Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On 07/07/2009 02:09 AM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > GObject is a hug success in a lot of very important libraries. I wouldn't go that far. > Ask yourself: why there is so few general libraries written in C++ > compared to the libraries written in C ? Because a C library can be used as is

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hi On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > 3rdShift a écrit : > Ask yourself: why there is so few general libraries written in C++ > compared to the libraries written in C ? I think it is because it is to hard to write real applications in c and people end up with half p

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Jean-Christian de Rivaz
3rdShift a écrit : > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> 2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi : >>> Hi >>> >>> 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter : ma...@bitblit.net wrote: > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one need to > learn C++ to write Maemo apps

Re: Accessing contacts via d-bus

2009-07-06 Thread Tatu Lahtela
It's mostly directly from the maemo-examples and the abook example. I attached a short example and a pro file for it that uses pkg_config for it. It prints out the names in the address book. It needs to be run via run-standalone.sh. -Tatu On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, David Greaves wrote:

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Mathieu Blondel
> If you plan to stay in the business as career software developer, then > the ability and willingness to retool yourself with new language/OS is a > must. Otherwise, you have a slim chance to make a living for yourself > and your family. Let me see, Algol/IBM360, Fortran/IBM360, PL/1/IBM360, > Pas

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread 3rdShift
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:23 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > 2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi : > > Hi > > > > 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter : > >> ma...@bitblit.net wrote: > >> > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one > >> need to > >>> learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck.

Re: Changing/Disabling the special button below the cursor pad

2009-07-06 Thread David Weinehall
On tis, 2009-07-07 at 02:20 +0200, ext Jey Han Lau wrote: > Hi all, > > 2 quick questions: > 1. What do you call that special button below the cursor pad? It's the > one that opens up the menu if pressed. here's two buttons that open menus; the home button (symbol is a house on the n800 and two

Changing/Disabling the special button below the cursor pad

2009-07-06 Thread Jey Han Lau
Hi all, 2 quick questions: 1. What do you call that special button below the cursor pad? It's the one that opens up the menu if pressed. 2. Is it possible to detect that special button key press or disable its functionality? Either through a program or universally. The reason I am asking this i

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2009-07-06 Thread Uzi Buzgalo
Hi maemo-developers@maemo.org, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile. Thanks, Uzi To sign up for Facebook, follow the

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Kees Jongenburger
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Attila Csipa wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009 17:23:25 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++. >> And I don't want to rely too much on Python. >> >> Also my personal interest in Maemo has been Xournal as eveyone knows, >> bu

[GSoC 09] IM Client for Canola - report 2

2009-07-06 Thread Thiago
Hi guys, Sorry about the late report. I had my final exams at university these past few weeks and I could not do this earlier. These weeks were pretty productive. I've managed to understand a lot about telepathy and canola's internals. Further development was done, like buddy list fetching, async

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Attila Csipa
On Monday 06 July 2009 17:23:25 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++. > And I don't want to rely too much on Python. > > Also my personal interest in Maemo has been Xournal as eveyone knows, > but if porting it to Qt involves learning C++.. brrr... The

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Klaus Rotter
Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > As much as I would love to learn Qt, I really hate C++. > And I don't want to rely too much on Python. > > Also my personal interest in Maemo has been Xournal as eveyone knows, > but if porting it to Qt involves learning C++.. brrr... Well, you can write your main appli

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/7/6 Andrea Grandi : > Hi > > 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter : >> ma...@bitblit.net wrote: >>  > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one >> need to >>> learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck... > > I think you'll be able to write them in Python too What always s

Re: Submenues in Fremantle

2009-07-06 Thread Till Harbaum / Lists
Hi, sure, there are no real submenues, but you can easily popup a different HildonAppMenu on selecting an entry in the main menu. That's imho nicer than those stacked windows containing nothing but a vbox full of buttons. I am just uploading gpxview-0.7.2. Have a look at it if you wnt to see what

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi 2009/7/6 Klaus Rotter : > ma...@bitblit.net wrote: > > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one > need to >> learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck... I think you'll be able to write them in Python too -- Andrea Grandi email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT]

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-06 Thread Klaus Rotter
ma...@bitblit.net wrote: > The way I understand it, Qt uses C++ but GTK uses C. So does one need to > learn C++ to write Maemo apps now? That would suck... AFAIK there is no adequate C interface to Qt. In the early days of qt there was a project to write a API set for C. BUT: You don't have to

Re: Maemo 4.1: unable to run 'make menuconfig' in scratchbox

2009-07-06 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
Awesome! It worked. Thanks to both of you! :) -mandeep On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Faheem Pervez wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to Frantisek Dufka: > http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=124726&postcount=8 > > Best Regards, > Faheem > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Mandeep > Sandhu wrote: >> Hi

Re: Maemo 4.1: unable to run 'make menuconfig' in scratchbox

2009-07-06 Thread Faheem Pervez
Hi, Thanks to Frantisek Dufka: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=124726&postcount=8 Best Regards, Faheem On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to run menuconfig for my diablo source, but it gives me the > following > error: > > [sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: /u

Maemo 4.1: unable to run 'make menuconfig' in scratchbox

2009-07-06 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
Hi All, I'm trying to run menuconfig for my diablo source, but it gives me the following error: [sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: /usr/src/kernel-source-diablo] > make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.

Re: Submenues in Fremantle

2009-07-06 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Till Harbaum / Lists wrote 05.07.2009 18:44: > i already tried this and it looks much better than the extra windows. > Why are there different tutorials/style guides for this? ... > - Can i add a title? I'd like if the submenues are somehow titled like > the main menu entries they were reached

Re: closed tools, Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle an d Diablo released

2009-07-06 Thread Mohammed Hassan
I guess it'll have to wait then. I'm also leaving this Friday and don't have much time to start poking people around... Cheers, On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 22:46 +0200, Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: > Hi, I'm following the discussion but bare with me these days since I'm in the > Desktop Summit >

Re: Accessing contacts via d-bus

2009-07-06 Thread David Greaves
Tatu, could you post a link to your code? I'm really interested in seeing an example of the addressbook connectivity. Also I came across this: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3878 which may be useful. David Tatu Lahtela wrote: > Ok talking to my self now :) > > Thanks Antonio, that QT libra

Re: Accessing contacts via d-bus

2009-07-06 Thread Tatu Lahtela
Ok talking to my self now :) Thanks Antonio, that QT library loading seemed to do the trick. I was able to access the data with the libebook c api, that osso api wasn't required. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Tatu Lahtela wrote: > I initially tried to use the maemo-examples and the example