Re: community Digest, Vol 80, Issue 42

2008-05-24 Thread Ron K. Jeffries
the following note caught my eye: [from http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/OpenEmbedded] *Note:* since 0.8.4, Familiar now uses its own forked version of OpenEmbedded (forked for stability) in order to build packages. Question -- from this list, IIIRC, OpenMoko has not forked OpenEmbedded.

Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-24 Thread Lorn Potter
On Saturday 24 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 23.05.2008 um 20:49 schrieb Lorn Potter: If anyone is in the position to change that, it's we. I don't like so sound to negative. I like most of the changes. But i think throwing the gtk apps away and replace them by the QTopia apps

Re: clarification of Qtopia Vs. GTK

2008-05-24 Thread Lorn Potter
On Saturday 24 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to add that I think Qtopia is very interesting, and I'm really looking forward to trying it on my neo, and thank you to Trolltech for helping out with getting it on X11 and on the neo, and for putting up with all the criticism. No

Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Ajit Natarajan
It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare and contrast these. I was especially worried about a posting a day or two ago saying that the Freerunner is 1990s era hardware. I would like to know

Re: Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

2008-05-24 Thread jluis
Hi, As I know, Qtopia phone edition is not free if we get the full functioned version! That was true the last year bun since september is under the GPL The commercial use should pay fee to Trolltech. Is it OK for Openmoko? The GPL permits commercial use.

Re: Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

2008-05-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Bin Chen wrote: Hi, As I know, Qtopia phone edition is not free if we get the full functioned version! The commercial use should pay fee to Trolltech. Is it OK for Openmoko? Thanks. Bin This was true, but last September Trolltech changed the licensing to include

Re: Importing Freerunners to Australia

2008-05-24 Thread Dennis Wollersheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for that! I have not seen it laid out so clearly, that will help the Melbourne group immensely. Cheers Dennis Simon Matthews wrote: Hi, I think there are a few mistakes in the calculations i have seen for importing the Freerunners into

Re: Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

2008-05-24 Thread Bin Chen
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Bin Chen wrote: Hi, As I know, Qtopia phone edition is not free if we get the full functioned version! The commercial use should pay fee to Trolltech. Is it OK for Openmoko? Thanks. Bin This

Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread rakshat hooja
I am not to sure how many people have seen the Neo software stack diagram on the wiki but after looking at it there really should not be a GTK Vs Qtopia argument any more. But I do wonder how Android fits in? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NeoSoftwareStack Rakshat

Re: Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

2008-05-24 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Bin Chen ha scritto: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Al Johnson Until now some Qtopia components, like the telephony, DRM and the safe execution environment software stacks, were only available under the commercial development license. So how about the telephony parts of QT in moko, we need

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comparing with the FreeRunner hardware wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware Comms: Freerunner only has

Re: Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

2008-05-24 Thread Marcel
Am Samstag 24 Mai 2008 14:24:37 schrieb Bin Chen: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Bin Chen wrote: Hi, As I know, Qtopia phone edition is not free if we get the full functioned version! The commercial use should pay fee to

Re: My blog, Freerunner FIrst Impressions and some pics

2008-05-24 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now it works, well done. Kevin Dean schrieb: | My VPS provider was upgrading the hardware and decided to upgrade my | plan because of the interruption. I thank you for the offer, but I | don't think it'll be needed, it seems stuff is loading again

Re: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread Marcel
Am Samstag 24 Mai 2008 14:47:03 schrieb rakshat hooja: I am not to sure how many people have seen the Neo software stack diagram on the wiki but after looking at it there really should not be a GTK Vs Qtopia argument any more. But I do wonder how Android fits in?

Re: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread Brad Midgley
Marcel Isn't this diagram outdated? the wiki history suggests it was posted earlier this month. we could speculate about android. It ostensibly just requires the linux kernel but there would have to be some wiring to drive the neo-specific stuff correctly. -- Brad

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 May 2008, at 11:45, Al Johnson wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008, Ajit Natarajan wrote: It would be great if someone who has used or is otherwise aware of the feature sets of the Freerunner, HTC, and other smart phones to compare and contrast these. I was especially worried about a

Re: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Marcel ha scritto: Am Samstag 24 Mai 2008 14:47:03 schrieb rakshat hooja: I am not to sure how many people have seen the Neo software stack diagram on the wiki but after looking at it there really should not be a GTK Vs Qtopia argument any more. But I do wonder how Android fits in?

Re: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread Kevin Dean
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 24 Mai 2008 14:47:03 schrieb rakshat hooja: I am not to sure how many people have seen the Neo software stack diagram on the wiki but after looking at it there really should not be a GTK Vs Qtopia argument any more.

Re: community Digest, Vol 80, Issue 44

2008-05-24 Thread Lorn Potter
On Sunday 25 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how about the telephony parts of QT in moko, we need to develop by ourself or use commercial version instead? Bin Qtopia Phone GPL version contains all of the parts needed. Qtopia Phone is completely open source. A Neo running Qtopia GPL is

RE: My blog, Freerunner FIrst Impressions and some pics

2008-05-24 Thread steve
All of the initial phones that ship from Openmoko.com are planned to ship with the legacy version of the Openmoko Stack and it's GTK applications. The base set of applications, dialer, SMS, and contacts, have been released to manufacturing. So anyone who wants to take this release and build on

RE: IGES STEP CAD file issues

2008-05-24 Thread steve
Guillermo may be bale to help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of christooss Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: IGES STEP CAD file issues Jeremiah Flerchinger

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Robert Taylor
Steven Le Roux wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comparing with the FreeRunner hardware wiki page:

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Robert Taylor
Steven Le Roux wrote: and we are talking about a phone... so the camera... is clearly NOT a priority for a first phone;.. fortunately there is no keyboard ;) ! or where's the point with the touchscreen... -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: Video of production device?

2008-05-24 Thread t3st3r
-Original Message- From: Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Video of production device? Is there video of the production FreeRunner in use? I found

Re: My blog, Freerunner FIrst Impressions and some pics

2008-05-24 Thread Kevin Dean
Having had a chance to briefly poke around at the ASU, I think that's a great choice. :) On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:10 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of the initial phones that ship from Openmoko.com are planned to ship with the legacy version of the Openmoko Stack and it's GTK

Re: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both?

2008-05-24 Thread t3st3r
-Original Message- From: rakshat hooja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 18:17:03 +0530 Subject: Qtopia Vs. GTK or both? I am not to sure how many people have seen the Neo software stack diagram on the wiki but after looking at it there really

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread Federico Lorenzi
If you can type as fast on a touch screen as I can on a properly sized thumb keyboard, you are a magician. If you can type on a properly sized thumb keyboard, as quickly as I can on a fold up bluetooth keyboard, then you are a magician. And if I can type as quickly on a fold up bluetooth

Re: Freerunner v. HTC v. ....

2008-05-24 Thread john
If you can pull a rabbit out of a hat whilst typing on a normal keyboard you are indeed a magician! 2008/5/24 Federico Lorenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you can type as fast on a touch screen as I can on a properly sized thumb keyboard, you are a magician. If you can type on a properly sized

Re: Re[2]: Video of production device?

2008-05-24 Thread Kevin Dean
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, t3st3r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:00 -0600 Subject: Re: Video of production device? Is there

Qte or Qt?

2008-05-24 Thread Bin Chen
Hi, As ASU switched to Qt, to ensure the coexistence of GTK+ and QT, the backend should be chosen to X11. As I know, QTE only support framebuffer backend, so OM use desktop QT but not QTE? Thanks. Bin ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Qte or Qt?

2008-05-24 Thread Kevin Dean
Qt has been adapted for X11. This is why GTK apps will still be supported. On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As ASU switched to Qt, to ensure the coexistence of GTK+ and QT, the backend should be chosen to X11. As I know, QTE only support framebuffer