license changes and code.

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all for that, as long as we dont get a "resources" split down the road...

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Given that a competent staff working full time on it has basically given up with omap2 (they say due to the difficulty of maintaining compatibility) I'm skeptical that a yet-not-so-big community can fill the void.
I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.

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You say that like they've got unlimited resources and free time. . . .