Cordia
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| - | Cordia is an open, community-led, project to bring Maemo's UI (Hildon Desktop and related components) to the | + | Cordia is an open, community-led, project to bring Maemo's UI (Hildon Desktop and related components) to the Linux-based distributions other than Maemo. |
== Mission Statement == | == Mission Statement == | ||
| - | Our mission is to provide a usable and touch-friendly user interface | + | Our mission is to provide a usable and touch-friendly user interface for tablet devices and phones based on the proven Hildon UI. Our target audience is the people who prefer the Maemo UI, and wish to have a better user experience than other current UXes provide. We wish to achieve our goal by the following: |
* As necessary, work with GTK+ developers and push required changes upstream | * As necessary, work with GTK+ developers and push required changes upstream | ||
* Merge unofficial Hildon Desktop fixes and improvements scattered around the Maemo community and elsewhere | * Merge unofficial Hildon Desktop fixes and improvements scattered around the Maemo community and elsewhere | ||
* Move from GNOME-VFS to GIO | * Move from GNOME-VFS to GIO | ||
| - | * Allow seamless | + | * Allow seamless Qt applications and widgets integration |
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or, to put it another way: | or, to put it another way: | ||
| - | * As much of the Maemo UI as we can get | + | * As much of the Maemo UI as we can get outside of Maemo. |
== Installation == | == Installation == | ||
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== Mer == | == Mer == | ||
| - | Cordia has been re-based | + | Cordia has been re-based from MeeGo to [Mer]http://www.merproject.org |
The first Mer-based alpha release of | The first Mer-based alpha release of | ||
Revision as of 10:27, 17 October 2011
Cordia is an open, community-led, project to bring Maemo's UI (Hildon Desktop and related components) to the Linux-based distributions other than Maemo.
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide a usable and touch-friendly user interface for tablet devices and phones based on the proven Hildon UI. Our target audience is the people who prefer the Maemo UI, and wish to have a better user experience than other current UXes provide. We wish to achieve our goal by the following:
- As necessary, work with GTK+ developers and push required changes upstream
- Merge unofficial Hildon Desktop fixes and improvements scattered around the Maemo community and elsewhere
- Move from GNOME-VFS to GIO
- Allow seamless Qt applications and widgets integration
or, to put it another way:
- As much of the Maemo UI as we can get outside of Maemo.
Installation
A script to facilitate installation instructions can be found here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1044283&postcount=301
Communication
Discuss at #cordia on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net).
If you wish to contribute to the project, read our mission statement above and see our roadmap (http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/cordia:roadmap) for the things we need to get done.
We have a mailing list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to the cordia-dev+subscribe@lists.xiaoka.com address.
Mer
Cordia has been re-based from MeeGo to [Mer]http://www.merproject.org
The first Mer-based alpha release of Cordia for x86 is available at http://cordiahd.org/download/HD/ This is a bootable ISO. Just burn it on CD or put it on the pen-drive and boot it. It gives you options to run LiveCD system, or install to HDD.