Moises Martinez porting Maemo 5's hildon-desktop to Ubuntu
A Nokia engineer, Moises Martinez, is currently working on getting Maemo 5's hildon-desktop desktop environment running in Ubuntu. This is the same version of Hildon Desktop for Ubuntu but running on Lenovo s10-3t. The touchscreen driver is not very reliable and it's not very precise but it is good enough to enjoy a browser experience on the couch or for watching movies. Code is in gitorious but it is still work in progress (porting to clutter-1.0 gradually taking most of my time).
Should daemon applications (such as SSH & ntpd) require the "CLI" icon?
A discussion about the exact requirements for the "CLI" icon for use by packages appearing in the Application Managers has popped up in the community forum on Talk. The discussion centers around whether the icon is necessary for daemon packages which do not offer a GUI front-end, but do not require interaction with XTerminal to use them. Interested community members should get involved in the discussion as soon as possible.
Google Summer of Code ideas going for voting soon
Voting on the project ideas for Maemo for the 2010 Google Summer of Code will start soon. The Maemo Community has received 84 GSoC students applications (plus 7 ineligible), almost the double of last year. Thanks to all the students that applied for us and to everybody that helped on the GSoC initiative.
Now is time to review the proposals. :)