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Archive for March, 2007

Building Hildon Desktop outside Maemo/Scratchbox environment

March 27, 2007

I wrote a step-by-step guide to have Hildon Desktop running outside the Maemo/Scratchbox environment. Our major goal here is to make it easy for distributons to package Hildon Desktop so that developers can have a quick-to-setup environment for the development of plugins which doesn’t need to be built against ARM such as Python plugins. For now, this guide only applies to Ubuntu (If you can point out the changes needed to work on another distribution, please let me know). This is a call for testers and brave developers to follow the guide and report the missing/problematic bits.

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPortability

There are some issues that still block us from getting Hildon Desktop in a distribution but we’re working on that.

Writing a “Hello World” Python plugin for Hildon Desktop (Updated)

March 23, 2007

Ok, I created a new screencast in theora format now. It has a nice complement about how to make resizable applets.

Update: I removed the audio. The music was too noisy. :-P

Writing a “Hello World” Python plugin for Hildon Desktop

March 22, 2007

As I told you before, Hildon Desktop now has a new plugin system and one of the cool things about it is the Python support. Just for the sake of demonstration, I recorded a screencast with the step by step process of writing a “Hello World” Python plugin for the Home area of Hildon Desktop.

Yes, it’s really simple. Of course, this is a useless plugin but I just wanted to demonstrate how easy and simple is to have the basic infrastruture done.

Enjoy!

Update 1: the GIF image is too heavy and people are having problems to watch the screencast. I’ll upload a new (and better) file tomorrow as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience. :-/
Update 2: I removed the link to the screencast for now just to avoid other people to have the same problem and complain about the same thing.
Update 3 The link is updated with a new/more-complete version of the screencast.

New SoC deadline

March 21, 2007

Good news! The deadline for student application in Google Summer of Code was postponed! This means that you, students, have more time to submit your project proposals! The new deadline is March 26.