Re: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Max Usachev wrote: > I wonder to know, if Nokia and Maemo community will participate in GSoC > 2011 as last years? > I think it's a good chance to help Maemo platform in so hard time for > community and Nokia. That depends partly on the Maemo community, such as it is (you need mentors, projec

Re: Nokia and MS

2011-02-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Hämäläinen Kimmo wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:07 +0100, ext Nils Faerber wrote: > ... >>> I am very sceptical about all that and don't really buy that >>> "redefintion" of MeeGo within Nokia as a "learning platform for future >>> disruptions". Even if it somehow survives within Nokia as a

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Roman, Roman Morawek wrote: > I uploaded a new release of my application > (http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) on 5th of November, so more > than 2.5 months ago. Right now, I have 6 positive votes (including mine) > - thus 60% of the demanded hurdle. I guess my application is not one of

Re: Cannot upload screenshot: maemo.org bug

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Daniel Klaffenbach wrote: > I have discovered a bug in the maemo.org "Downloads" area. I have already > filed > a bug[1] about this two months ago, but nobody seems to care. Ready, fire, aim, eh? "Nobody seems to care" doesn't really seem fair, given that you opened the bug & then there we

Re: Discontinue distributing Maemo Bug Jars via email?

2010-11-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Thomas Perl wrote: > I don't like the fact that bug jars are sent "several at once", but I > can just select all these mails and archive them at once - no big > problem. Maybe you can merge them into one single mail per week? Interesting - indeed, getting them all at once is one of the things

Re: Maintainer policy - maintainer has disappeared

2010-10-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Adam Baxter wrote: > The maintainer for the zoutube application seems to have disappeared > from the face of the Earth and there is a critical bug in the stable > version of zoutube - i.e. it doesn't work anymore. > > There is a fix waiting to be pulled into the maintainer's git > repository

Re: Porting Maemo to MeeGo

2010-10-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > AFAIK GTK is still around in MeeGo and will still be supported. I know > Nokia wants everyone to use Qt, but not everyone wants to use Qt. GTK is still around & part of the stack - so guaranteed to be present. Going from there to "supported" is a leap. Cheers, Da

Re: Porting Maemo to MeeGo

2010-10-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, ds wrote: > is there a guide, howto or something simelar on porting Maemo Apps (e.g. > gtk based) to MeeGo. I could not find on MeeGo and Maemo site:-( Not really. It would be more relevant to MeeGo lists than Maemo lists. Linked from the Qt page in the wiki: http://wiki.maemo.org/Qt there is

Re: Documentation of Maemo extensions for .desktop files?

2010-10-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Thomas Perl wrote: > I think it's in Hildon-Desktop, although you have to look through the > source to extract the meaning of each field: Thanks for the pointer! The wiki mentions some other fields (and groups) which I don't see mentioned here. Also, looking at the code I don't see where th

Documentation of Maemo extensions for .desktop files?

2010-10-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, As I mentioned yesterday, I've been looking unsuccessfully for any documentation of the X-* Maemo extensions to the .desktop file format - which extensions are allowed, and for what. Does anyone know of any document which contains a complete list of custom fields & an explanation of thei

Re: Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, So I got through my troubles today & I think that I've managed to understand pretty well the various aspects of packaging, integration with HAM and the application menu. I'd appreciate reviews & comments on the updated http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging page now, please! Dave

Re: Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ville, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > You can get "make install" quite easily with qmake as well. It's a > basic boilerplate you attach to your project: > > http://pastebin.com/QfsRYtqF I'm not saying you can't - I'm only trying to get people up to speed as quickly as possible with their first appl

Re: Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Felipe Crochik wrote: > http://maemo.crochik.com/qt-development/packaging-a-lib-for-maemo Thanks Felipe! A useful contribution - worthy of a wiki page all to itself: "Packaging libraries" - do you have a few minutes to copy the info over, please? Thanks! Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email

Re: Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >> Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, and you're suggesting that >> developers should use whatever method is appropriate for the upstream >> build tools, and then handle the packagin

Re: Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ville, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > Sorry for top posting, I'm doing it to avoid addressing our specific points > ;-). > > 1) You can use my "qdebwiz" python script to package a stereotypical, > simple Qt application for N900: > > git clone git://gitorious.org/qdebwiz/qdebwiz.git > > README: >

Reviewing beginner packaging docs

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, With Dave, we did a pretty good review of the getting started & packaging docs a few months ago, which got people to the point where they could get a hello, world package written & packaged as a .deb. We didn't go further than that, and so I've spent some time this week acting as a brand

[Fwd: GTK+/MeeGo Handset integration work, call for bids]

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, This announcement looks relevant both to MeeGo and Maemo developers, so I hope people won't mind me forwarding it along (for information). Thanks, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org --- Begin Message --- The GNOME Foundation is looking for de

Re: dbus-send command/python dbus way for launching voip call through GTalk on N900

2010-10-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Praveen, praveen koduru wrote: > I am looking for voice call through Gtalk on N900 from command line like > dbus-send command or python-dbus. I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your question, but if/when you get an answer, would you mind taking a minute to synthesise it into a use-case in t

Re: Camera initialization in Conversations

2010-10-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Stefan, Stefan Krastanov wrote: > I have an idea how to do it on my own, but I was interested in seeing > (and modifying) it in the IM app. > > I had the idea to make it switch to the main camera on dbus signal from > the lens-cover. I can do it for a code that I am writing but I would > like

Re: Camera initialization in Conversations

2010-10-04 Thread Dave Neary
hi Stefan, Stefan Krastanov wrote: > I would like to see the code used for managing the camera in the > build-in IM client. My problem is that I haven't found any good > documentation. Can someone from the more experienced devs point me to > the packages concerned with the initialization of the vi

Bug #10519: qt-maemo-gravity-example has obsolete Qt configuration

2010-09-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10519 I would like to sollicit help to confirm & fix or close this bug - I would like to have a patch to the example that works with PR 1.2 and earlier (and ideally will continue to work with PR >= 1.3). I'm not set up to even confirm the bug, I'm a

Re: Qt SQL Browser/Manager Application - is there one?

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Christian Kandeler wrote: > On 09/23/2010 04:41 PM, ext Felipe Crochik wrote: >> Can anybody recommend any “application” I can port to maemo5 that will >> allow me to interact with sql lite database? > > How about http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net? How about sqlite??? http://www.sqlite.or

Re: Autocomplete Library

2010-09-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sivan Greenberg wrote: > I would go to the trouble to provide a more "complete" autocomplete > lib, in the form of completing not just by autocomplete lists provided > by some readline client apps, but to employ "heuristics" to > autocomplete words related to a usage domain of certain tools an

Re: Autocomplete Library

2010-09-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Tanmay, Tanmay Verma wrote: > Hi I have taken Maemo development project in my mobile computing course > and our group was thinking of developing an Autocomplete library. Is > there any such library available in GNU C or other libraries which > support Maemo apps GNU Readline provides autocompl

Re: How to use osso RPC calls properly

2010-08-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ville, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM, wrote: >> I've been trying to show bluetooth device search dialog using osso_rpc_run >> and osso_rpc_run_system but this code returns OSSO_RPC_ERROR every time. > > You should avoid osso_ calls, my understanding is that they ar

Re: Getting a phone number from an OssoABookContact

2010-08-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:04, Dave Neary wrote: >> Andrew Flegg wrote: >>> Here's some code from Hermes'[1] org/maemo/hermes/engine/contact.py: >> Any chance you could turn this into a use-case using the use-case >> template

Re: Getting a phone number from an OssoABookContact

2010-08-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andrew Flegg wrote: > Here's some code from Hermes'[1] org/maemo/hermes/engine/contact.py: Any chance you could turn this into a use-case using the use-case template in the wiki, please? Thanks! Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org ___

Re: Building maemo on Beagle Board

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Amit Sethi wrote: > Hi , I am trying to install maemo on BeagleBoard . I am following > instructions given here: > > http://omappedia.org/wiki/Maemo_Getting_Started#Beagle > > However the process breaks because of a broken package : > dbus 1.2.14-0maemo4+0m5 How is it broken? What have yo

Re: OCR for Fremantle

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, ac...@dsic.upv.es wrote: > Please, could someone tell me if I can obtain the sources of it for > recompiling? > If yes, from where can I download them? You can get Tesseract here: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ And the build for Fremantle: http://maemo.org/packages/view/tesseract-oc

Re: DBus Methods and Signals Introspection or Documentation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Wei, Wei Li wrote: > I am doing a project of middleware on Maemo/N900. I need to find the > methods and signals related to the hardware, for example, HAL > (especially the objects under /com/nokia since it is somehow > proprietary). However, I couldn't find a detailed documentation on that. > A

Re: Using libosso-abook getting package requirement error

2010-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Pallavi, Pallavi Kandhare wrote: > [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > fakeroot apt-get install libosso-abook-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > libosso-abook-dev is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. A tip f

Announcing the Maemo Brainstorm 2010

2010-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
What should maemo.org and the Maemo Community look like in six months? What are the top priorities of the Maemo project? What should the maemo.org staff be concentrating on? We need to set some bigger, more concrete and measurable goals for Maemo for the coming months. To help gather ideas and pri

Re: HAL context initializing failure

2010-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Pallavi, Pallavi Kandhare wrote: > I did include the sample code in my previous mail. This code does not compile - there is no main function declaration, no header declarations, no compilation instructions... An extra 6 lines and it is a compilable cut & paste, without it you are requiring peo

Re: HAL context initializing failure

2010-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Pallavi Kandhare wrote: > Please can anybody tell me why am I getting this error in foll code? Which error? Please try to be precise about what you have done, and what problem you are having, it reduces the work people need to do to help you. Please include a compilable code sample if you wo

Re: Proposed reorganization of documentation bug reporting

2010-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, jarmo.ti...@nokia.com wrote: > What I am still wondering is "UI Specification" product under "Maemo > Official Platform" classification here: > https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=Maemo%20Official%20Platform Looking at this: http://is.gd/cevlF it appears that these bugs are be

Re: Undefined reference error

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David King wrote: > On 2010-05-14 11:13, David King wrote: >> Yes, if you are using libhal and libhal-storage through pkg-config with >> autotools, then I guess that you have: >> >> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([HAL], [libhal libhal-storage]) >> >> or similar in your configure.ac. If not, then you shoul

Re: Undefined reference error

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Pallavi Kandhare wrote: > I have 2 files : list1.h and list1.c, and I call some functions defined > in list1.h in main function of main.c. First, some definitions: Functions are generally declared in headers, and defined in C files. A declaration of any function is required before you can u

Re: Using proc command in Maemo code

2010-05-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Pallavi Kandhare wrote: > When /proc command is used in Maemo code it displays names of all > running applications on the system. I also want to display names (and > not PID) of all applications which are running / active in emulator. > Pls can anybody guide how can i do the same. The command

Re: UPDATE2: Maemo Info Center library service released with first set of official maemo Fremantle 5 documentation

2010-04-30 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Jarmo, jarmo.ti...@nokia.com wrote: > Maemo LaTeX baseline (origin LaTeX files) and ready-made MediaWiki > import documents can be downloaded from here: > _http://library.maemodocs.nokia.com/documents/fremantle/Maemo_5_Document_Baselines/_ Can I assume that these docs supercede the previous li

Numbered sections in wiki (was: Re: Packaging guidelines)

2010-04-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Graham Cobb wrote: > 0) I have a meta-comment: to facilitate discussion, the sections of the > document should be numbered. This is a user-preference in Mediawiki: in "My preferences", in the Misc tab, check "Auto-number headings" to have sections in all pages numbered. Sections are number

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David King wrote: > On 2010-04-28 13:20, Dave Neary wrote: >> A packaging tutorial really should only cover the most simple things, >> and point people to canonical references where they can get more >> information. The Packaging page has already gotten too long for m

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David King wrote: >> In addition, once something fails, it's still a bit unclear from the >> current docs about where to continue/repeat which steps. > > Yes, this is hard to solve in such a compact tutorial, as there are lots > of steps where something could fail, and it is difficult to find

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: > I documented the packaging of a C app (using autotools for building) a > while back in the wiki: > http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#A_concrete_example_-_rot13 > > This starts with a tiny C program & the minimum autotools stuff to build > it (I don&#

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Thomas, Thomas Waelti wrote: > I'm looking for "advanced" packaging information for a very small C > application. I documented the packaging of a C app (using autotools for building) a while back in the wiki: http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#A_concrete_example_-_rot13 This starts with a tiny

Re: Efficient storage and playback of speech

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Alberto, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > I need to install on the device a few (I guess around 10-20) audio > files with some seconds of speech each (it's for GPS navigation). > What file format do you suggest to use, considering that one requirement > is that the audio is played almost immediately

Re: Dependency problems after PR 1.2 update to extras builder

2010-03-30 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Niels Breet wrote: > The issue people see is that they are then trying to install the PR1.2 > built application on a pre PR1.2 device. This might or might not work, > depending on which dependencies are specified. To summarise, from the point of view of a developer: * If I upload a new verrs

Re: Dependency problems after PR 1.2 update to extras builder

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > No, I am not kidding. It was discussed here on mailing list and announced > that > Extras autobuilder will be updated to PR 1.2 compatible SDK and that > resulting > packages will be installable only on devices owned by Nokia employed people > (and some from co

Re: maemo-developers Digest, Vol 59, Issue 25

2010-03-26 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote: >>> This work has been largely ignored by the Nokia team running the >>> repos, much to my frustration. >> Yes, Nokia is good at that. ;-) > > Nokia is not alone. We'll soon get to see how the Intel / Nokia combo is a

Re: Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Matti Airas wrote: > However, as a member of the PyMaemo project I'm really worried about the > fate of the pypackager and py2deb packages which allow for creating deb > packages of Python programs without resorting to the use of Scratchbox. > The functionality provided by these packages is qu

Re: N900 USB Networking

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, van Porten, Oliver wrote: > I've tried following this guide to setup USB networking with my Windows > PC: > http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_USB_networking#Windows_XP Have you also looked at the more generic http://wiki.maemo.org/USB_networking page also? I'm afraid since I'm not a Windows user I w

Re: Extras-testing improvements

2010-03-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Niels Breet wrote: > You have to see that Extras should be for applications that are of a high > quality. The Extras repository should not give any problems to people who > are new to Maemo and have no clue how to work with linux for instance. I think if extras-testing were easy to optionally

Re: Extras-testing improvements

2010-03-09 Thread Dave Neary
H, Graham Cobb wrote: >> I >> believe we ALL want better quality software, developers, testers, users, >> everybody. > > Everybody wants it, just like they want world peace. The question is what > are > they willing to sacrifice to get it. I'm with Graham on this. The pre-release burden on

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > How can you not like this? What is your reasoning? You brought this same > response to the last Maemo update, and I still do not understand it. Let's say that there are 10,000 applications in Extras. Now every N900 owner can get all of those apps. Then a new ver

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sascha Mäkelä wrote: > I was under the impression that for many Qt apps a simple repackaging > will do the trick. If this is the case, would it not make sense to make > those updates available? After all, before the updates are released to > Extras, many users are going to have Qt apps that wo

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Niels Breet wrote: >> Niels Breet wrote: >>> Maemo 5 PR1.2 seems to be a release with some large changes which are >>> not backwards compatible with previous releases. Most visible change >>> will be the inclusion of Qt4.6, but there will be some other smaller >>> changes. >> When you say "not

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
hi, Niels Breet wrote: > Maemo 5 PR1.2 seems to be a release with some large changes which are not > backwards compatible with previous releases. Most visible change will be > the inclusion of Qt4.6, but there will be some other smaller changes. When you say "not backwards compatible", does that

Re: A proper home page in maemo.org with help wiki for each app in Extras

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Ryan Abel wrote: > This isn't really any easier than bundling the docs with the application > package itself and marginally more complicated for both the developer and the > user. If the docs package is in user/*, then it's cluttering up the > application manager and you need twice the amou

Re: Request: Tutorials & use-cases for documentation

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sascha, Sascha Mäkelä wrote: > How to override Silent Profile? what do you mean override? You mean have a user-space application decide not to do what the user has explicitly requested the phone to do? Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org

Re: About "legacy" Maemo 5 documentation on the wiki

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Anderson, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > While fixing a few bugs on the supposedly official developer > documentation on the wiki, I just noticed I made a mistake and was > actually editing this one: > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Legacy_Maemo_5_Documentation > > The problem is that it is often getting

Re: Request: Tutorials & use-cases for documentation

2010-02-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > I too am of the ide of answers specific to a particular toolkit. > Quick and easy. > > Answer to the same use case in a different toolkit belong to that particular > toolkit category. While the technology used to answer a question is a concern (and not a tiny, eas

Request: Tutorials & use-cases for documentation

2010-02-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi everyone, Titta from Lionbridge has been working hard in recent months to understand what is needed to make Maemo's developer documentation rock, and one of her key goals is to ensure that the Maemo community is involved in the creation of documentation - but setting priorities and helping writ

Re: Packaging questions

2010-02-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > Is it then considered this way; > > 1. http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging Quick Start > 2. > http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Packaging%2C_Deploying_and_Distributing > Complete Maemo Guide > 3. http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Authoritat

Re: Is the N900 running X-Windows?!

2010-02-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, 白い熊 wrote: > I've tried both ssh -XC n900 and ssh -YC n900 and then running leafpad > for instance, but it gets run on the N900, is not exported to the PC. > > I've set: > ForwardX11 yes > ForwardX11Trusted yes > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config on the N900 but it's not exported. > > What am I doing w

Re: Packaging questions

2010-02-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Ajai Khattri wrote: >> That depends, but for the current situation, I would say no. Firstly, >> creating multiple binary packages is harder than a single binary, though >> not by much. I recommend you start out with just a single binary if you >> can. > > OK, but Im curious: what would be

Re: Developing virtual keyboard plugin for Maemo 5

2010-02-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: >> says hildon_im_ui_button_set_* APIs are supported. But when verified >> in header file hildon-im-ui.h there aren't any of the APIs starting >> from hildon_im_ui_button_set_ > > This documentation seems out-dated. Some of that API has been removed. > Please report

Re: Maemo Base Port documentation

2010-02-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Marcin, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Which version of Maemo it covers? Rather not Maemo6 as it had to be Qt based > and pdf talks about GNOME GVFS. The architecture diagram Nokia presented in Gran Canaria: http://www.slideshare.net/qgil/maemo-harmattan-qt-and-more showed that most of the

Re: Maemo5 SDK slow performance

2010-02-02 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Max, Max Usachev wrote: > Hello! > I have strange problem with Maemo 5 SDK - all graphic manipulations in > emulator works very slow. Also I get many errors such as: > hildon-desktop[1961]: GLIB WARNING ** ClutterX11 - Failed to get XImage > of pixmap: e00054, removing I'm sorry, I'm no help -

FOSDEM update

2010-01-29 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I updated the FOSDEM page with the latest information about the conference, including all of the Maemo-related content during the conference, and a proposal for a Saturday evening meet-up. There is Maemo-related content in four tracks this year - security, cross-distro, cross-desktop and o

Re: Problems compiling HelloWorld for gtk+

2010-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi acano, ac...@dsic.upv.es wrote: > I write you because I am having problems when compiling the program > holamundo for gtk that is shown in the documentacion. I'm not sure if you got an answer for this. In the case where you didn't: > Here is the error I obtain: > > [sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/p

Re: Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

2010-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Riku Voipio wrote: > Well, such misunderstandings are likely to be caused by the poor extras > instructions. Which exact page should Henrik read to get enlightened? David King & I are working on improving these. Having not gone through the process myself, I need help. Your questions are great

Re: Telephone API question - answering a call.

2010-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Dave Neary wrote: >> And here: >> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?CSD%20programming%20information&id=1106&type=g > > This does not include answering a call. I didn't realise you needed any

Re: Telephone API question - answering a call.

2010-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Matan, The phone DBus API is documented here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Phone_control And here: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?CSD%20programming%20information&id=1106&type=g You can see a Python example for listening to a DBus signal with Python here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Docum

Re: Quick start packaging guide

2010-01-25 Thread Dave Neary
Does i should also integrate an how to build package with PyPackager ? > > 2010/1/22 Jeff Moe mailto:m...@blagblagblag.org>>: > > On Friday 22 January 2010 13:10:29 Dave Neary wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Due to popular demand, I sat

Quick start packaging guide

2010-01-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, Due to popular demand, I sat down this week with Jeremiah Foster, who explained to me the very quickest way to go about packaging an application. We didn't quite get to "uploading to extras", but going from a .tar.gz to a correct .deb is there. http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_packaging_quick_

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Moe wrote: > Also, perhaps I'm missing it, but it seems really hard to even figure out who > the maemo staff is. Perhap I'm missing the obvious wiki page with this info > (ala http://wiki.maemo.org/People ). Who is the paid maemo staff? Right up at the top of the People page: "The maem

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Moe wrote: > People have been preaching patience (not just to me, to everyone) > since I landed here and before. Why should we be patient? Why can't > we demand things work like they do everywhere else? I'm sure > google/apple would love for us to be patient for the next 3 years. I guess

Re: oFono

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Dave Neary wrote: Oops - sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the mailing list. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: oFono

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Aki, It looks like your submission has been accepted. I will confirm 100% today or tomorrow. Cheers, Dave. Aki Niemi wrote: > ma, 2010-01-11 kello 08:38 +0100, Denis-Courmont Remi (Nokia-D/Helsinki) > kirjoitti: >> On Saturday 09 January 2010 08:40:29 ext Qole, you wrote: >>> So wait, you're

Re: [maemo-devel] List emails subject prefix

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Get yourself proper email client which will sort your mail into folders. > There > is X-BeenThere: maemo-developers@maemo.org in each email from this ML. Personally I find that filtering email from mailing lists into folders is a sure-fire way to ensure that I ne

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Jeff, Jeff Moe wrote: > I've had my device for 1200 hours so far (50 days). For how many of > those hours have the various services been down? I'm not sure > everything has ever been working for a full complete day. "Break in > the corners"? That's quite a gloss. You could accomplish a lot mor

Re: running application automatically at system startup

2010-01-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Edward Page wrote: > Is anyone collecting these "How do I..." questions and putting them on the > wiki? http://wiki.maemo.org/Tutorials http://wiki.maemo.org/User_FAQ http://wiki.maemo.org/Developer_FAQ Psst... don't tell anyone, but it's a wiki. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Ema

Re: SVN moved permanently?

2010-01-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I couldn't find any server-move specific wiki page, so I put this information (and similar information for svn to gitorious) in http://wiki.maemo.org/Subversion Cheers, Dave. koos vriezen wrote: > 2010/1/16 Till Harbaum / Lists : >> Hi, >> >> it would imho be really a good idea if the maemo.

Re: News for FOSDEM

2010-01-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, maemo-develoeprs CCed with this useful information) Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Send an e-mail to Jonathan Riddell ( j...@jriddell.org ) if you want > presence in the KDE devroom. I sent an email to Kenny (the address listed on the devroom page) and got no reply. The same address was listed

Re: Package Building HOWTO

2009-12-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Moe wrote: > Yes, I do think it would be good to put it in the main namespace, but right > now I'm sort of ramping myself up to where everything is and how it is all > set > up. I didn't want to munge up the main pages yet. ;) Writing this up is a > learning experience for me as I go

Re: How remove package from extra-devel free?

2009-12-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Darren Long wrote: > Hmm. IANAL, but in my naivety, I would have thought that maemo.org would > have to provide source for the binaries they (have) distribute(d). Indeed! But the source and the binaries are not the same thing. There are a few ways to deal with the source requirement - and

Re: How remove package from extra-devel free?

2009-12-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Darren Long wrote: > Out of curiosity, assuming its a GPL package, wouldn't you have to leave the > source in the repo for 3 years or something? Don't confuse a written offer to provide source code with availability of a binary. In short, anyone who has already downloaded the application ca

Reminder for FOSDEM devrooms!

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, Deadlines are approaching for various Maemo related FOSDEM devrooms: KDE: http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/15/speakers-wanted-fosdem-2010 Deadline: Jan 3rd GNOME: http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Devroom Deadline: Jan 8th Crossdistro: http://fosdem.org/2010/distrominiconf Deadline: None lis

Re: maemo extras downloads keeps resetting description for liqtorch and liqflow

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Niels Breet wrote: > On Fri, December 18, 2009 14:30, Cornelius Hald wrote: >> Would it then be possible to remove those field from the site where you >> can manually edit this information? Because I think there the real >> confusion comes from. >> > To quote myself: > "The description field n

Re: Pushing optified Python libs

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Niels Breet wrote: > User _applications_ should be in user/* categories. (Basically everything > you want the end-user to see and be able to uninstall) Everything else > should never be in user. Where should it go? The packaging policy[1] only explicitly mentions user/* sections, as does the

Re: Bootstrapping the Maemo 6 Developer Guide

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Neary
Good idea! Moved page (with a redirect in place). Cheers, Dave. Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 14:07 +0200 schrieb Quim Gil: >> Have you ever seen a Developer Guide being created from scratch? Now is >> your chance, also to get involved. Complain and be bo

[Fwd: Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)]

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, At FOSDEM, Maemo will be engaged with four different dev-rooms: the Mobile dev-room, the distros mini-conf, the GNOME dev-room and the KDE dev-room. This year again there are plans for freedesktop.org talks in the GNOME dev-room. Can anyone interested in submitting a Maemo/Mer related tal

Re: Developers Guide

2009-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Keywan, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: > is there beside the Wike a Maemo 5 Developer Guide? > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide > > A lot of pages are still empty in this guide Which pages are empty, specifically? The goal is to have the developer documentation

Re: Qt or GTK+ which is better for developement

2009-12-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Abdul Mateen wrote: > I am a newbie for maemo , having extensive experience developing for > Android platform, I want to ask here, should I start with Qt ? or GTK+ > or they will have the same impact, is there any difference in between > the two considered with maemo development, officially GT

Re: Updating the info for Extras-devel non-free

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I know I'm not the only one confused here... Quim says: We are seeing more questions about this and actually the current information is misleading since it suggests that non-free packages can bypass the Extras-testing QA process, which is not true. And Jeremiah says: > He

Re: Updating the info for Extras-devel non-free

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, the information to upload binary-only packages to extras-devel is > out of date: > http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras-devel#.22non-free.22_packages > > Yet there are several non-free packages in extras-devel & extras-testing > / Extras. Can someone please update t

Re: independent home screen

2009-11-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Wang Baisheng wrote: > I want to use an independent home screen which has its own process, not > contained in the hildon-desktop. And now I have a desktop implemented by > gtk, but the hildon-desktop will cover it. What exactly is your question, please? You would like to know how to launch y

Documentation hackfest in Barcelona

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Neary
[reposted from maemo-community - please excuse the double posting for those people subscribed to both] Hi all, We're planning a documentation hackefest in Barcelona as part of the Barcelona weekend in December (2.5 short weeks away), and you are all active in community documentation efforts (or h

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Graham Cobb wrote: > I have asked Nokia and they are not willing to release the documentation for > the CSD services. Their reasons include supportability (the interfaces may > change) and that they are trying to push oFono as the right long term > solution (although it isn't here yet). I've

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: > We are asking the renaming of pure end user apps called "Maemo > Something" in order to avoid confusion of what is official and what is not. Just to be clear, when you say "what is official", what do you mean? Is this applications shipped with the device by default? Or appl

Re: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Edward Page wrote: > To help remind people that there is a checklist and whats on it, > should the rating page link to or include the criteria? > > I see there were no notes on the algorithm. A threshold of 10 was > annoying as a developer. As a tester, a threshold of 10 made me feel > more

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