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07:01.11freemangordonFatPhil: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/unMdjD_fnZM
07:01.40freemangordonFatPhil: /me needs an advice on how to continue from there
07:02.47freemangordonI think I should insist on reverting the patch that broke, it, but don;t know how to ask for that - sending a new patch or telling Tomi to do it
07:02.54freemangordontelling/asking
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08:40.45DocScrutinizer05moin Pali
08:42.16Palihi
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13:35.10sunweaverHi. Is this the place of the Fremantle Porting Task Force?
13:35.44sunweaverI am a Debian Developer and would like to bring the Hildon desktop to Debian. I wonder what approach I should use.
13:35.55sunweaver... as the upstream situation is unclear.
13:36.33sunweaverAnd of course, packaging software for Debian means that the software has to compile against libs and stuff currently in Debian unstable.
13:36.41sunweaverany hints will be appreciated...
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13:50.41DocScrutinizer05well, *basically* fremantle _is_ a debian already
13:51.52DocScrutinizer05with quite a number of customizations like hildon-desktop, hildon-home, and several other middleware
13:52.17DocScrutinizer05so "bringin hildon to debian" is a bit... fuzzy
13:52.55DocScrutinizer05it's rather like "bring most recent debian (and kernel) to fremantle-debian"
13:54.01DocScrutinizer05to give you an idea:
13:54.03DocScrutinizer05~closed
13:54.03infobotsomebody said closed was http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages or https://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_closed_packages
13:54.18DocScrutinizer05~fptf
13:54.18infobothmm... fptf is the Fremantle Porting Task Force, see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91308
13:56.31DocScrutinizer05"bringing HD to debian" wouldn't mean any of the debian apps would run under hildon out of the box, since they use specific HD functions
13:56.57DocScrutinizer05or they *don't*, rather
13:58.20DocScrutinizer05HD is a desktop manager, kinda similar to KDE or gnome
13:59.14DocScrutinizer05but highly customized resp tailored to fit on embedded with touchscreen and no mouse
14:00.20DocScrutinizer05bringing it to debian is... well I don't find a better word for it than "fuzzy"
14:02.11DocScrutinizer05fremantle kernel is FOSS but based on http://elinux.org/OMAP_Power_Management aiui, which makes for 50+% of the awesome standby time of N900
14:04.06DocScrutinizer05unlike android and other embedded OS, maemo completely relies on zeroclocking of idle CPU
14:04.51sunweaverDocScrutinizer05: so providing the Hildon Desktop in Debian would put a demand on many other applications to link into the hildon API?
14:05.02DocScrutinizer05other OS either stop tasks that are not having focus, or they even suspend the whole device to RAM which also isn't really a nice idea
14:05.11sunweaverthe idea is getting Debian ready for embedded devices.
14:05.24DocScrutinizer05sunweaver: that's fremantle
14:05.30sunweaverhmmm...
14:05.50sunweaverbut it's based on old Debian sources that are unmaintained in Debian...
14:06.02sunweaverdo you maintain the complete stack yourself?
14:06.06DocScrutinizer05well, then redefine your task
14:06.08DocScrutinizer05:-)
14:06.10sunweaverbased on loads of old upstream releases?
14:06.42DocScrutinizer05ask pali and freemangordon about that, afaik they do exactly that
14:07.18DocScrutinizer05backporting of new patches
14:07.27DocScrutinizer05is a main task of CSSU
14:07.28sunweaverwhat would make sense to me is take the non-Debian component in Fremantle, tailor them in the role of upstream, so that they fit into Debian, propagate APIs for Hildon that other upstream project should adopt and then build your stack for the Neo900 from there...
14:07.44sunweaverok...
14:08.19DocScrutinizer05we're not going to completely re-invent fremantle
14:08.27sunweaverhehe... course not...
14:08.31sunweaverhmmm...
14:08.44DocScrutinizer05since then we'd duplicate what mer/nemo already did.., twice? three times?
14:09.02sunweaverI tend to compare things with Ubuntu and Debian...
14:09.12DocScrutinizer05eeeew ubuntu
14:09.16sunweaverIt's so easy to get software into Ubuntu...
14:09.31sunweaverBut if you want to get the software widely spread, get it into Debian...
14:09.48sunweaverit will end up in Ubuntu anyway and also in other derivatives...
14:10.05sunweaverSo the sustainable approach for a Debian derived system is: go back to the roots.
14:10.08sunweaverIMHO
14:10.41DocScrutinizer05well, look e.g for marble
14:10.55sunweaverget your stack running inside Debian, and only add hardware specific stuff in fremantle
14:11.10DocScrutinizer05http://maemo.org/packages/view/marble/
14:11.13sunweavermarble? URL?
14:11.23DocScrutinizer05it's a "kde" app
14:11.51sunweaveryes. and?
14:11.51DocScrutinizer05but you don't port fremantle or hildon to marble or kde, you port marble to hildon
14:12.11sunweaversure.
14:12.18merlin1991hildon is a full set of apis just like kde or the gnome desktop
14:12.20sunweaverhildon is a desktop UI, right?
14:12.28merlin1991hildon-desktop is
14:12.32merlin1991but hildon goes further
14:12.32sunweaverok, API.
14:12.34DocScrutinizer05hildon is a desktop manager
14:12.44DocScrutinizer05incl API as usual
14:12.52sunweaveris it tied to a distribution (fremantle)?
14:13.02DocScrutinizer05yes, kinda
14:13.11DocScrutinizer05since it's pretty hw specific
14:13.23sunweaverhmmm... ok.
14:13.24DocScrutinizer05I already mentioned this
14:13.29merlin1991it even has screen sizes hardcoded in a few places :D
14:13.36sunweavertouchpad, no keyboard.
14:13.44sunweaverurghh....
14:13.47merlin1991touch + keyboard
14:13.51sunweaverok, that's hardware specific.
14:13.52DocScrutinizer05uh? we got proper hw kbd! ;-)
14:13.58sunweaverright, N900 has a keyboard.
14:14.05sunweaverbut can do without...
14:14.29sunweaverso, but basically, there is nothing hardware specific I can see in the generic concept.
14:14.44merlin1991regarding the screen size though, there is a project that changed hildon-desktop so that it is resolution independend
14:14.58sunweaverI know, Cordia. But they are dead.
14:15.01DocScrutinizer05bottom line: don't bring Hildon to debian, since it's already there (fremantle == debian special). Bring new debian stuff to fremantle
14:15.03sunweaverit seems
14:15.29sunweaverDocScrutinizer05: how about finding a way to automize that?
14:15.57DocScrutinizer05tlak about that to the specialists, pali, freemangordon, FatPhil, jonwil
14:16.03DocScrutinizer05merlin1991
14:16.14sunweaverok.
14:16.32sunweaveranyone of the mentioned persons, I am happy to gain feedback on the above ^^^^
14:16.44DocScrutinizer05I'm just the spiritus rector
14:16.56DocScrutinizer05and even that is arguable ;-)
14:20.35DocScrutinizer05but, for example, don't even start to think about bringing systemd to fremantle, just because debian seems to import that shite now ;-P
14:21.23DocScrutinizer05for Meo900 the goal is to stay binary-compatible to all the existing N900 apps
14:21.28DocScrutinizer05Neo900 even
14:21.57DocScrutinizer05we don't want to start a new "distro" for that hw platform
14:22.49DocScrutinizer05the applealing thing is exactly the proven OS and the wealth of existing apps (though  many of them are not actively maintained anymore, but still work just fine)
14:23.48DocScrutinizer05and osme of the core apps are ~closed and thus never will get ported to any new distro, no matter how similar
14:23.55DocScrutinizer05some*
14:24.21DocScrutinizer05we want to keep those, since they are really fundamental for the fremantle UX
14:25.19sunweaverack
14:25.49DocScrutinizer05until somebody conmes up with a FOSS implementation of calendar, contacts, dialer, notifictions, conversations, telepathy, *all* of that nicely integrated, we can't move on with fremantle to a new "distro"
14:27.20DocScrutinizer05waves
14:27.23DocScrutinizer05have to run
14:27.27DocScrutinizer05l8rs
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15:46.27DocScrutinizer51damn, O2-germany has general connectivy issues, allegedly thanks to strom
15:47.04DocScrutinizer51storm that is
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16:35.38sixwheeledbeastFOSS calendar is in progress.
17:14.12DocScrutinizer05nice
17:17.59sixwheeledbeastit's qt from the same dev that maintains OMP.
17:18.41sixwheeledbeastStill work to be done but I am using it day to day with no obvious issues.
17:44.06DocScrutinizer05will it work with all the apps that depend on its API? like e.g. Fahrplan, to create tasks/appointments from a train schedule?
17:44.15DocScrutinizer05SMS?
17:44.19DocScrutinizer05mail?
17:45.58sixwheeledbeasthttp://wiki.maemo.org/Qalendar
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