[maemo-users] Making software installation a bit easier in Maemo
Hi! Currently there are two ways to install new applications from the application catalog to the 770: 1. You can click on a link to .deb file in the browser, and the package will be installed 2. You can manually copy the apt repository details (URL, etc) to the Application Manager, update the repository info, and then install the packages The first method has an obvious advantage in being much easier for the end user. Couple of clicks and you have the application. But the second method feels more correct on the longer term, as using a repository makes it possible to centrally update all packages. But adding the repository and then installing the package includes quite a few clicks, and bunch of copy-paste which is a bit cumbersome with the 770. So, how could we make it easier to add new apt repositories? One reasonably easy way would be to: * Define an XML format for describing the repository. It could be as simple as: http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages";> mistral free * Define a MIME type for this format, for example application/x-apt-repository * Make Application Manager register itself as the handler of this MIME type * And finally enable Application Manager to add (and update) a new repository when given such a repository XML file. It should probably also take user automatically to the "Install" view This way when you click a repository file (which could be served from maemo.org or the repository itself), the Maemo browser would automatically hand it to the Application Manager and the repository would be added. What do you think? I know there has been some discussion about XML configuration formats on the apt-rpm list, but so far it seems inconclusive. However, on a device with very limited input options, some "click to add repository" format would be a big help. http://lists.laiskiainen.org/pipermail/apt-rpm-laiskiainen.org/2006-May/000236.html -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Making software installation a bit easier in Maemo
On 8/24/06, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yep. The Application installer in Sardine supports this feature already. Great to suggest a feature and hear that it is already done :-) Good work, guys! /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Charge from a USB port.
Hi! On 2/1/07, Chris Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone found an adaptor to charge the 770 from the USB port? I've been using this to charge my 770, N800 and N90: http://www.the-synch.co.uk/home.php?m=home&ex=1&; -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: suggestion for next Nokia tablet
On 2/12/07, Mike Lococo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Continued expansion of the form factor makes me very unhappy. I wish they'd have left the stereo speakers off the N800 and tightened up the form factor, and redundant buttons would make me very sad. I might be the only one, but I'm actually quite happy about the stereo speakers. N800 is already starting to replace the iPod for me, and the speakers mean I don't need to carry travel speakers if I want to listen to music in a hotel room for example. Considering for example the portable devices I took for the Death Monkey (www.deathmonkey.org) trip where space was very difficult to have, N800 replaces three devices out of four: * Nokia 770 for web browsing and navigation with Maemo Mapper * N90 for calling, taking pictures and blogging with LifeBlog (I don't think we had Maemo Blog then) * iPod for portable music * Travel speakers Without the need to carry iPod and speakers around I would probably now take the N800 and a proper camera, and replace the N90 with a smaller phone that would mostly act only as a Bluetooth modem. Blogging would now happen with the on-screen keyboard of the N800 instead of the phone's numeric pad. But then again, I guess this is not the kind of scenario everybody feels connected with ;-) Mike /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] important message for maemo.org wiki users
Hi! On 2/15/07, Ferenc Szekely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are in the middle of converting the old documentation to our new Midgard Content Management System. As part of this activity we have created a tool that will import the existing wiki pages to Midgard's Markdown [1] syntax. Actually, this is the extended Markdown version, Markdown Extra. This means you can also do things like tables and definition lists... http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ http://blog.thingoid.com/2006/01/markdown-cheat-sheet/ ferenc /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle adventures and Open Source Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Nokia camera app!
On 3/23/07, Dr. Nicholas Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On a more serious note - the settings don't allow you to save anywhere you want, e.g. I have two memory cards but it doesn't allow me to choose which directory I want to save my upside down pictures to. Or my right side up pictures of me. I found this weird, too. Why didn't they just use the standard Hildon directory picker for it? Similarly, why on earth did Nokia want to bundle a crappy picture album system in the camera app when File Manager does everything needed already? Nick Shaw /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Maemo "Downloads" tab out of commission
On 3/26/07, Bad Dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The app catalog ( http://downloads.maemo.org/ ) has been down since at least yesterday. Did I miss a memo, or is it broken? There was a failed reboot at the server on Friday that left some corrupted website cache files. They've been refreshed now. Sorry about this. -bd /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Any python experts?
On 3/26/07, Jonathan Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You invoke with a python ~/MyDocs/.documents/twitter.py username password "status message" I'd like to just have the status message part for obvious reasons. Right now I have to enter the full path + username and password each time... That could be reasonably easy to modify so that it asks for username/password once and then stores them to a config file. See an example in MaemoPlazer: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/src/pyplazer/pyplazer.py?root=maemoplazer&view=markup -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Any python experts?
On 3/27/07, Jens Geiregat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not turn it into a Home-plugin? Check out http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2007/03/23/0 for a quick intro. AFAIK Python can't yet be used for home or statusbar applets in the current IT OS releases... Jens Geiregat /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard and 770
On 5/11/07, Jac Kersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Had no problem getting it to work with the N770, however I found it hard > to use for anything but trivial (just a couple of keystrokes) usage. Don't > recall if special keys were a problem as I got myself a Nokia bluetooth > keyboard to be able to type without having to hit the backspace every few > characters. (But all of this could just be me being clumsy) I guess the laser keyboard doesn't differ much from the Maemo full-screen keyboard in this respect. > Jac /Bergie -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaiku: http://bergie.jaiku.com/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: maemo News needs your love
On 8/15/07, Mike Lococo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you favorite a planet story? I don't see the heart widget like > on other pages. Planet feeds are good candidates for favoriting because > they are often a good balance between fully-baked and available-early I had implemented this but forgotten to commit, sorry. Now Planet items can also be favorited. I've also done some other minor tweaks, like linking YouTube and Flickr items to the correct pages on those services. 137 favs in the service so far. Not digg-scale but a good start ;-) > Mike /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaiku: http://bergie.jaiku.com/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Idea: Route Finder Service
On 10/19/07, Lars Persson Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My thought was that it would be possible to supply the service with a > source and a destination address and have respond with a route and > information about the route, for instance the estimated time. The Route > Finder Service could then ask Google (or some other web-service) OR the > GPS to calculate the route. An interesting optional backend would be using the OpenStreetMap data for route calculation. This would allow downloading the whole OSM data file (currently 900MB) to the device and making routes (and possibly generating maemo mapper map tiles!) without need for internet connection. OSM data files: http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ Some points about OSM-based route calculation: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/notes_from_the_state_of_the_map_conference.html#b3a9ee267eb9b35a1f048755da38 > /Lars /Henri -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaiku: http://bergie.jaiku.com/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: non-English blogs on Planet maemo?
On 11/2/07, Rafael Proença <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else think that would be nice to see localized versions of the > maemo.org resources? Technically the possibility is there. Almost all content that is on maemo.org (articles, wiki pages, app catalog entries etc) use Midgard content types that are multilingual. We're just not exposing the multilingual capability on the site itself :-) -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaiku: http://bergie.jaiku.com/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
