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

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Looks like I have some software to install this evening.
 
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Oh, and it looks like it's now official: no Maemo 5 for the current tablets.

Maemo 5 comes today as an SDK only since it targets the OMAP3 architecture and no OMAP2 compatibility will be officially provided. The revamped UI relying on graphics acceleration and the new functionality built around the new supported hardware made it too complex to keep the compatibility between both architectures.
 

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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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Originally Posted by yerga View Post
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.
Is that more than 800x480 or is it just the small title font that confuses me?
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Is that more than 800x480 or is it just the small title font that confuses me?
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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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Oh, and it looks like it's now official: no Maemo 5 for the current tablets.
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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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?
all for that, as long as we dont get a "resources" split down the road...
 
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
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.
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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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.
You say that like they've got unlimited resources and free time. . . .
 
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