RE: could hildon-desktop support multiple configurations?

[Lucas Rocha <lucas rocha nokia com>]

Hi Horace,

> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> I really think your solution is a great idea. And considering the fix,
> could I know when it will be released?

Johan will do it next week.

--lucasr


> Lucas Rocha wrote:
> > Hi Li,
> > 
> >> I have a question on hildon-desktop that is there any possibility for
> >> hildon-desktop to support multiple desktop configurations, like
> >> supporting both maemo rotated "L" layout and moblin single marquee
> >> panel layout? It might be better and more flexible for developers
> >> to build up hildon-desktop with single source base.
> >> 
> >> If you have any suggestions or ideas on this, please share with me.
> >> 
> >> Currently I have a prototype for this that an option
> >> "--enable-umeconfig" is added to control what kind of desktop.conf
> >> need to be installed. With this disabled, maemo rotated "L" layout is
> >> installed by default; while with it enabled, moblin single marquee
> >> panel layout. Also I created another option "--enable-maemogtk" to
> >> switch on/off the MAEMO specified GTK interface that are not
> >> available to me. 
> >> 
> >> The patch file is pasted below and it is based on latest
> >> hildon-desktop 0.0.34. Please help to take a look to see if the idea
> >> is ok.
> > 
> > First of all, thanks for the patch!
> > 
> > I don't think we should have distribution-specific desktop layouts in
> > hildon-desktop source code. Yes, this means that we shouldn't even
> > have the maemo-specific layout there (we'll fix this (soon) by having
> > a "raw" desktop.conf file in the source and putting all our specific
> > configuration files in the debian packaging).
> > 
> > Desktop layout definition is an integration and distribution issue,
> > not upstream's.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > --lucasr