Hi Pierre-Eric,
During summer 2014 I had a GSoc student work on packaging b2g desktop as
a desktop environment for Debian based distributions. The repo is at
https://github.com/r1n3m/b2gian
Overall, I like the idea a lot. I think the priority to get that of the
ground would be:
- finish (or redo) the packaging work. There's a lot of value in being
usable by existing Linux users. Asking people to dedicate a laptop may
be a bit too much initially. Once this is proven to be nice, go full distro.
- implement the missing APIs on desktop. I can think of at least:
P1: network management
P1: power management (suspend/resume etc.)
P1: date & time management
P2: keyboard layouts
P2: bluetooth support
... and probably bunch of other things.
I would not focus on bug 731498 for now. It's very nice and absolutely
the right thing to do, but you can get something up & running
immediately with a X11/gtk build. At least talk to the relevant module
owners first to know if they would consider to take 731498 in m-c.
Fabrice
On 12/17/2015 02:30 AM, Pierre-Eric Pelloux wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm starting an exploratory project: using b2g on a laptop machine
> (think Chromebook).
>
> I plan to use bug 731498 as a starting point for basically
> implementing Gonk for a non-Android Linux.
> After updating/rebasing these patches I believe some of them could
> even be merged.
>
> This work could also be used as a test bed for the ideas shown in
> Orlando presentation "The Future of Gonk".
>
> Thoughts?
> (feel free to ping me to discuss this, irc nick: pepp)
>
> Pierre-Eric
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