Re: meta-gnome

Re: meta-gnome

[Andreas Müller]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:46 PM, raiatea <raiatea@ymail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
Hi Raiatea,

I put meta-openembedded mailing list in CC - there are more people who
might help you.
>
> I'm a beginner so the question might be stupid.
Don't think so :)
> I found your email in the readme of meta-openembedded-sumo as layer
> maintainer.
As far as I can remember, I am maintainer on meta-xfce a layer within
meta-openembedded - but never mind.
>
> I'm using an Ultra96 board with a Xilinx Zynq, Xilinx provides the tool
> Petalinux based on Yocto.
> I would like to use a window manager but things are evolving:
>  - Sato/Matchbox is too simple for my need
>  - elf (Enlightenment) has been removed
>  - Xfce could be fine
My personal favourite - use it most: A classic desktop with many
features/plugins/configurations. It is fast on weak hardware and does
not need graphic acceleration.
>  - Gnome : I don't clearly see if all required files are present
>
> In pyro: 49 recipes including gnome-session/-settings...
> I don't know if this is enought for a complete install, but it is more than
> what is present in rocko and sumo:
>
> In rocko : 35 recipes, without session...
> In sumo: 25 recipes, without session...
>
> I think the last Xilinx tool of 2018.2 is using sumo, so meta-gnome is
> uncomplete (a previous version used pyro and had efl, but I would like to
> use the last tools if possible). Maybe things are elsewhere.
>
> Could you tell me how I can manage meta-gnome for a complete install ?
> Are there packagegroup files for gnome, or should I create them ?
To build a Gnome3 desktop many recipes missing in meta-gnome. Few
years ago we had Gnome2 desktop working but it never made it to
Gnome3. Many recipes were removed meanwhile - old sources turned into
maintenance burden. Left over are applications and libraries.

If you are looking for desktop environments and have no problem in
building/using Qt5 [1]: In [2] you find

* kde5/plasma: Very beautiful but hungry of resources of all kinds -
no way without accelerated OpenGL(ES) or on weak machines (CPU/RAM).
* lxqt: Very fast / low memory consumption but a bit lightweight in
features (my opinion)
* lumina: Interesting but appears a bit unfinished to me

All of them work perfectly fine on sumo.

[1] https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5
[2] https://github.com/schnitzeltony/meta-qt5-extra
>
> Best regards,
> Raiatea
>
Hope that helps,

Regards

Andreas