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Farewell Smeegol
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OpenSUSE developer Andrew Wafaa (Andrew Wafaa) announced the closure of Smeegol, a project to transfer light notebook interface with MeeGo on OpenSUSE.
The developer came to the conclusion that within the project MeeGo not expected further development of the notebook interface, and with that and work on Smeegol he considers pointless. “18 months of development under the cat’s tail” – summed up the disappointment, Andrew.
That the project MeeGo less interested in the netbook market, it became clear at the last FOSDEM from the submitted development plan for the project: for already released Netbook UX assumed only bug fixes. From the conversations at the same FOSDEM it became clear that the reasons for this development is well justified: draft Netbook UX did not justify their hopes.
The reasons for failure were also identified by sharp fluctuations and falling netbook market. Moreover, in informal conversations mentioned that the project MeeGo completely focused on Qt and donated development based on GTK.
Yet Andrew Wafaa assured that repository Smeegol based MeeGo 1.0 will continue to be available. If someone wants to take over the project – it will be only too pleased. Nursing same Andrew, however, was final.
Tags: farewell, opensource, smeegol, software