Can you tell us what is working/not-working. Can you connect to wifi? Any phone activity? Can you launch meego dialer and/or use any meego components? I guess I can answer this later when I get home too. I am curious if a mashup of meego and cordia can get us a useable device......

There is also a cordia-backgrounds-0.1-4.2.DE.noarch.rpm package...
And a faenza-icon-theme-d2v6x24-3.2.DE.noarch.rpm
package...
I tried to install every package (armv7hl&noarch) at: /smoku:/cordia/Project_DE_Trunk_standard/
repository but ended up X not starting...
Maybe you have more luck as there are several new versions...

Thank you for keeping testing

For background to work you need to start hildon-home.

Would I just type 'hildon-home' in xterm as normal user?

I was able to copy my custom diivil theme (overwriting marina), transitions and default nokia fonts to meego - looking a bit more like it should now with normal fonts in Application Launcher, though the textmsize is a bit smaller
Some programs not showing icons, and some not appearing at all in comparison to default ux.. guessing they don't have a .desktop entry?

Titles of launched programs appear in Times-Roman (or similar) font, in grey colour toward the left side of the nav bar. Waiting animation appears correct. I guess hildon-status-menu isn't working yet to display time or mobile operator?

Does MeeGo have any default method of obtaining screenshots to help me illustrate?

Nice work so far Smoku, will keep posting observations if needed

A bit off the discussion:
Will the N9 be able to run Cordia? Or is the Harmattan UI cloased source? Will there be any UI switcher as in the present MeeGo CE?

I copied my /home/user/.backgrounds folder from the maemo installation to the same location in MeeGo to get wallpapers up on Cordia.

There's a 'NotShowIn' parameter in the .desktop file of the missing applications. eg for xterm it's set to
If you disable the line you can see why in this instance as the xterm screen doesn't render properly and is difficult to use.

Will work.

You need to run it manually also. Similarly to how you run hildon-home.

And you need to install proper status-menu plugins to actually see the time etc.

Operator name is a desktop widget I think. Which you of course need to install. ;-)

To make file transfers between Maemo and MeeGo easier, is there a way to mount the MeeGo filesystem in Maemo?

The N9 should be able to run Cordia. It uses MeeGo APIs and Cordia is intended to run on MeeGo. The Harmattan UI is closed source.