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Smaller device than a typical laptop, but not as small as a mobile device -- a la EEE

OEMs using Intel low power chip sets, i.e. Diamondville, Menlow (Centrino Atom)

MSG already started some work on these devices (very early).

Ubuntu desktop with some customisations
Other changes for boot time, boot experience, power management, wwan radios, etc.

Take 8.04 with minimum changes to it for the netbook. Launcher instead of menus.

3 or 4 packages changing gconf settings.

New windows switcher, "picker" more compact.
Windows are maximized by default but the user can change that (uses Devil's Pie).
Clutter-based launcher
In some cases it can be easier to make a port from maemo than from ubuntu.

Typical screen size is 1024x600
Many applications do not work inside the vertical space
Should applications be modified and changes submitted upstream
Mobile apps that are better suited for netbook screens? If so, can that effort be promoted out to the community?

Rather than have mobile ports of apps, it would be nice if apps were aware themselves of size constraints and adjusted accordingly. -- That's really bad and will not look good: other than size constraints you'll also get usability constraints that it's not easy to make like that. You'd need to go for Model/View separation and have different views, possible reusing components, of course.

GPE has prior art but it was designed for much more limited resources and would look outdated in something like the presented hardware. Users like bling.

Use of online applications as an alternative. Sync ability would be a requirement (read google gears-like)

Emulation

• create emulator image that download and runs (davidm)
  

• no problem with changes in DPI for netbook devices (davidm)
  

• Allow easy-testing through emulation (kvm/qemu/vmware/virtualbox)
  

• Qemu and kvm use same image format, and those images can be converted to vmware images
  

Application stacks

• decouple hardware support from application stacks (emmet)
  

Get community (e.g. gnome mobile) interested in helping testing in a screen emulator with issues like screen constraints.

P. Goodall to work with D. Mandala on a Blueprint for UME and UNR device emulation

• Standard applications
  

• Application considerations
  

• Target users
  

• Development Environment
  

• Device emulation
  

• File system considerations