Cordia

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Cordia is an open, community-led, project to bring Maemo's UI (Hildon Desktop and related components) to the MeeGo distribution (http://www.meego.com).
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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 ==
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Our mission is to provide a usable and touch-friendly user interface on MeeGo 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 the current reference MeeGo UXes provide. We wish to use the standard MeeGo distribution to get the widest possible audience for our work. We wish to achieve our goal by the following:
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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
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* Allow seamless MeeGo Qt applications and widgets integration
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* Allow seamless Qt applications and widgets integration
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* Be another “MeeGo instance” (like Harmattan) passing MeeGo Compliance
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or, to put it another way:
or, to put it another way:
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* As much of the Maemo UI as we can get on top of MeeGo.
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* As much of the Maemo UI as we can get outside of Maemo.
== Installation ==
== Installation ==
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== Mer ==
== Mer ==
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Cordia has been re-based on [Mer]http://www.merproject.org
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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.

Contents

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.