Wayland Nemo VM Image

Intro

Hello guys :) It's faenil here,

I've been looking into making a Qt4-free, Wayland based i486 VM Nemomobile image... so that we can start porting core Nemo apps to Qt5 and, when all apps are ported to Qt5 harmattan components, start looking into QtQuickControls for Nemo's upcoming Glacier UI :)

Big thanks to Stskeeps and everyone who helped me in this project so far :)

Current status

After few days of hacking, we have a Nemo Wayland image ready! \o/

It's very basic, it boots to a QML Wayland compositor and uses the work-in-progress Qt5 version of the current Nemo homescreen ;) It should be enough to proceed to the next step: porting core Nemo apps to Qt5/QtQuick2!

You can find the status of current Nemo apps ports on the Qt5 ports page!

We need help porting apps! Most of the apps are already using Harmattan QML components (com.nokia.meego), so the porting work shouldn't take a lot of time ;)

Please join us and give a hand! :)

More details on the Qt5 ports page

If you want to help me, please do not hesitate to come to #nemomobile (freenode IRC) and talk to me :) (nickname: faenil)

== Qt4/Qt5 middleware matrix

Here you can see which Qt4 middleware has been replaced in the Wayland in Nemo, and what replaced it.

Qt4 package	Qt5 package
commhistory-daemon	nemo:devel has Qt5 (same name)
connman-qt	connman-qt5
connman-qt-declarative	connman-qt5-declarative
contactsd	nemo:devel has Qt5 (same name)
contextkit	Aard: "stays for now, we'll slowly replace the contextkit providers by native statefs plugins"
contextkit-plugin-cellular	Same as contextkit
contextkit-plugin-connman	Same as contextkit
contextkit-plugin-mce	Same as contextkit
contextkit-plugin-upower	Same as contextkit
kcalcore	kcalcore-qt5 (mer:qt:devel)
libaccounts-qt	libaccounts-qt5 (mer:qt:devel)
libcommhistory	libcommhistory-qt5
libcommhistory-declarative	libcommhistory-qt5-declarative
libcommhistory-tools	libcommhistory-qt5-tools
libcontentaction	libcontentaction-qt5
libdbus-qeventloop	(part of libresourceqt)
libdeclarative-connectivity	Qt5-qtdeclarative-*
libdeclarative-gallery	Qt5-*
libdeclarative-location	Qt5-*
libdeclarative-multimedia	Qt5-*
libdeclarative-organizer	Qt5-*
libdeclarative-systeminfo	Qt5-*
libiodata	libiodata-qt5
libmeegotouch	GET RID OF IT?
libmeegotouch-l10n-en	GET RID OF IT?
libmlocale	libmlocale-qt5
libngf-qt	libngf-qt5
libofono-qt	libqofono-qt5
libqmfclient1	libqmfclient1-qt5
libqmfmessageserver1	libqmfmessageserver1-qt5
libqtconnectivity1	Qt5-*
libqtcontacts1	Qt5-*
libqtcore4	Qt5-*
libqtdbus4	Qt5-*
libqtdeclarative4	Qt5-*
libqtdeclarative4-folderlistmodel	Qt5-*
libqtdesigner4	Qt5-*
libqtgallery1	Qt5-*
libqtgui4	Qt5-*
libqtlocation1	Qt5-*
libqtmultimediakit1	Qt5-*
libqtnetwork4	Qt5-*
libqtopengl4	Qt5-*
libqtorganizer1	Qt5-*
libqtscript4	Qt5-*
libqtsensors1	Qt5-*
libqtserviceframework1	Qt5-*
libqtsparql	Qt5-*
libqtsparql-tracker	Qt5-*
libqtsparql-tracker-direct	Qt5-*
libqtsql4	Qt5-*
libqtsql4-sqlite	Qt5-*
libqtsvg4	Qt5-*
libqtsysteminfo1	Qt5-*
libqttest4	Qt5-*
libqtversit1	Qt5-*
libqtversitorganizer1	Qt5-*
libqtwebkit4	Qt5-*
libqtwebkit-qmlwebkitplugin	Qt5-*
libqtxml4	Qt5-*
libqtxmlpatterns4	Qt5-*
libresourceqt	libresourceqt-qt5
libsignon-glib	required for the telepathy-accounts bridge
libsignon-qt	libsignon-qt5
lipstick	lipstick-qt5
lipstick-colorful-home	lipstick-colorful-home-qt5
lipstick-tools	lipstick-qt5-tools
maliit-qt4	maliit-framework-*
	maliit-plugins-*
mapplauncherd-booster-qtcomponents	mapplauncherd-booster-qtcomponents-qt5
mapplauncherd-qt	mapplauncherd-qt5
meegotouch-compositor	GET RID OF IT?
meegotouch-compositor-gestures	GET RID OF IT?
meegotouch-demos	GET RID OF IT?
meegotouch-demos-l10n	GET RID OF IT?
meegotouch-systemui	GET RID OF IT?
meegotouch-theme	GET RID OF IT?
mkcal	mkcal-qt5
mlite	mlite-qt5
mthemedaemon	GET RID OF IT?
nemo-qml-plugin-accounts	nemo-qml-plugin-accounts-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-configuration	nemo-qml-plugin-configuration-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-contacts	nemo-qml-plugin-contacts-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-contacts-tools	nemo-qml-plugin-contacts-qt5-tools
nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit	nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-dbus	nemo-qml-plugin-dbus-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-email	nemo-qml-plugin-email-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-folderlistmodel	PORTED BUT NEED Qt5 PACKAGING
nemo-qml-plugin-messages-internal	nemo-qml-plugin-messages-internal-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-signon	nemo-qml-plugin-signon-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings	NO Qt5 PORT YET
nemo-qml-plugin-thumbnailer	nemo-qml-plugin-thumbnailer-qt5
nemo-qml-plugin-time	nemo-qml-plugin-time-qt5
PackageKit-qt	PackageKit-Qt5
qca	GET RID OF IT? Only used by meepasswords
qca-ossl	GET RID OF IT? Only used by meepasswords
qjson	GET RID OF IT? (should be included in Qt5?)
qmsystem	qmsystem-qt5
qt-components	qt-components-qt5
sensorfw	sensorfw-qt5
sensorfw-configs	same sensorfw-qt5 package?
signon	big package providing signon-daemon and libsignon, ported to qt5
statefs-contextkit-provider	compatibility layer, exposing statefs via contextkit API
statefs-contextkit-subscriber-qt4	bridge to load qt4 contextkit providers into statefs, and provide them to qt5 applications via statefs interface
telepathy-accounts-signon	telepathy-accounts bridge
telepathy-qt4	telepathy-qt5
timed	timed-qt5
tracker	Stays. NO Qt5 PORT AT THE MOMENT
tracker-utils	Stays. NO Qt5 PORT AT THE MOMENT
voicecall	voicecall-qt5
voicecall-ui-reference	GET RID OF IT?