Re: Virtualized developer system (was Re: Back to the basics:improving user experience)

2008-10-19 Thread Jisakiel
¿May I suggest the image being a virtualbox one instead of vmware? Virtualbox is quite fast as well, and there are free (as in speech) versions available for all major distros. Only problem is that the open source does not support usb (but the commercial version is freely downloadable and does).

Re: Screen locking while in conversation

2008-07-19 Thread Jisakiel
What about leaving most of the screen without actions, and the "hangup / hold / speaker" buttons in the bottom of the screen? It's the part less probable to be touched by funny ears, and that way you can still use it fine... - Mensaje original De: arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para:

Re: rationale for ASU (and change from GTK to Qt)

2008-06-27 Thread Jisakiel
Whatever the environment is, IMHO it should be coherent over all. Obviously the ideal solution would be indistinguishable QT or GTK apps, somehow like the gtk-qt theme acts in kde to hide the differences from qt apps to gtk. However file selectors, for instance, keep being different, spoiling th

Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Jisakiel
IIRC ubuntu mobile was only x86 based, and addressed to bigger devices than a phone (such as the Mobile Internet Devices - closer to n810 or even to asus EEE than to a phone). What I'd really love is to see android software stack running on the moko. Still not possible as android is not open,

Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Jisakiel
You forget the biggest: Nokia (sells as many phones a day as iphones yet sold). Rest are just startups so far, or non-mobile-phone-related... And Nokia looks like interested in QTopia (as they bought Trolltech!) ;) Firefox (xulrunner, as the GUI is not appropiate) can be replaced by khtml, or h

Re: Slashdot post but no web store?

2008-06-25 Thread Jisakiel
It breaks my heart to hear such news on the current state. As a matter of fact I'd be one of those developers trying to build software on it (just been researching lately while trying to choose a platform), but it certainly sounds as quite broken and not nearly finished enough to base some softw

Re: GPS

2008-06-24 Thread Jisakiel
ll get access to such data. As Joe Public you will probably have to rely on closed third party API's (e.g. Skyhook) to access similar functionality or alternatively try one of the community driven database lookup approaches. John. 2008/6/24 Jisakiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > - Is

Re: GPS

2008-06-24 Thread Jisakiel
tc). --- El mar, 24/6/08, Yorick Matthys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: De: Yorick Matthys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Asunto: GPS Para: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Fecha: martes, 24 junio, 2008 10:36 Jisakiel wrote: >Let's see if I understood correctly the concepts involved here, as

Re: GPS

2008-06-23 Thread Jisakiel
Let's see if I understood correctly the concepts involved here, as I am still a little bit confused... - TTFF is when no almanac data is available. Unlike what's specified in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner , is not 40 seconds but 12 minutes (no small difference). - TTFF shouldn't