building cordia on harmattan

Hello,

I have been trying for the past weeks to build cordia on harmattan and
I need a little help.
The current status is described below, and you can find the whole history at
       http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84987

Current Status
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Packages configured and built successfully

atk-1.29.2
clutter 0.8 from cordia github (--with-flavor=eglx -with-gles=1.1)
glib from cordia github (latest)
gnome-menus-svn2.23.3-2maemo+0m5 from maemo.org
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0 from gnome.org
gnome-vfs-2.24.4 from meego.com
gtk latest from cordia github
libhildon from cssu gitorious (cordia package was asking for gtk3)
libhildondesktop from cssu gitorious (cordia package was asking for gtk3)
libmatchbox2 from cordia github
pango1.0_1.24.2-0maemo4+0m5 from maemo.org (harmattan pango not compatible)

Now I am stuck to compiling hildon-desktop

First I cannot force it to use fremantle pango instead of harmattan
pango and if I just do ./configure i get this error
       /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to
`pango_fc_font_create_base_metrics_for_context'

cordia-hd-i586.20120529

I just pushed cordia-hd-i586.20120529 alpha build to
http://cordiahd.org/download/HD/

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Basic applications and plugins set?

Now that we again have a working Hildon-Desktop stack, we need to decide
how to proceed from here.

I guess the basic minimum for a working system would be:
- clock plugin
- battery plugin
- connman plugin
- terminal emulator

Do we have open source candidates for these?
Or do we need to rewrite (or port+hildonize) them?

IIRC the CSSU project had already started rewriting some parts of
Fremantle.
Maybe we could reuse some of their work? (Unless it is Qt beased...)

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cordia-hd-i586.20120424

http://cordiahd.org/#news

There is a new Cordia HD Alpha (20120424) release available at
http://cordiahd.org/download/HD/

This release is based on GLib 2.32.0, GTK+ 2.24.10 (with MAEMO_CHANGES),
bleeding edge libhildondesktop 2.1.44 and CSSU version of Hildon-Desktop
2.2.142-19.

You will find GLib and GTK+ with Fremantle patches at
https://github.com/Cordia

rpm packages are available at
https://build.pub.meego.com/project/show?project=Project%3ACordia%
3AHildon

There also is PoC .ks for N900 at https://github.com/Cordia/images
Unfortunately due to broken Mer's armv7hl package of zypper I was unable
to build an image off it.

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Fremantle stack built for Mer

Yesterday I restored from backup my old packages that were used to build
MeeGo based Cordia HD image available for download.

I pushed them to COBS, worked to get less dependencies and fixed them to
build for current Mer.

The repository is available at:
https://build.pub.meego.com/project/monitor?project=Project%3ACordia%3AHildon

This is almost vanilla Fremantle stack, with MAEMO_CHANGES patched GLib
and GTK+. Only hildon-desktop has some patches ported from the evolution
branch, to make it compile in the lack of MCE presence.

Unfortunately the issue with ImageMagick on ARM is still present. Older
version crashes on ARM, newest one just doesn't build. This in turn
makes hildon-theme-marina unbuildable on ARM.
Oh well... Just take hildon-theme-marina from i586 repo - it's noarch
anyway.

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Cordia Project on COBS

Thanks to COBS admin phaeron we have a top-level project for Cordia in
the Community OBS.

You may track the progress and play with stuff at
https://build.pub.meego.com/project/subprojects?project=Project%3ACordia

As you can see we are working both on Dawati and Hildon.
Dawati porting and packaging is phaeron great work, based of effort of
Dawati folks.

So, we will have Netbook oriented releases of Cordia based on the
Moblin/MeeGo Netbook UX, and MID oriented releases based on Hildon.

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New year status update

As just posted on http://cordiahd.org/

"""
Cordia Project is getting some speed recently.

I just finished porting Hildon library to GTK+ 3 (with help from muks) -
github/Cordia/hildon

phaeron is working on packaging Dawati for Cordia Base, so we can offer
you a Cordia SD version, while you wait for Hildon Desktop on Mutter
port.
 (Cordia SD  is a Cordia subproject serving an upgrade for
Moblin/MeeGo Netbook UX based netbooks.)

Things are looking good.
"""

BTW, You may like to follow
https://plus.google.com/110460933792803306492

CordiaTab wish list

We are thinking about building our own Phone/Tablet like device.

If we actually decide to do it, what parameters/features would you like to see in one?

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n900 mer

Debugging Clutter based window manager

I'm working on porting Hildon Desktop to current Clutter and GNOME3
framework and I have an issue with Clutter.

Recent versions of clutter do not work with Mesa LLVMpipe software
renderer at all. This makes debugging clutter-based window manager very
hard.

When I was working on old Hildon Desktop based on Clutter 0.8 I was
testing it under Xephyr or second XOrg screen on another virtual
console. Both these attempts use software renderer and do not work with
current clutter. Running simple clutter tests apps (tests/interactive)
does not work in this scenario too. Ie. test-cairo-flowers displays
first frame and freezes.

Do you have any ideas how to test a clutter based window manager?
So far I came up only with idea of two machines, one for development
over ssh (with other desktop), and second for actual testing. 

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OpenSourceMID.org

This is something that just came up http://www.opensourcemid.org/

Could be a good hardware platform for Cordia HD.