Re: Hildon on MeeGo

[Cornelius Hald <hald icandy de>]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 10:20 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> It's also my plan to help in this as Harmattan window manager developer.
> If someone wants to start the porting work from libhildon side, I
> suggest compiling and running the mdecorator and mcompositor from:
> http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework/duicompositor (mcompositor,
> mdecorator)
> 
> You could use duihome, or just fake it by showing a
> _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DESKTOP window and
> start applications from command line.
> http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework/duihome
> 
> You need libmeegotouch for mdecorator and duihome:
> http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework/libdui
> (I think libmeegotouch and widgetsgallery is already available for
> Fremantle from somewhere...)
> 
> For libmeegotouch you need the theme (this should also be available for
> Fremantle?):
> http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework/duitheme  (meegotouchtheme)

With some minor problems (probably because of a non standard prefix) I
managed to compile libdui, duitheme, contextkit and duicompositor.

But after killing my normal window manager and starting mcompositor, the
screen gets completely distorted. Killing mcompositor gives me back my
usual screen.

I'm not sure why this happens, so I thought that I maybe need something
that inits the screen again and tried to compile duihome. Here,
unfortunately I failed, because I couldn't compile libcontentaction.
Again some problem with the prefix...

Unfortunately still have other stuff to do, so I cannot dig into this
deeper at the moment. I'll try again if I find some time. If I get
everything working, I would like to document it somewhere for others to
use.

If someone wants to try, the following might help you:
* libdui uses QStaticText in mlabelview_p.h. QStaticText is only
available in Qt 4.7. Not sure if this is intentional, the last time I
tried it compiled using Qt 4.6.
* libcontentaction can be found here:
http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-af

Cheers,
Conny