[maemo-developers] independent home screen

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:32 +0100, ext Wang Baisheng wrote:
> 在 2009-11-24二的 13:28 +0200，Kimmo Hämäläinen写道：
> > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:38 +0100, ext Wang Baisheng wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I want to use an independent home screen which has its own process, not
> > > contained in the hildon-desktop. And now I have a desktop implemented by
> > > gtk, but the hildon-desktop will cover it. 
> > 
> > You are talking about Fremantle/N900?  Does your new home screen provide
> > a window manager also?
> 
> Yes. No. I just want to let the hildon-desktop provide the window
> manager.

Which parts of hildon-desktop you want to replace, task
switcher/launcher?  It's going to be a huge hacking task if you want to
make hildon-desktop as WM only.  Probably it's easier to use matchbox-
window-manager 1 or try to fix libmatchbox2 so that you can compile it
as stand-alone WM.

-Kimmo