I've started to actually use my debian freerunner as an actual phone!
Some issues:
- is it possible to have zhone not lock the screen? its just inconvenient.
- is it possible to have zhone jump to the top of the window stack on an
incoming call? I normally run tangogps, zhone and emacs, under the
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Leonti Bielski wrote:
But what about PIM stack?
There is a project from GSOC, but it's either dead or just being
developed really slow. What if some time OM is spending on ASU get to
develop PIM stack for FSO? Or even make a 0.9 release of FSO even
earlier as
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Imho this should be a key point. It's quite obvious that a good PIM
stack is vital for a portable device.
Have you considered using akonadi? The KDE guys are quite approachable
and IMHO they have done their homework with akonadi. You
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This is a song about a whale,
No! This is a song about being happy!
That's right! It's the Happy Happy Joy Joy song!
Happy Happy Joy Joy
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My 1/50th of a dollar...
A lot of people have made some really good points and suggestions here.
Here's what I'd like to see personally, in order of priority, with
absolutely no consideration given to feasability or difficulty what I
want ;) :
1. rock-solid phone / sms functionality, with
Also if I don't use KDE, I'd like to see akonadi as Pim managed...
Our mission must to be to don't replicate the work done by other people,
and KDE person did a good job
Florian Hackenberger wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Imho this should be a key point.
2008/10/16 John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Like Wolfgang said in
http://n2.nabble.com/Weekly-Engineering-News-41-2008-td1336450.html
We assembled a team to focus on improving the user experience. Here
is our todo list at the moment:
* Reduce boot time.
Low priority, if the phone is
Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
I bought myself a 4Gb uSD card and decided to have a go at moving the
(full) 512Mb partition onto it, using
http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Drive_Backup_And_Cloning
as my reference. I backed up the 512Mb with no problem. The 4Gb card
was not recognised,
- is it possible to have zhone not lock the screen? its just
inconvenient.
i looked it up in code and simply commented the part -- it's a while ago,
though, and i don't remember exactly, where it was (/usr/bin/zhone i think)
- is it possible to have zhone jump to the top of the window
Does someone know how to use .osm files with tangoGPS ?
Because lots of countries seem ready to be downloaded here :
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
If it's not possible I think I will use osmtiles ;)
http://www.millions.ca/~stacy/osmtiles.tgz
Xavier.
Thanks for sharing. Dillo is great and fast !
Xavier.
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 20:20, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Suspend is quite good at the moment, but when the display is 'blanked'
and the system is not in suspend, maybe pressing the 'power' button
could wake up the screen instead. Now it wakes up and immediately
suspends.
Hi all,
My thoughts on this (as a software dev that hasn't yet got into the
freerunner software development, despite best intentions) -
1. Basic phone functions:
It needs to work as a phone, currently it doesn't wake up from suspend in
time for more than 2 rings before the other party is
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it :)
BillK
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 09:53 +0200, Florian Hackenberger wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Marco Trevisan
Hi,
thanks for your help to collecting all the critical problems, it's helpful. :)
For more clear picture, we creat a page in our wiki to clean it up.
Please go to this page :
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Improving_user_experience
You can vote to those issues or add other critical problems.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 13:12, Wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
thanks for your help to collecting all the critical problems, it's helpful.
:)
For more clear picture, we creat a page in our wiki to clean it up.
Please go to this page :
How does one vote? - even created an account but nothing shows up to
enable input.
The list seems odd considering the number and type of responses Ive
seen? - nothing about being able to reliably receive SMS messages,
nothing about being able to make/receive phone calls which were
mentioned a
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Xavier Cremaschi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does someone know how to use .osm files with tangoGPS ?
Because lots of countries seem ready to be downloaded here :
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
Tango doesn't use the .osm files (yet?), but Navit does...
William Kenworthy:
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it :)
Yes, the do indeed use MySQL!
Regards, Mark Weinem
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:54:47AM -0700, Gothnet wrote:
Given 2 and 3, a quicker boot time would be nice, but if we could fix the
things that mean I have to boot it so often it would be helpful.
I can't help much in the other things we'd all like to happen, but after
a cursory (and cursing)
Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load...
Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare image
that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any way.
Make it easy to update sources, and easy to build both kernel and
userland stuff, and also to
I think the phone is getting quite usable, and well there is a long road ahead
I don't think anybody should feel bad about how far it has come.
Recent post on engadget re: RIM's Bold.
ptrcd003 @ Oct 17th 2008 1:08AM
tell me about it. Crappy GPS that rarely, if ever, works (triangulation
Christ van Willegen wrote:
Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load...
Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare image
that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any way.
Make it easy to update sources, and easy to build both kernel
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it :)
Yes, the do indeed use MySQL!
well, if it is supposed to be a part of kde, the use case is clearly a
desktop
Hi,
I'm new to QT and Dbus and I want to establish a simple connection to Gypsy. I
looked at the Code of Kbluetooth
http://kdebluetooth.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1:0.1-0ubuntu1/obexsession_8cpp-source.html
and tried to port it to my intensions. But unfortunately it didnt't work.
Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 14:13:28 schrieb arne anka:
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it :)
Yes, the do indeed use MySQL!
well, if it is
On Friday 17 October 2008 14:43:06 Mark Weinem wrote:
Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 14:13:28 schrieb arne anka:
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it
El día Friday, October 17, 2008 a las 02:43:06PM +0200, Mark Weinem escribió:
Am Freitag 17 Oktober 2008 14:13:28 schrieb arne anka:
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively
To Rui and all others interested in bootime improvement:
A bootchart is available at:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Alessandro
--
Minh HA DUONG, Chargé de Recherche, CNRS
CIRED, Centre International de Recherches sur l'Environnement et le
Développement
http://minh.haduong.com
Except vote , you can also put the new item on this table.
William Kenworthy ??:
How does one vote? - even created an account but nothing shows up to
enable input.
The list seems odd considering the number and type of responses Ive
seen? - nothing about being able to reliably receive SMS
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:35:06 +0800, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
How does one vote? - even created an account but nothing shows up to
enable input.
Once you've logged in, each page has a new 'edit' link at the top of the
content. Click it and get the wiki page editor.
What
Minh Ha Duong schrieb:
To Rui and all others interested in bootime improvement:
A bootchart is available at:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:Alessandro
i disabled my boot splash screen that saved me 10 seconds of boot time.
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ha scritto:
Vasco Névoa wrote:
Thanks Treviño!
However, qpe complains of binary compatibility:
Coult not load /opt/Qtopia/plugins/phonevendors/libficgta01vendor.so
errorString() The plugin
'/opt/Qtopia/plugins/phonevendors/libficgta01vendor.so' uses
Have you thought about applying any of the fast-boot mods that were slashdotted
recently? One thing that killed the boot time of desktop linux was the usb
subsystem. OM is probally doing the similar things.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/02/1933206from=rss
-Original
William Kenworthy wrote:
Did a quick google but couldnt figure out what it uses as storage.
Hopefully not a relational database - they have their uses and qtopia
has conclusively proven this is *NOT* it :)
Well, I don't really know what Akonadi is using, but when I installed it
in my ubuntu
wow -- now I've tried it -- it is indeed fast!!! it is minimal and
doesn't render some crappy pages (like mine ;-)) but it feels faster
on FR than firefox on my desktop ;-)
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Xavier Cremaschi wrote:
Thanks for sharing. Dillo is great and fast !
Xavier.
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On 16/10/08 16:52:10, Andy Green wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| (The first message I sent does not seem to have arrived)
| On 12/10/08 18:00:55, Andy Green wrote:
| Yes always-on MPU can deliver consistent power behaviours we can't
do
| in
| our current way of relying
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Dale Maggee [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
2. This also comes into the 'daily use phone' category: the echo /
volume issues. Since settings which work for some people don't seem to
work for others, I think that one way to sort this out might be to
create a
==Pim device==
I would like to use my FR as a PIM device, managing my communications,
events and so on.
So this is my main issue as a user.
Another thing that could improve the user experience would be a PC utility
to manage the device:
- ability to know the charge level from PC;
- easy file
==Pim device==
imho that's exactly the kind of task openmoko did _not_ ask for.
there are a lot of posts lately completely ignoring the point of basics
and no eyecandy -- if the list in the wiki develops the same way it's
plain useless.
pim frinst is at it's best part of a middle tier, but
Great part, I installed it manually and it runs pretty fast. Greate.
christian
Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 21:41 -0400 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko:
Just wanted to share,
that Dillo was featured in the recent LWN http://lwn.net/Articles/303502/
Lightweight, Linux-compatible browser
Hi,
Thanks for starting this page. It's on my list but I'm too slow. I
would like to use it to reflect the latest status, so it will be
better if we *only* do the the discussion here on the mailing list in
the 'Back to the basics' thread. In the meantime, the current todo
list there was NOT
On Friday 17 October 2008 14:27:51 Michael Tansella wrote:
QDBusConnection dbusconn =
dbus-connectToBus(QDBusConnection::SessionBus, dbus);
Service = org.freedesktop;
I found 1 error, it must be SystemBus instead of SessionBus. But unfortunately
I still cannot establish a connection.
As soon
What step am I missing? It does detect my access point because i can
see it's mac address in iwconfig but all packets are dropped when I
try to use ping my access point.
iwconfig eth0 mode managed channel 1
iwconfig eth0 essid madwifi
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
ifconfig eth0 up
2008/10/17 Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What step am I missing? It does detect my access point because i can
see it's mac address in iwconfig but all packets are dropped when I
try to use ping my access point.
iwconfig eth0 mode managed channel 1
iwconfig eth0 essid madwifi
ifconfig eth0
Christ van Willegen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Xavier Cremaschi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does someone know how to use .osm files with tangoGPS ?
Because lots of countries seem ready to be downloaded here :
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
Tango doesn't use the .osm files
Ever since I started to connect my FR to my desktop computer and set up
USB-networking, I'm noticing that I regularly get spurious middle clicks
(and/or right clicks), as if some spurious USB messages were sent from
my FR that looked like messages coming from my mouse (or touchpad, or
trackpoint,
×Nö~˪|ç_=ÛtÛnõÓ_4Ó
rotate
Description: Binary data
/* -*- tab-width:4; c-basic-offset:4 -*-
* rotate.c -- determine Freerunner orientation.
* Author -- Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
* This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 14:02 +0200, Mark Weinem wrote:
Yes, the do indeed use MySQL!
The follow-up question to that is: Does it really _need_ MySQL, or does
it just use the convenience of an SQL back-end?
If it just needs SQL, then it could be altered to use SQLite. If it
requires MySQL, then
Hi,
thx a lot for this nice app, I think I will leave my idesk conf for it.
Is there a way to :
- use right-hand entry for making a menu switcher
- making defaults sizes when auxlaunch starts (fullscreen-like ?)
- use aux botton for hide/unhide auxlaunch
and how to get your top level icones
It gives the correct routing but the problem is i am not getting
responses back when i try to ping the gateway.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/17 Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What step am I missing? It does detect my access point because i can
see
2008/10/17 Xavier Cremaschi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does someone know how to use .osm files with tangoGPS ?
Because lots of countries seem ready to be downloaded here :
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/
you can't use the .osm file with tango
they are text files, that need to be processed by a
Thanks! i just followed the wiki of xfce on debian for: openbox, fluxbox,
icewm... i really love them, but it's impossible to make the right click
work there (i think this is because i still cannot access as a normal user
but just as root... don't know why...)
very soon news
d
On Thu, Oct 16,
I used kdepimpi on my Linux Zaurus and found it very full-featured. I
primarily used the datebook app.
I keep hoping someone with more skill and time than I will port it to
FR. It was built on top of Qtopia so it shouldn't be that formidable
a task.
-- Craig
(i finally ordered and received a Freerunner :) )
Lothar Behrens a écrit :
Hi,
I got installed navit and after some tries I got the correct
germany.bin file by downloading it with a wget -O germany.bin ...
quicklink.
For a brief feedback: Very good !
Thanks :)
A longer 'play with it':
This is pretty sweet
http://vimeo.com/1981300?pg=embedsec=1981300
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
Michele Renda wrote:
Someone know something about this? (Midori):
a) How to remove the string: you are using a root account (without
creating a non root account)
I had made a patch
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:10:12 +0200, Christ van Willegen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps another idea to lighten the core developers' load...
Invest a little time (a day or so?) to properly set up a VMWare image
that can be downloaded by developers that want to help in any way.
Make it
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