pyneo is software for driving a mobile
device.
It is not another (openmoko-)distribution but a set of
programs, daemons and plugins which can in theory be
installed on any GNU/Linux based mobile system. There are
packaging scripts for Debian, OpenWrt and openembedded
available.
pyneo separates functionality from display presentation and
user interaction completly. This makes changing the look
and feel easy. It's not only possible to support different
themes of the gui but also a completly different usage of
the functionality of a mobile device.
It is heaviliy based on dbus. This makes development of
gui components for pyneo easy. Also the developer is not
bound to python, the preferred scripting engine used in
pyneo. Other languages that have dbus bindings integrate
on the fly.
Various services are already available. These include phone
services, location services, map services, bank account
services and more.
A gui is currently under development. epydial wraps all
services in a standard way and is quite feature complete
while zad is a non-standard aproach for mobile devices and
currently not usable at all.
There aren't much handsets currently supported by pyneo. Because most interesting devices just aren't open enough currently only the OpenMoko GTA01 Neo1973 and the OpenMoko GTA02 Freerunner are supported. Support for the Qtopia Greenphone had been droped because of a missing toolchain (volunteers?).