Google's Open Source Mobile Platform
Hi all, Google's Open Source Mobile Platform : As expected, today Google took the wraps off of the gPhone (as the media have for months been referring to the rumored project). Google is "leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers," and will be licensing its software to all comers on an open source basis under the Apache license. (The Wall Street Journal's Ben Worthen demonstrates a miserable grasp of what "open source" means.) Google's US partners include Nextel and Sprint, but not AT&T nor Verizon. Phones will be available in the second half of 2008 — not the spring as earlier reports had speculated. News.com's analysis warns that Google won't take over the mobile market overnight, though they quote Forrester in the opinion that Google may be one of the three biggest mobile players after several years of shakeout. >From : http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/11/06/0223211.shtml Also for more info http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/press_releases.html http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/press_110507.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wheres-my-gphone.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Phone http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/10-questions-about-google-phone.html http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/05/139210&from=rss http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139293-c,pdacellphonehybrids/article.html http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=e2c539e8-524a-418f-aee2-22578a0f6b65&&Headline=Bharti+to+partner+Google+Phone http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.htm Interesting stuff !!! Now I just want to know who will win ??? Qutopia , Open Moko , Moblin or Andriod ??? I think FOSS will win !!! -- Regards Amit. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
FW: hildon-desktop statubar.conf file
fyi. Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Em Seg, 2007-10-15 às 16:27 -0700, ext Spencer, Bob escreveu: >> >> When we add new statusbar plugins we're required to append an entry >> to /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf . We don't want the plugin >> pkg to edit these files owned by hildon-desktop but it is >> inconvenient to go back and update hildon-desktop project each time >> a new plugin is made. We're looking for a good way to allow new >> plugin packages to be installed and visible in the statusbar without >> having to modify hildon-desktop. One suggestion was to use some >> folder like statusbar.d (similar to /etc/apt/sources.list.d) for >> additional configuration additions. Another was to just have some >> entry in /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf like [*] which would put >> all the /usr/share/hildon-status-bar/* plugins not already listed. >> >> This scenario may also be desireable for any container where plugin >> order and size are not required. >> Bob > > Do you mean that you want new statusbar plugins to be automatically > loaded? If so, you can just add "X-Load-New-Plugins=1" to your > Statubar container section in desktop.conf. > > Let me know if I missed something. > > Cheers! > > --lucasr -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
FW: hildon-desktop statubar.conf file
fyi. Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi, > > Em Ter, 2007-10-16 às 14:14 +0300, ext Lucas Rocha escreveu: >> Hi Bob, >> >> Em Seg, 2007-10-15 às 16:27 -0700, ext Spencer, Bob escreveu: >>> >>> When we add new statusbar plugins we're required to append an entry >>> to /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf . We don't want the plugin >>> pkg to edit these files owned by hildon-desktop but it is >>> inconvenient to go back and update hildon-desktop project each time >>> a new plugin is made. We're looking for a good way to allow new >>> plugin packages to be installed and visible in the statusbar without >>> having to modify hildon-desktop. One suggestion was to use some >>> folder like statusbar.d (similar to /etc/apt/sources.list.d) for >>> additional configuration additions. Another was to just have some >>> entry in /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf like [*] which would put >>> all the /usr/share/hildon-status-bar/* plugins not already listed. >>> >>> This scenario may also be desireable for any container where plugin >>> order and size are not required. >>> Bob >> >> Do you mean that you want new statusbar plugins to be automatically >> loaded? If so, you can just add "X-Load-New-Plugins=1" to your >> Statubar container section in desktop.conf. > > I forgot to mention two things that might be useful for you: > > 1) If you want to keep the order of what's defined in statusbar.conf > when syncing, just add "X-Is-Ordered=1" as well in your Statusbar > section in desktop.conf. > > 2) If you want to enforce a certain set of plugins in any of your > desktop containers, you can write a UI policy for them. You reference > a UI policy for a desktop container with the "X-UI-Policy" key. Have > a look at the "policies" directory in hildon-desktop source tree for > some examples. > > I hope it helps. > > --lucasr -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Image for a generic i386-based appliance
Dear Sirs, I am trying to find my way to take advantage of your progresses in UME and build a generic image suitable for an appliance type of system, built on a generic PC platform. Requirements are: * fast boot * read-only root (somehow upgradeable), user writable home folders * resilient to power cutoffs * full X+OpenGL graphic capabilities - chipset to be chosen among Intel/NVidia/Ati Being the target a media center, large disk drives and high-power CPUs (to compensate the lack of GPU-assisted video decoding) are expected. Does the current tools and packages allow the target image to be built with MIC, provided that a custom set of packages/fsets is identified? Would you kindly provide any help on that? For sake of completeness, the inquiry is related to the following open-source project: http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Linux_port_project Best regards Luigi Capriotti -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
