Kimmo and Quim: First of all: I did not start this thread as an attack on the Maemo team, nor was my comment, "that's disappointing," meant as an attack. It is a simple statement of fact; it is disappointing to me that Maemo 5 does not yet have the infrastructure in place to be able to run hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in OpenGL ES applications.
To me, this is a very important feature for any future device, and I was disappointed that this is not apparently a high priority within Maemo. I really want the next Maemo device to succeed, and one of the first things the gadget blogs and technophiles will want to see is the games. This means making Maemo 5 games friendly, and to me that means making it easy to port existing OpenGL games to Maemo 5. I don't know the internal workings of Maemo, and perhaps you have a good strategy in place for games; I was thinking purely of porting existing Linux games that were written for OpenGL. So I began thinking of what needed to be in place for this porting to be done. I also admit I might have been influenced by the video of Quake3 on the Pandora. :-) I also don't expect Maemo to port the games, I'm just concerned that the path will be too thorny to encourage others to do it. Alan 2009/6/3 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com> > > I already said that I'm working on non-composited mode, didn't I? I >> don't have to do this, but I'm kind person :) >> > > <snip> > > Well, the device is not out yet, so how far it could be? >> > Thank you for working on it. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Quim Gil <quim....@nokia.com> wrote: > Hi Qole, > > Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:17 +0200, ext Qole wrote: > >> That's quite disappointing. > > Well, more disappointing would be a hildon-desktop inconsistent, > sluggish, buggy and with weird wrong interactions between GTK+, Hildon, > Clutter, OpenGL ES, Xorg, OMAP3 kernel... and more brave technologies > Kimmo and others are dealing with, putting them for the first time in a > commercial product. > > What Kimmo is saying quite frankly (as he is a pure developer as opposed > to people like me, more into words) is First Things First. > > He is also saying that there is plenty of work only the people in the > Fremantle project can do, while there are many other things others can > do thanks to all these technologies being open source. > > It makes sense that Nokia engineers like Kimmo concentrate first on the > things that need to be in place in order to release a successful product > with Maemo 5 inside. > > -- > Quim Gil > open source advocate > Maemo Software @ Nokia > -- enthusiast, n. "One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person."
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