Does libX11 use shared memory between several clients?

2008-01-28 Thread Bin Chen
Hi, Currently I am looking at libX11's source code, I am curios many libX11 doesn't send the message to the server but only modify some structure in the local memory, such as: void _XRegisterFilterByType( Display *display, Window window, int start_type, int end_type, Bool (*fi

Help regarding installation on N800

2008-01-28 Thread nisha jain
Hi All, I have made a simple GUI using Hildon and created debian package which i am not sure correct or wrong. I have trasferred it to N800 handheld and tried installing through application manager but I am getting problem as it is not installing.. It throws following error -- Unable to install

Recommendations for a Python Active Records framework

2008-01-28 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi everyone, I am developing an application in Python obviously using GTK/Hildon and will be storing data in an SQLite database. I have previously used ActiveRecord frameworks in Python (namely Exilir) and PHP and they seem to make life easier for writing database applications. Under Ubuntu 7.10

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 15:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just saw this on maemo-users list: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:24:30PM +, Matt Emson wrote: > > http://www.nokia.com/A4813580 -> go to webcast > > According to Kai Oistamo (around minute 9): > > "I want also to make clear that

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread maemo
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > Don't fool yourself. Qt is to Nokia what Linux was to IBM: the only > way to unify the development of various hardware platform. You can bet > it's no fun to develop libs to s40 and s60, so why leave internet > tablets out of this? Just saw t

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Jan 28, 2008 4:46 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > > Don't fool yourself. Qt is to Nokia what Linux was to IBM: the only > > way to unify the development of various hardware platform. You can bet > > it's no fun to develop libs to s40 and

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread maemo
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > Don't fool yourself. Qt is to Nokia what Linux was to IBM: the only > way to unify the development of various hardware platform. You can bet > it's no fun to develop libs to s40 and s60, so why leave internet > tablets out of this? Why bother

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Jan 28, 2008 2:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jae Stutzman wrote: > > > This is really strange. We have stayed away from qt due to the > > commercial license required to do proprietary apps. Gtk fits the bill > > nicely for us, so where is the future of maemo now? This

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread maemo
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jae Stutzman wrote: > This is really strange. We have stayed away from qt due to the > commercial license required to do proprietary apps. Gtk fits the bill > nicely for us, so where is the future of maemo now? This is quite > strange. Nokia reminds me of the weather in Texas.

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Jae Stutzman
This is really strange. We have stayed away from qt due to the commercial license required to do proprietary apps. Gtk fits the bill nicely for us, so where is the future of maemo now? This is quite strange. Nokia reminds me of the weather in Texas...very unpredictable :) Jae _

Nokia Buys Trolltech

2008-01-28 Thread vicente garcia
*"Trolltech announced this morning (CET) that they have accepted a bid from Nokiato buy the entire company. The bid was for 16 NOK per share, which values the company at an equivalent of approximately 150 million US

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, > Welcome to the world of large, multi-national companies. I don't > imagine Nokia's M&A teams were particularly mindful of the Qt/Gtk > distinction in Maemo when they made the acquisition. Yes, of course I'm aware of the dynamics inside a huge company. But Nokia is a technology company, so

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Jan 28, 2008 4:52 AM, Martin Grimme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also don't think that the acquisition was maemo-related in any way. > But I hope that they won't switch hildon from GTK to Qt. The main > reason why I'm developing for the tablets is because they're > GTK-based. Agreed ... it wo

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Jari Kirma
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt=20HERVIER=20 wrote: > I think their are more interested by the OS "Qtopia Phone Edition" than QT on > Maemo. Although this has some backing on the press release, it's still my personal speculation: Qt is reasonably portable, and Nokia has already demo

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Johan Helsingius
Ross, Even back in the bad old 80's when I was running a training and consultancy company up in Finland, I only half-joked that a medium-sized consultancy company could stay fully employed just going around Nokia telling departments what the other departments were up to. And back then Nokia was a

GSMA World Congress in Barcelona

2008-01-28 Thread Graham Cobb
Anyone else going to the GSMA World Congress in Barcelona in a couple of weeks? I would guess that some others on this list also work in the telecoms industry and might be there. An informal get-together might be nice -- an opportunity to put some faces to the email addresses on this list. He

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Martin Grimme
I also don't think that the acquisition was maemo-related in any way. But I hope that they won't switch hildon from GTK to Qt. The main reason why I'm developing for the tablets is because they're GTK-based. Cheers, Martin 2008/1/28, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:2

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt=20HERVIER=20
I think their are more interested by the OS "Qtopia Phone Edition" than QT on Maemo. On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:46:56 +, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:29 -0500, Reggie Suplido wrote: >> I guess the big news today is that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech: >> http:/

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:29 -0500, Reggie Suplido wrote: > I guess the big news today is that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech: > http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008 > > How do you think will this improve/affect Maemo? Rememeber that the mobile phone division has nothing to do with the tablet divi

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Jan 28, 2008 9:20 AM, Hanno Zulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reggie Suplido schrieb: > > I guess the big news today is that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech: > > I have to admit: I don't get Nokia. Welcome to the world of large, multi-national companies. I don't imagine Nokia's M&A teams were par

Re: What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Hanno Zulla
Reggie Suplido schrieb: > I guess the big news today is that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech: > http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008 > > How do you think will this improve/affect Maemo? I have to admit: I don't get Nokia. So they invest in Maemo for several years, which is based on GTK. Now they

What does Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech mean to Maemo?

2008-01-28 Thread Reggie Suplido
I guess the big news today is that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech: http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008 How do you think will this improve/affect Maemo? ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo