Re: Announcing PenguinTV, rss reader and podcast downloader
If you install a lot of OTHER python programs which have official dependencies for dbus and conic under python, they would have already been pulled in on your device. If you start with a freshly flashed tablet, it will contain few if any python modules. If you try to install Penguin TV on an empty tablet, it will not run and fail silently (unless started from xterm where you can see it complain about not finding dbus, conic, whatever). It merely needs to have the python modules it depends upon listed in the dependency section of the control file of the .deb package so the application manager will install those automatically when it installs Penguin TV. There is no problem in the program itself, merely the dependency metadata in the package. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Luca Ognibene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:48 AM, tz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on python2.5-dbus, python2.5-conic They are not pulled in by default. The package installs, but dies silently (unless run from a console). There may be more dependencies but I've already installed a lot of python modules. Strange, it works fine (albeit a lot slow) for me! Which version have you installed? I'm using 3.9.3-1 on diablo. ciao Luca ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: Announcing PenguinTV, rss reader and podcast downloader
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:48 AM, tz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on python2.5-dbus, python2.5-conic They are not pulled in by default. The package installs, but dies silently (unless run from a console). There may be more dependencies but I've already installed a lot of python modules. Strange, it works fine (albeit a lot slow) for me! Which version have you installed? I'm using 3.9.3-1 on diablo. ciao Luca ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Announcing PenguinTV, rss reader and podcast downloader
It depends on python2.5-dbus, python2.5-conic They are not pulled in by default. The package installs, but dies silently (unless run from a console). There may be more dependencies but I've already installed a lot of python modules. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Announcing PenguinTV, rss reader and podcast downloader
I've finally finished the port of my RSS/Podcast software, PenguinTV, to hildon and maemo. The big sticking point was how to package python-gtkmozembed support, but I figured that out and now PenguinTV is on extras-devel for testing and comments. If it seems to work for people, then I'll promote it to extras. Where to find it: extras-devel Here's a quick feature list: * 5-year development history, with workarounds for all sorts of malformed feeds * responsive on maemo even with 100 feeds * local image caching, for viewing feeds even when you don't have an internet connection * support for enclosed media, including video and audio * built-in gstreamer media player that remembers playback position so you can exit and restart where you left off * tagging support for quick access to subsets of your feeds * mostly finger-friendly interface, although I could use some help with this * power-management Good Citizen -- no ticking clocks or running threads unless needed -- leave it running all day Here are some problems: * startup time is really slow right now, and I'm trying to improve it. Since PenguinTV is python-based, most of the time is just starting up python and loading all the modules it needs (which is a lot). Another big chunk of time is loading the glade UI. I would appreciate any help fixing this. * feed updating is very slow, but it is steady and it won't peg the CPU. Feed updates are done at priority 15 to ensure that the device remains responsive and doesn't pop up not responding messages. * penguintv eats a lot of RAM. not much I can do about this. * gtkmozembed doesn't support finger-scrolling. I don't know how to fix this. Please give it a go and let me know what you think! Owen Williams ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
