GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative (GMAE), also known as GNOME Mobile, is an initiative for developing and promoting the use of the GNOME platform in mobile devices. It was announced at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, California on April 19, 2007.^[1]

Software architecture

GNOME Mobile strips deprecated components on the desktop only for backward compatibility and adds mobile-specific components like matchbox (window manager), a window manager optimized for mobile integrated devices. GNOME mobile uses and optimizes the mainline codebase as used in the Desktop, merely scaling the design down for the smaller form factor.

Core infrastructure: Linux kernel, systemd, PulseAudio, X/Wayland, Glib and D-Bus,
matchbox (window manager)
Toolkit for the user interface
- GTK+ toolkit, incorporating Pango, Cairo or ATK
- the Gstreamer multimedia framework
- Telepathy
- Avahi network service discovery
- Evolution Data Server for contacts and calendaring
- BlueZ Bluetooth support

Future features

Tinymail
GeoClue geolocation service
Java Mobile & Embedded (Java ME)
PulseAudio audio management
HAL hardware information system

Current uses

Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets
Nokia N900 Mobile Computer
the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project
Openmoko Linux mobile phones such as Neo FreeRunner

Founding groups

References

↑ "THE GNOME FOUNDATION AND INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN TO CREATE GNOME MOBILE & EMBEDDED INITIATIVE". GNOME Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2009-09-03.

External links

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[1] "THE GNOME FOUNDATION AND INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN TO CREATE GNOME MOBILE & EMBEDDED INITIATIVE". GNOME Foundation. Archived from the original on 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2009-09-03.