Re: Hildon on MeeGo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:08:12AM +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
>
> > I think, the question is: How do we get Hildon running on MeeGo
> > handsets? To me that's a purely technical subject and has nothing to
> > do with politics and other "what might happen in the future" stuff
> > that has been discussed here.
>
> Pre-Maemo5 versions had already been available in Debian and early
> versions of Moblin (in fact I had released a Moblin version of the
> Vagalume Last.fm client back then[1]). Later versions are also in
> Debian[2] (compiling against upstream GTK by the way).

Yes, I remember. At some point I was able to run my Maemo4/Hildon 
software on Ubuntu.

> I think the hardest think is all the HildonStackableWindow stuff,
> which on the other hand is very tied to how the Maemo window manager
> works.

That probably has to be implemented using Gtk or Clutter directly. It 
would even be ok, if they are not animated. Also Kimmo on MeeGo-dev said 
something about "What comes to the sliding window animations, those will 
be supported in Harmattan at least". Of course we don´t know if 
Harmattan==MeeGo in this sentence :/

Another difficulty could be the application menu I guess, because it´s 
also triggered by the window manager.

> And then there's all the changes in Maemo-GTK, which should be ported
> to the latest version. Although on the other hand it appears that
> Meego is not going to switch to GTK 3.0...[3]

Is it possible to install hildon-gtk and gtk on the same machine? If 
not, this could be a problem. If I understood the MeeGo plans correctly, 
there will only be plain Gtk available on the netbook image. I don´t 
know how it will be with the handset image.

If there will be no default Gtk on the handset image (I think so), then 
it could be even easier. We could skip the porting to a new Gtk version 
and simply use the one from Maemo5. This would mean that "only" the 
current Hildon-Gtk and Hildon have to be adapted to use a different 
window manager, input methods, screen resolution(?), etc.

To me that sound like the fasted approach and I don´t think we need 
Hildon on netbooks anyways.


Thanks for your input Berto!
Conny