GSoC 2010: Transifex client (Looking for ideas and feedback)
Hello guys, I am Lauri Võsandi and I am participating on GSoC this year under Maemo. My project is Transifex mobile client for Maemo. More information about the project can be found in this blog post: http://v6sa.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/tx-mobile/ I just set up Git repostiory, more information about it here: http://v6sa.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/transifex-mobile-git-repository/ Most importantly I am looking for community input to make this project a killer-app for Maemo! -- Lauri Võsandi tel: +372 53329412 e-mail: lauri.vosa...@gmail.com university: Estonian IT College please share: http://windows7sins.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: git over ssh access for garage projects - calling for brave testers
Alberto Mardegan wrote: Ferenc Szekely wrote: If you had a few minutes to spare please check it out and let me know your findings. We may have some bugs here and there, so let's find and fix them together. I get this: ma...@portatie:/tmp$ git clone ssh://drop.maemo.org/git/maemo-mapper Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/maemo-mapper/.git/ fatal: ''/git/maemo-mapper'': unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Hi Ferenc, any news on this? I already had my SSH keys (and I can upload to extras, so I guess they are correct), but I still get the error above. Ciao, Alberto -- http://blog.mardy.it - geek in un lingua international! ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: QT Packages, Repositories and PR1.2
I'll wait a little longer for this to get resolved, but if it takes too long I just might ebay my n900 and go Android. You can also compile it yourself and create your own repository ... easier to manage, and do the trick ... and switch back to the maemo repository again when everythings will be fixed. -- Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Software - http://khertan.net/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Paid apps in OVI for N900
Hay, I never got contact to OVI Store. At the moment there are no paid apps. Does anybody know about the status. Does anybody know, how to display only non-free applications from extras (on the web, as I do not own a N900)? I could not find any search option. Thanks a lot Detlef ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.
I've moved the blog to http://juhanagsoc.wordpress.com/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
RE: QT Packages, Repositories and PR1.2
Attila, Hate to be the bearer of bad news :( What we managed to agree for the PR1.2 release is that development releases starting with PR1.2 will not be called libqt4-maemo5 as it's not that obvious that it's *really* just a version for testing, prone to breakage and not necessarily the exact one that will end up in the next PR. Future releases will sport the 'experimental' moniker (f.e. libqt4-experimental, python-qt4-experimental) so it's more clear that it (and stuff depending on it) are not meant to be promoted to end users. Not ideal, but hopefully will reduce confusion until a better solution is found that is acceptable for both Nokia and the community. I started this subject after reading the post by Venemo (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52442) so I decided that a good way to close it would be to add a post there (page 4). Having threads like that out in the open and our exchange of emails remind me of why I wanted the n900 so badly. It is a pretty unique device and even more unique community. I hope we can manage to make it more of a mass market product so nokia can justify maintaining it but, at the same time, I would hate to have to give in this geek feeling to it. Thanks again, Felipe ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: QT Packages, Repositories and PR1.2
Le 22 mai 2010 06:15, Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net a écrit : I'll wait a little longer for this to get resolved, but if it takes too long I just might ebay my n900 and go Android. You can also compile it yourself and create your own repository ... easier to manage, and do the trick ... and switch back to the maemo repository again when everythings will be fixed. I've already made packages available through the garage, but there are several problems with doing this : * No way to promote packages past extras-devel. * Asking non-technical users to start adding repos should be discouraged due to security and stability issues. Having a community reviewed repo is a great thing, if it actually worked as intended. * I don't want users to have to look through the web to install an app, it should be listed in the phone's manager. * Fragmenting apps is a sure way to lose out against iPhone and Android which do have centralized app managers. Granted, deployment is not stopped, but going out of our way as developers to also be package managers is a little silly IMO. Nokia's expertise as a hardware maker but not a software publisher has been showing itself lately ... - ianaré sévi ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
business - quick break from coding
This is probably the best place to talk about this once being a developer most of the time also implies somehow getting paid to develop software. I wanted the n900 because I wanted to fully control my phone but also because I thought it could be a good platform to develop commercial (or at least business) applications. I hope the second argument was not just some fake reasoning I created to justify me buying it. :-) I imagine a lot of people on this list are somehow sponsored by nokia (and/or other companies) trough sponsoring open source projects. I am curious to know if there is anybody (or any software company) trying to use the maemo/n900 platform to develop software to be sold to consumers and/or companies. From time to time we see someone complaining about Ovi store not selling applications but I haven't seen anything about software being developed as some business solution. The openness of the platform, the flexibility and the great community around it makes it, in my opinion, a good candidate for business oriented applications. Of course, companies, especially medium and big ones, will resist adopting a platform that is not mass market but smaller companies with very unique needs probably won't have as much of a problem (if they have some guarantee that the investment will not be wasted by the platform being discontinued). The Qt movement gives me even more hope because we can offer some more wiggle room for companies by offering different devices. The meego initiative could prove to make the platform even more interesting. I have some issues with Qt but the code once run everywhere is really appealing to me. I have developed software for target platforms for too long and, soon or later, you need/want to move to a different platform and have to start over. I have used JAVA/C# for many solutions but still can't buy that an intermediary language/generic can run as quick or as native as native/machine code, especially on mobile devices with limited resources and unique architectures. Comments? Now, back to coding.. Felipe ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
GTK+ question with maemo 2.2
Hi, I am using Maemo 2.2 (Gregale) to develop a program on N770 (sorry I don't have resources to upgrade to N800/900 yet.) . So far so good until I start to use GtkScaleButton and GtkVolumeButton. It seems that maemo 2.2 came with GTK+ 2.6 which does not support GtkScaleButton and GtkVolumeButton. My question is: can I upgrade GTK+ to newer versions (2.10 and up) and still use maemo 2.2 (and scratchbox of course) to develop programs for N770? will that cause any issues? Thanks. Han ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
