Hildon 2.0 Release
Contents
Release notes
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/hildon-list/2008-January/msg00006.html
Info and documentation
See ModuleOverview for a description of the modules.
Changes from previous versions
This page lists the changes from old Hildon (the one included on maemo 3.0 release) to the new Hildon 2.0.
API changes
The new API documentation is at https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/doc/api/index.html
Gtk+ related changes
Old hildon was based on a heavily modified gtk+ 2.6 (maemo-gtk). New Hildon 2.0 relies on maemo-gtk+ 2.10. These pages describe how to port your code from old maemo-gtk 2.6 to maemo-gtk 2.10
Gtk210Overview: General overview of the biggest differences between Maemo GTK+ and upstream:
Gtk210Migration: Detailed guide to port your application from maemo-gtk-2.6 to maemo-gtk-2.10:
Hildon-1 changes
Hildon 2.0 API has been cleaned up
hildon desktop changes
Hildon desktop (previously hildon-af-desktop) was rewritten in a more flexible way. Its interface was changed, see:
Audit tool
hildon-audit is a tool to scan your package and highlight the uses of obsolete symbols/API. See more info in README
Audit tool is also available through sardine.
Related info
To get more information about API changes in the whole maemo distribution for the upcoming maemo 4.0 Chinook release, visit maemo 4.0 Chinook API break and Nokia N800 support.