Nemo/Roadmap

Nemo Roadmap

Original targets

In the first Nemo Mobile steering group meeting (2011-10-04) the following were agreed as targets:

Content

• Apps are QML/components, MTF-legacy apps - the proposal is to replace the MTF legacy apps with community developed QML ones
• Base Nemo on top of this Mer
• HTML5/WAC support app support, alongside the qml ones
• Trying to maintain good compatibility with Harmattan apps
• HW adaptations:
  • Focus on Nokia Linux handsets
  • IA32 around for development, experimentation and it being an experimental target (until someone stabilizes it)
  • if anyone want to work Nemo on other targets, they're welcome

Process & Organization

• Open governance, lead by steering group
• Nemo will be a reference vendor of Mer
• Continous releases (ie, no major scheduled releases, but like weekly, etc) and have a focus to have 'zypper up' working
• Own bugzilla

Current Long term Targets

Targets have moved a bit during the project and are now more or less the following.

Content

• Replace MTF apps and UX with QML
• Qt5
• Wayland
• Trying to maintain good compatibility with Harmattan QtComponents apps
• HTML5/WAC support app support, alongside the qml ones
• HW adaptations:
  • maintain current HW adaptations (N900, N950, x86)
  • accept new ones

Process & Organization

• Continue to contribute to Mer
• Move to own infrastructure
• Continues releases
• Apps forMeego.org -support
• Support new contributors by documenting and helping
• Instead of Steering Group, weekly open contributor meetings, chair (Carsten Munk), and Nemo presentation in Mer council (Jukka Eklund)

Status

• Rebase to Mer core done, there is more functionality already than there was on top of MeeGo
• No apps yet replaced with QML ones after rebase to Mer, many are Work-in-progress
• QtComponents integrated and working well
• Theme updated to a much more beatiful
• Good Harmattan compatibility (for most apps binary compatibility)
• Good HW adaptions
• No HTML5/WAC support
• Apps.formeego.org client included and working
• Qt 4.8

Next steps

• New Photos, People, and Calendar applications based on QML

Near future

• Replace remaining MTF apps with QML ones
• HTML5 support (PhoneGap probably)

Long term

• Replace Qt4.8 with Qt5
• Replace X11 with wayland
• Replace systemui, control panel, home with QML based ones (for example derived from lipstick)

Dreams

• Open devices with good form factors, open drivers, and powerful HW