more info for developing a gdesk plugin

to create your own plugin for the Gdesk apps, you have to have SE symbian development tool and gdesk plugin kit. if you go the sony ericsson website.well... it kills me everytime i read this

quotes from http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/docstools/symbian/p_symbian.jsp

UIQ Technology was a jointly owned company by Sony Ericsson and Motorola and ceased trading during early 2009. As a consequence, all documentation, tools (SDKs) and supportive information hosted on UIQ Technology's servers is now unavailable.

The UIQ product line from Sony Ericsson is discontinued and therefore there will be no further maintenance of Docs & Tools for the UIQ Platform. Focus has moved to the new Symbian Foundation operating platform based on the S60 v5.0 Symbian™ OS.

so now i just focus on making apps just for my phone. hehe... as long as im happy with my phone.

If you want to get a smarphone from Sony Ericsson smartphone lineup, well other than window mobile and android platform. the other thing i reccoment is supporting the symbian foundation platform...
brows this web for more info.
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/docstools/symbian/p_symbian.jsp

other than that, i just want to repost an article from My-Symbian website on UIQ technology bankruptcy

Mon, 05.01.09

UIQ Technology files for bankruptcy

According to Reuters, UIQ Technology has filed for bankruptcy in a district court in Sweden. "There are no opportunities to create a new line of business in the current financial climate", said UIQ Chief Executive Johan Sandberg. This means that the darkest fears of UIQ phones' users became reality: the UIQ platform is now really and offically dead... My-Symbian would like to thank all people behind UIQ for their hard work and giving us all such a great mobile platform. These 6 years will always remain an important part of history of mobile technology. We deeply hope that their intellectual and creative potential will not be wasted and that they will have another chance to impress us once again with great products, hopefully still Symbian OS based. My-Symbian will continue supporting the UIQ platform, its users and software developers. If you have a UIQ phone and you're satisfied with it, keep using it! It won't stop working only because the company went bankrupt. Keep visiting our discussion forums and checking our UIQ3 Software Catalog for (hopefully) new and interesting software releases...

 Posted by Michal Jerz @ 23:59 in UIQ 3.x category

well, if you just want to have the taste of UIQ platform. You can get an UIQ phone. its cheap and reliable. But no further development will be done for the phone. Since my w960 purchase, i notice there were only 2 update available for my phone. there are customizable roms made by some modders available for download. flash at your own risk...