On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:28 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > Ummm, am I missing something here? Why do we need packages intended > for the Nokia tablets in Debian? Is this all to support a development > environment? If so, it would be good to mention it in the descriptions. For a number of reasons. Not only can the Hildon desktop be used as a desktop environment on a normal computer -- for example on embedded systems, or even cut-down systems such as kiosks. There was even a talk at GUADEC this year about running the Hildon desktop on your normal PC[0]. The other big reason is developing for it. Although the official maemo way of developing for the Internet Tablets is downloading Scratchbox and whatever else, a simple apt-get install hildon-desktop and you're ready is helpful. I hope this is informative. [0] http://guadec.org/node/547 -- Jonny Lamb, UK jonnylamb@jonnylamb.com http://jonnylamb.com GPG: 0x2E039402
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