Re: Hildon on MeeGo

[Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo hamalainen nokia com>]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 15:09 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote:
> 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.

Was this in the N900?  Hmm, could be that mcompositor tries to use some
EGL extensions that are not there. I'll look at this at some point.

-Kimmo

> 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
> 
>