No worries. I need to take a look at gettting hildon-desktop running first anyway before I start worrying about the rest. Everything just taking longer at the moment due to repeating illness, probably from the stress at work.

I'm going to take a look at adding some support for the DESKTOP_SESSION, XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP or XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment settings in hildon-desktop. Just needs to be set at runtime to allow apps to detect running desktop environment. For now it has no use but going forward it will help should I look at making hildon-menu integrated into a GtkHeaderBar for testing hildon in non hildon-desktop enviroments (weston-based, mutter-based etc.)