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 a lot of the old deprecated stuff that still needs to hang around on the desktop for backward compatibility, and adds mobile-specific components like matchbox (window manager), a window manager that’s highly tuned for mobile integrated devices. GNOME mobile uses and optimizes the mainline codebase as used in the Desktop, in the same way you have the same core Linux kernel from a phone up to a huge supercomputer.

• 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

• 2007-04-23 GNOME Foundation announces embedded initiative
• 2009-01-16 Paul Cooper

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

• ACCESS
• Canonical Ltd.
• Igalia
• Intel
• Debian
• Nokia
• Red Hat
• Fluendo
• Linux Foundation
• Maemo
• OpenedHand

References

1. "THE GNOME FOUNDATION AND INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN TO CREATE GNOME MOBILE & EMBEDDED INITIATIVE". GNOME Foundation. Retrieved 2009-09-03.

External links

• GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
• Ars Technica - GNOME Foundation announces embedded initiative