This is so glorious to see I can barely restrain myself from riddling this mail with expletives.
When I finally extract my finger from taking a core sample, I will investigate the use of this on the Raspberry Pi, where Qt Wayland already hums merrily. Cheerio, Donald On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Pier Luigi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to share with you my work on a Wayland compositor and desktop > shell made with QtQuick and QtCompositor and is using a set of components > for QML to draw panels and widgets. > > You can find some screenshots from the Google+ page: > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106410682256187719404/106410682256187719404 > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106410682256187719404/albums/5746843650891290529 > > The compositor is called Green Island and it's part of Hawaii a desktop > environment developed with Wayland in mind for (but not limited to) Maui, a > Linux distribution for desktop computing. > > The idea behind Maui is to avoid traditional packages, the system provides a > minimal image with kernel, systemd, connman and other core programs, the > desktop environment and its dependencies and it's built from a set of git > repositories from master or specific branches. Applications will be > installed from bundles. > > Modules for the Maui distribution are here: > > https://github.com/mauios > > Modules for the Hawaii desktop are here: > > https://github.com/hawaii-desktop > > You can find the code for Green Island on Github: > > https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/greenisland > > Hawaii can be built and used in other Linux distributions too, this is why > it has a dedicated Github page. > > At the moment my activity is focused on Hawaii, more precisely I'm > implementing some of the ideas me and the designers had. > The efforts undertaken recently will result in the release of the first > development version soon. > > Green Island has a desktop shell but a different shell may be loaded through > plugins for example one may write a dedicated UI for tablets, this is > because I feel that a UI should be made for each device and form factor in > order to take advantage of its peculiarities like screen size and input > devices. > > More screenshots will be published during this week and Arch Linux packages > for x86_64 are almost ready. > > If you want to try it you don't have to wait for packages, to build the > desktop from sources there's this repository: > > https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/hawaii > > it fetches all git submodules and lets you build all the software in the > right order provided that you have satisfied the dependencies (CMake 2.8.9+, > Mesa, Qt 5, libxkbcommon, Wayland 0.95). > > Due to qtwayland requirements you need specific libxkbcommon and wayland > versions until the port to the stable API is over: > > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtwayland/blobs/master/libxkbcommon_sha1.txt > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtwayland/blobs/master/wayland_sha1.txt > > This project is still young and needs your contributions, if you believe > that a lightweight desktop environment and yet powerful, with attention to > details and usability is possible this is a project you most certainly would > want to take a look at. Green Island could also become the reference > Qt-based compositor with your help. > > -- > Out of the box experience > http://www.maui-project.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
