[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RE: Boot to a different look?

[From: Ng, Cheon-woei]

Thanks for all the suggestions.  Yesterday, I was working on exactly what Tapani suggested.  I am glad that I am going to the right direction.  

I adjusted the bootup script yesterday and was able to boot to any program I want.  Now I will try making my own program that shows the icons.  

There is one issue that I encountered without the maemo-af-desktop.  For example, once I minimized a program, I could not get the program back anymore without restart af-sb-init.sh.  I may have to make all programs not minimized able and only exit able.   

I might also follow Michael's suggestion as an alternative solution if I am stuck.  

Thanks again!

Woei

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kostrzewa [mailto:michael.kostrzewa at nokia.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:23 AM
To: ext Tapani Pälli
Cc: Ng, Cheon-woei; maemo-developers at maemo.org
Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] RE: Boot to a different look?

You might want to keep the X layer and replace everything above (gtk,
hildon, desktop) with other components. Perhaps the biggest challange
is getting tablet-specific input methods to support those components. 

MDK

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:44:48AM +0300, ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
> ext Ng, Cheon-woei wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am new to Maemo and Linux programming in general.  I have scanned
> > through the archived developer mailing list but I did not see similar
> > subject.  
> >
> > I am wondering if I could adjust Maemo to boot to a different look like
> > the picture link below:
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061026/480/f26319e8ffdb4d90b1c5b50cc077bc13#
> >
> >
> > How difficult would it be to adjust Maemo to boot to a blank screen that
> > filled with just application's icon buttons?  Would it involve source
> > code adjustment?  Would booting to an application like a web browser
> > with buttons solves my problem?  Or may be I should not even use Maemo?
> >
> >   
> 
> Not that difficult. All you need is to modify the bootup scripts to
> start only what's needed (check scripts in /etc/osso-af-init directory)
> and make your own program that shows the icons. No source code changes
> should be needed, just editing the shellscripts. I think there might
> come some problems of not having maemo-af-desktop there but they are all
> solvable.
> 
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers/suggestions.  
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Cheon-Woei Ng  
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> >
> >   
> 
> // Tapani
> 
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