El sáb, 05-09-2009 a las 10:07 +0200, Roberto Galoppini escribió: > I do not much about how GNOME technologies is used in NOKIA products, > if you can help me to understand it better it would be of great help.
Well, Nokia Internet Tablets are GNU/Linux-based pocket-size computers. For having a real computer experience you need a set of components to make this possible. The main Maemo components are from the GNOME Mobile Platform that is a "subset of the proven, widely used GNOME Platform." "In addition to the core user experience toolkit (GTK+), the platform includes crucial functionality such as multimedia support (GStreamer), instant messaging and presence (Telepathy), Bluetooth (BlueZ)"..."and network service discovery (Avahi). APIs are available for developers using C, C++ or Python." [1][2] For my view, the good thing about Maemo is it means a complete native mainstream mobile programming platform, similar to desktop, where you can program on C, C++. The other mainstream GNU/Linux based mobile application frameworks are much oriented to specific enviroment and languages (Javascript for webOS Palm Pré and Java for Google's Android). Quim Gil gave a talk on GCDS about the next version of Maemo, Maemo 6, code named Harmattan. You can watch and listen here [3]. The main difference that will be introduced on Maemo 6 is that Qt will be support officially by Nokia, instead of GTK+ with Hildon. This is a logical move after the acquisition of Trolltech by Nokia. On this new version GTK+ and Hildon will be supported by the community. The rest of the GNOME mobile components used on Maemo will be supported by Nokia as on the current version of Maemo, Maemo 5, codename Freemantled. "the maemo platform will actually still more or less be GNOME Mobile, except that it will be using Qt instead of GTK+" [4] [1]http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ [2]http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gmae.html [3]http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/maemo-harmattan-keynote-at-gcds/ [4]http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2009/07/04/Nokia-GNOME-Mobile > About questions we'd love to hear why GNOME stuff became part of their > open source strategy, why they have choosen it at the very beginning > and how are they profiting from using it. I really think that Quim Gil is our man for your questions. My advise is to contact him as soon as posible. Sincerely, -- Juanjo Marín -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list