As i understand Sailfish OS in based on Mer, difference is very small ~10 rpm packages. Why we can`t just use same packages that will be in Sailfish Emulator of Beta SDK?
On 18 July 2013 19:03, Andrea Bernabei <and.berna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys :) > > We all know Sailfish has moved to Wayland and will use Wayland by default > in its first phone :) > > The time has come for us to start moving Nemo to Wayland as well! > > This will give us the opportunity to use the same middleware Jolla is > currently using, and it's our chance to switch to Qt5 and be as connected > to Sailfish OS development as possible! > > For the N9/N950 users: if you want to have the chance of seeing Sailfish > OS on your phone, please note that THIS is the way to go! No Wayland on > Nemo, no chance of having Sailfish on your phone! ;) Just to make things > clear :D > > So...what's the plan? > > Yesterday I started working on making a Nemo VM i486 image which is as > Qt4-free as possible, and uses Wayland by default. > > You can see the current status of this transition to Wayland here > https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Wayland_Nemo_VM_Image > > Stskeeps suggested starting from the VM as it has a stable hardware > adaptation, we can do Wayland images for the other platforms later on > (n9/n950 anyone? :D) > > Also, this whole Wayland/Qt5 thing is needed before we start implementing > stuff for the new Nemo UI (which is Glacier UI, at the moment), as it > wouldn't make sense to implement stuff in Qt4/X11 now and then port > everything to Qt5/Wayland shortly after that, right? :D > > After fixing all the needed bits on the wiki page (i.e. look for all the > Qt4 and Qt4-dependent packages we can get rid of, and write down which of > those can be replaced with their Qt5 ports) we have to change stuff in > Nemo's boot process (which is using systemd) so that the new qt5 services > are used, and the Wayland compositor is run at startup, instead of the > current X11 compositor. > > I know little about systemd at the moment, I'll start researching as I'm > done with the packages stuff...If you can help with systemd or can boost my > systemd knowledge, please contact me! :) > > People from Jolla are already helping me, but they're often busy with > other stuff, and I can't waste too much of their time on this, I want them > to focus on Sailfish :D > > So please bookmark the page I created, and if you want to help please come > talk to me at #nemomobile on IRC :) > > This is all, > have a nice evening people! > > > faenil > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >
_______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list