[maemo-developers] Is there any Homescreen API available in Maemo 5?

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 09:37 +0200, ext Alex wrote:
> For example, change UI completely, like add animated panels, which will  
> contain
> widgets/apps, make own virtual desktop system etc. As I understand, it's  
> possible,
> but I should rewrite core UI libraries, yes? Because on some other Nokia  
> smartphones it's

I don't know anything about other Nokia phones, but in Fremantle we have
kept it as simple as possible to keep the code complexity in some kind
of sane proportions. It's already way too complex to my liking.

> possible to write homescreen plugins without any changes in the system  
> libs.

You can write Home plugins in Fremantle, too, but for making your "own
virtual desktop system" you need to replace or modify the existing
virtual desktop system (did this surprise you? ;)).

-Kimmo

> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:53:55 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen  
> <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 08:22 +0200, ext Alex wrote:
> >> Hello to everyone,
> >>
> >> Can I write own homescreen for Maemo 5 platform? Not simple widgets, but
> >> change/customize all homescreen? (homescreen is what you see immediately
> >> after booting up your device, closest analogy is to choose between KDE  
> >> and
> >> Gnome for desktops for example)
> >
> > What kind of changes you want to do?  Depending on your answer, you
> > would need to modify hildon-home, hildon-status-menu, and hildon-desktop
> > sources, since there is no API to "do everything you like without code
> > changes here and now".
> >
> > -Kimmo
> >
> >>
> >> With best regards,
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> maemo-developers mailing list
> >> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
> >
>