Re: Double checking free/nonfree packages

2009-12-01 Thread David Greaves
igate this kind of data so maybe they could be dug up? David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Command line apps & Extras

2009-11-29 Thread David Greaves
hell interface::daemon http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ [snipped the rest which is fine] David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Debhelper 7

2009-11-28 Thread David Greaves
Do you have a URL for the .dsc and tarball David Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to compile / port some C libraries from Debian to Maemo 5. > The actual compilation goes without problems, but the packaging > scripts use the (very nice) command sequencer functional

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

2009-11-25 Thread David Greaves
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:07 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 14:55, David Greaves wrote: > > > > Does the community really have so much spare resource that we can QA > > non-free (and presumably non-community) apps? > > fms/RST38h's emulator

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

2009-11-25 Thread David Greaves
x27;t have unless it QA's them; from that PoV I think providing a place for the app's userbase to QA the apps is fine but I feel that they should be separate to a community queue. David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

Re: Packaging a bookmark?

2009-11-20 Thread David Greaves
kaging this up as a desktop/app mgr launch icon is the way to go. Nokia led the way with the 'ovi store' link. Eventually maybe we'll see better presentation... but the issue may need forcing. I do worry about a proliferation of packaged web links though - I thin I'd like some k

Re: how build a package?

2009-11-15 Thread David Hautbois
http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/Maemo_Diablo_Reference_Manual_for_maemo_4.1.pdf p466 mohamed ismael wrote: > hi, > i built an executable file using the following command > gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs profile hildon-1` main.c -o main > > i want now to build a package to

Re: debhelper-maemo-package-icons

2009-11-10 Thread David King
at >debian/package-name.png is a 26x26 PNG file. You mean 48x48 pixels, right? http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Packaging%2C_Deploying_and_Distributing#Icons -- David King | http://amigadave.blogspot.com/ | dav...@openismus.com ___

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-09 Thread David Greaves
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:16 +0200, Gabriel Schulhof wrote: > Hey, all! > > I added a package to the extras(-devel)? repositories called > maemo-release. It has version 1.0.0 in gregale, 2.0.0 in bora, 3.0.0 in > Chinook, etc. ... Cool... what values did you pick

Re: DBus service name

2009-11-09 Thread David King
//maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/libosso/group__Init.html#g05d45d1e72c2cd74f665086225141431 -- David King | http://amigadave.blogspot.com/ | dav...@openismus.com ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread David Greaves
cf talk is substantially less than the barrier to entry of a private school. Anyone from talk is welcome to join the list provided they plan on engaging in development oriented discussions (and yes, they do meander - no-one cares *that* much). David ___

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-02 Thread David Greaves
s, social, media, music professional: spreadsheets, sync apps technical: network sniffers, encryption tools, CLI David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread David Greaves
y programs result in nothing? Ah, the actual point :) (and a good one too). Alongside 'user/*' I wonder if we should have a 'geek/*' section ? Or make 'user/development' and some other categories only visible if enabled in preferences. Personally I think we're ba

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread David Greaves
lls you something over 0.0.1): > the Application Manager only shows things of the form (\d+)(\.\d+)*? > > So, the example of 2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu6maemo1 would > just appear as 2.0.0 in the view. /me would be confused. Why is it upgrading 2.0.0 to 2.0.0 *ag

Re: The issue of version strings

2009-10-29 Thread David Greaves
Ryan Abel wrote: > One thing I think it might be worth working on is the user- > friendliness of the version strings of packages in Extras. We want the > Application manager to be as friendly and approachable for the average > user as possible and long incomprehensible lines of alphanumerics a

Re: Using Git and garage.maemo.org: Some issues...

2009-10-26 Thread David King
date the websites from the www/ path in the Git repository is run every twenty minutes, I think. >You can see my progress history here: > >https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/ggit/browse.php/?p=hermes;a=summary > >As you'll see, I committed my new files last ni

Re: Packaging Libraries

2009-10-25 Thread David Falkayn
I appreciate all the responses. As i suspected, this is one of those things that is confusing when starting out, but very straightforward once up to speed. I have the package for libmikmod2 ready to upload when i get permission, and have also got the much more challenging game package that depends

Re: mbarcode/maemo-barcode dialog oddity and progress report

2009-10-24 Thread David Galicia
The nokia internet tablets are a steal! I would love to see more linux-enabled devices being used in small business. And maybe, if these tablets get enough attention, nokia can roll out a hardy mobile device running maemo that's designed for industrial environments.

Re: Packaging Libraries

2009-10-23 Thread David Falkayn
kage (2) modify package (3) create new package. It's the details of how to best do this that i'm wondering about. Assume i know nothing and you'll probably be the closest to understanding my question. ;) On 10/23/09, Claudio Saavedra wrote: > El vie, 23-10-2009 a las 00:37 -0400, Da

Packaging Libraries

2009-10-22 Thread David Falkayn
Here's a question for you whiz kids: what's the best way to go about packaging up a library that already exists, e.g. in debian, for Maemo? Presumably the process is easier than starting from scratch, but after fiddling around with various things and some nice help on IRC, i got nuttin. __

Re: maemo.org/packages not identifying new version correctly?

2009-10-22 Thread David King
On 2009-10-22 11:37, Niels Breet wrote: >Hi, >On Wed, October 21, 2009 17:28, David King wrote: >> I uploaded glom 1.12.2-0maemo2 to extras-devel yesterday evening, which >> built fine. However, looking at: >> >> http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/

maemo.org/packages not identifying new version correctly?

2009-10-21 Thread David King
dependency warning, that is not present in the 1.12.2-0maemo2 version (which I uploaded to fix exactly this problem). I can install 1.12.2-0maemo2 on an N900, so the dependency problem does not seem to be an issue, but maybe the package description is somehow stale? -- David King | http

Re: Built-in reverse geocoding in Maemo 5?

2009-10-13 Thread David King
-final/cityinfo/cityinfo_8c.html -- David King | http://amigadave.blogspot.com/ | dav...@openismus.com ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

2009-09-25 Thread David Greaves
of malware introduced into an OSS product and we (and Nokia) could lose a lot of credibility. I wonder how much that could be worth to some people? Maybe worth a deliberate attack? Maybe someone is playing a longer game? I just hope we are not planning on taking the "cross your fingers and toes *REA

What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

2009-09-24 Thread David Greaves
I realise this is a slightly different question (hence the new subject) OK, say I have an evil twin who wants to attack ('own') a lot of Nokia N900 devices. How do I do this? Does extras-testing factor into this? David tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: > - Original message -

Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread David Greaves
o the I/O This afternoon I created a garage project and then wrote an article: http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2009/09/want-to-push-need-kickstart.html Never mind... Hmm, can I get dispensation to enter PUSH using a $100 SmartQ ? Maybe I could run ssh from the N900 and have the N900 drive a Maemo po

Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread David Greaves
#x27;s in usb-host mode? > > Greetings > > [1] http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/ I saw the interesting responses to the 'hijack' about gadget mode - but did you get an answer to the host mode question Kees? I'm quite interested in this too... David -- "Don&#

Re: Fremantle: Opening URLs and local files

2009-09-17 Thread David Greaves
where is the D-Bus call documented (sample code would be enough ;). Try this http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman/2009/09/03/writing-apps-for-the-n900-part-1/ This came up a few days back; subject: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle) there's a bit more in that thread David -- "Don't wo

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread David Greaves
; We actually seem to be in agreement here: Fremantle packaging decisions > should take other systems (OS2008, Mer, etc.) into account. Sure - lets chalk it down to email missing the nuances :) David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread David Greaves
Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Thomas Perl writes: > >> 2009/9/9 Marius Vollmer : >>> ext David Greaves writes: >>> >>>> Hmm, seems like another solution would be to have the opt partition >>>> mounted as >>>> /usr and install all

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread David Greaves
Doable - but to expect other devs to do that? At the moment 'porting' an app is usually a semi-automated process. Having to figure out the debian/rules for each and then hacking their ./configure to --prefix=/opt Oh boy PLEASE don't require a ./configure change optify is th

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread David Greaves
Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Greaves wrote: > >> Matan Ziv-Av wrote: >>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Andrew Flegg wrote: >>>> * Use of /opt is perhaps now a QA requirement for Extras >>>> * Can we somehow add a /opt check into minima

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread David Weinehall
7;s not an artificial obstacle, it's a way to work around the sad reality that VFAT is a.) de facto standard, b.) a seriously useless file system, c.) most users are unable to cope with better alternatives. But by all means, if you think this is an artificial obstacle, please suggest alternative so

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread David Greaves
e only maemo. Maemo4 is the latest > availble for N800/N810 and maemo2 is the latest officailly available on > 770. Many packages can compile from same source for all versions. Don't > add artificial obstacles to force developers to make their packages > incompatible with olde

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread David Weinehall
t doesn't know what scp is. IMHO we have three options: - Real VFAT (with all the drawbacks it brings) - VVFAT - A separate program (PC Suite, most likely) to do the transfers (probably leaving Linux and MacOS users out in the cold) Regards: David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread David Weinehall
ot see technical limits, but > maybe someone should just code a relevant kernel module (the virtual > VFAT loopdevice ;) if that does not exist. Patches happily accepted! regards: David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread David Greaves
s to /root_usr/ and then it works without /usr mounted and when it is overmounted by the other partition it wouldn't change. Then /usr would be much like Debian upstream - the place to install larger data files David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a carto

Re: [Qt4Maemo-devel] The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-08 Thread David Greaves
Kees Jongenburger wrote: > Hi David, > > I assume you want to present to also have some discussion. so let's > start with that. This is all IMHO. Sure. > I don't believe that version control system is what is keeping us back > from collaborating. I do use git mys

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread David Greaves
okia.osso_browser.load_url string:"http://www.google.com"; > Brent, try this too - it shows usage of the interface daniel refers to. http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman/2009/09/03/writing-apps-for-the-n900-part-1/ I assume C - I'm doing something similar in python later too

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-07 Thread David Greaves
t is a good idea to start from making a list on Qt to function exactly > like it functions on the Hildon. I've asked Antontio to start a project so we can create a set of hildon-widgets. IIRC we also need to do dbus integration too. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-04 Thread David Greaves
s coming ... Cool - what's the gitorious url ;) We have: http://gitorious.org/qt-maemo So: http://gitorious.org/qt-maemo/hildon-widgets sounds good Antonio ... want to set it up? (I can't) David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once...&qu

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-04 Thread David Greaves
?id=4625 We have these figures from the maemomm project: http://maemomm.garage.maemo.org/docs_unstable/tutorial/figures/ David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-04 Thread David Greaves
nd Qt - maybe not so much for others? Jamie Bennett wrote: > Please see my comments in-line below. > > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:57 +0100, David Greaves wrote: >> I proposed a talk at the summit on DVCS and git and it has not been accepted >> by >> t

Re: The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-04 Thread David Greaves
Graham Cobb wrote: >However, time is limited and if it has to be bumped for other > good sessions then so be it. Fully agree. My intention was to raise it and sound out the developers. see Jamie's comments too. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw

The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-04 Thread David Greaves
opportunity that we shouldn't miss. Equally there must be developers in Nokia/Trolltech who could say "we know this stuff and this is how we think you might want to do it." So... speak now... David PS If anyone fancies collaborating and doing a multi-person presentation then

Commenting and doc annotation (was: Code cookbook for Maemo?)

2009-09-02 Thread David Greaves
be great for the Maemo docs; it needs some work but... David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-31 Thread David Greaves
Mer build needs: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build I've started some light blogging about how we use OBS: http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-distro.html David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread David Greaves
Ed Bartosh wrote: > 2009/8/26 David Greaves : >> Ed Bartosh wrote: >>> 2009/8/26 Graham Cobb : >>>> Will it handle build dependencies? I.e. if I create an autobuild tag for >>>> libaaa and also for application-aaa (with a build dependency on libaaa),

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread David Greaves
PI-incompatible version... Without dependency tracking no-one even notices. So whilst they may not clamour for it, they probably do need it. Oh, and OBS is looking at exactly the same tag->build too. Seems a shame that there are so many partially finished wheels around... David -- "Do

Re: Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

2009-08-25 Thread David Weinehall
On tis, 2009-08-25 at 09:25 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:39 +0300, David Weinehall wrote: > > On mån, 2009-08-24 at 22:12 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:07 +0300, David Weinehall wrote: > > > > MCE

Re: Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

2009-08-24 Thread David Weinehall
On mån, 2009-08-24 at 22:12 +0200, ext Cornelius Hald wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:07 +0300, David Weinehall wrote: > > MCE only listens to the system bus, maybe this is your problem? > > Unfortunately not, I tried both the system bus and the session bus. On > both I get t

Re: Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

2009-08-24 Thread David Weinehall
_init(&error); > reply = dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block(connection, message, > -1, &error); > > > I hope someone can help, oh and by the way I'm a DBus noob, so it might > be

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-24 Thread David King
guess is used in PyMaemo too? Our other tool for wrapping a C API to a C++ API is gmmproc, which does much of the more clever transformations, for example changing NULL to 0. I guess that a lot of this would not be relevant for PyMaemo, but the gmmproc tool is in glibmm if you are interest

Re: Search in extras / extras-devel before uploading a new package

2009-07-21 Thread David King
more details. >- Should a garage page be created ? Only if you have Maemo-specific changes, and don't plan on merging them into nano upstream, I would say. -- David King | http://amigadave.blogspot.com/ | dav...@openismus.com ___ maemo-develo

Re: cgdb (full-screen debugger) works in scratchbox (!)

2009-07-17 Thread David Greaves
> import from debian/ubuntu, really). > > Version I compiled is 0.6.4, from Jaunty repos. Hmm, let me just apt-get install emacs in my Mer SDK; yep and gud... yep that's fine. All running in arm under qemu... yep. Cool. David PS Heh - now if only apt-get source worked we&#

Request for assistance for Mer.. technical cross-compile packaging day 15th + 19th July

2009-07-13 Thread David Greaves
another crack on the 19th. The main skills needed are going to be packaging related although if you know about cross-compiling and are around then (hopefully) we may have some questions at some point. If you are interested and feel you can help then please let me know and turn up; if you're no

Re: Clean build environment

2009-07-09 Thread David Greaves
Kees Jongenburger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David Greaves wrote: >> Graham Cobb wrote: >>> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 12:35:35 Ed Bartosh wrote: >>>> There is such a tool and autobuilder is uses it. >>>> It's called sbdmock and you can f

Re: Clean build environment

2009-07-08 Thread David Greaves
thing and see if that fixes the problem, etc, etc?). OBS (which we're using in Mer) does something like this too http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build Everything builds from a pristine chroot. I'm working on creating a pseudo package called 'sdk' which gives you more of what you

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

2009-07-07 Thread David Greaves
ll this help? http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3878 David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

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

2009-07-06 Thread David Weinehall
remove "homekey;" from the Modules. Note that this will affect all uses of the home key, so don't do this on general purpose devices. There might be more fine-grained ways to disable it, but none that I know of. Hope this helps. Regards: David

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 An

FYI : ConnMan deconstructed : http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/25/networkmanager-and-connman/

2009-07-03 Thread David Greaves
I thought this would be of interest to the list. Also some good comments here: http://lwn.net/Articles/338715/ David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-

Re: Beagleboard touchscreens?

2009-07-02 Thread David Greaves
David Greaves wrote: > Murray Cumming wrote: >> I'm going to buy some BeagleBoards for the Openismus office. >> http://beagleboard.org/ >> I'd like to try installing Maemo 5 on them, which I believe is possible, >> and which will be a learning experience. >

Re: Beagleboard touchscreens?

2009-06-30 Thread David Greaves
heap SmartQ 5/7, install Mer on it, disable Mer and run VNC or just remote X. presto... untethered display (or use a USB cable for that 20th century feel) David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___

Re: Mer Development Update

2009-06-18 Thread David Greaves
ion_control_systems.ogg Ah, yes now if you'd said madduck on #vcs-pkg then I'd have known ;) We've discussed this a bit and he's advised me. I'm going to publish this to their mailing list and you may well recognise the diagrams on my page and those on vcs-pkg.org...

Re: Mer Development Update

2009-06-18 Thread David Greaves
hink there is room for lots of innovation here. I've just updated this... not had chance to proof read it even :) http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/UsingGitorious nb Maint diagram is missing a yellow tag dot at the very least David -- "Don't worry, you'l

Mer Development Update

2009-06-18 Thread David Greaves
Hi I realise that we spend a lot of time on irc and it may be worth mentioning some things on email. First off - please ask if there are any Mer questions... I'll do my best to answer. I've updated pages around here recently: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build There is a step-by-step guide to i

WONTFIX BUGS.... was Re: Default nice value setting

2009-06-17 Thread David Greaves
ny current system :-) Just thinking that it would be interesting and productive for Nokians to do a trawl of WONTFIXes and add "but if I were going to fix it, this is where I'd start"... and then possibly work with us on re-assigning them to an appropriate Mer category... David -- &qu

Re: Fremantle OpenGL wrapper?

2009-06-02 Thread David Greaves
tives. I understood that GL wasn't going to be available to the apps on the device... something about the window manager permanently taking the only viewport? I am not sure if this is a beta-phase bug or a hardware or GLES issue. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it w

Re: Fremantle UI Portrait Mode

2009-06-01 Thread David Greaves
n we look at maemo on a slightly squarer device with a different windowmanager layout. Surely XRRScreenChangeNotifyEvent should be supported since this actually provides 'orientation' which is what IU the UI guidelines suggest working to. Maybe even abstracted to a hig

Re: Problems with the fremantle autobuilder...

2009-05-26 Thread David Greaves
d others think that if a package P with a given version X is uploaded and fails to build then a subsequent attempt to upload package P version X should not be rejected. Once package P version X has been successfully built then a subsequent attempt to upload package P version X should be rejected.

Re: Problems with the fremantle autobuilder...

2009-05-26 Thread David Greaves
a test install and see if you need to tweak a path or something; again you don't record all that in different changelog entries. IMHO promotion/publish is the only time an autobuilder should refuse to run if the version is <= the last published version.

Re: Does Maemo's Qt look like Hildon?

2009-05-25 Thread David Greaves
Antonio Aloisio wrote: > Hi David, > > IMHO most of the extended hildon widgets could be dropped. > Hildon widgets like hildon banners instead need to be integrated inside Qt. Agreed - there are many Qt widgets which could simply be hildonised. I wonder about session management and

Re: Does Maemo's Qt look like Hildon?

2009-05-25 Thread David Greaves
hese in Hildon Qt? In which case it would be good to identify and prioritise targets and achievements and it would also be nice to have reference information for IPC for things like system interaction. I also wonder about better handling for applications not written for Maemo; sho

Re: Qt/hildon input integration ?

2009-05-21 Thread David Greaves
thoughts are that it should really be triggered by some kind of focus/cursor-set event (is there one?) Also I wonder about using dynamic properties... Should the keyboard query the object for a "no-hildon-keyb" property and not display one if it is set? David ps cc'ing qt4-devel --

Re: Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

2009-05-21 Thread David Greaves
7;s a big text view occupying a > significant part of the screen. Personally I think the developer should have the choice :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TxAIScXQvk Look at 3:20 onwards David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _

Re: Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

2009-05-19 Thread David Greaves
xplaining your solution :) Err I implemented that into the framework so it *is* an "out of the box solution" for Qt :) I kinda meant that it could/should be doable for the pannable gtk too. Nb the source to both is available so you can see how I did it in Qt and port it and submit i

Re: Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

2009-05-19 Thread David Greaves
nning gesture. If it was the queue was discarded; if not the events were replayed to the correct widgets. The decision was simply delta mouse movement within a time period. This allowed selection and even drag'n'drop to "just work". David -- "Don

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-04 Thread David Greaves
ild on an out-of-the-box tablet. Extras, we hope, would be suitable. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-01 Thread David Greaves
ll_packages_from_this_repository_the_world_may_end is called extras-devel; feel free to add it to your sources.list David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Reduce fremantle button spacing

2009-04-16 Thread David Greaves
he equivalent of http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qapplication.html#globalStrut-prop - but I guess you use gtk) David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Where To Upload GPG Key??

2009-04-03 Thread David Greaves
Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote: sig: question = ( to ) ? be : ! be; PATCH: - question = ( to ) ? be : ! be; + question = ( to ) ? be : be; since: to -> be, (! to) -> be => question David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fin

Re: Gsoc Idea Barcode Reader

2009-03-30 Thread David Greaves
you hooks into a few areas and some well defined but well linked breakpoints for the project. It also lets you link to non-python solutions. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: osso, muali , dbus and Qt closeEvent()s

2009-03-25 Thread David Greaves
e dbus for WS_HILDON David Antonio Aloisio wrote: > Hi, > IMHO using the Qt D-Bus API to rewrite some parts of libosso is more > easy that resolve the symobls, load and use libosso in Qt. > Kimmo said adding D-Bus dependencies in the widget is ugly, I agree > with him.. but...

Re: osso, muali , dbus and Qt closeEvent()s

2009-03-25 Thread David Greaves
sso/ossodm.nsf/WebAllByID2/DSD07052-EN > (currently in Nokia intranet only) Ah, I don't have that - can you post it? > As I said, Hildon widgets and Gtk do not use libosso at all (it would be > quite ugly since libosso depends on D-Bus connections). agreed - I

Re: osso, muali , dbus and Qt closeEvent()s

2009-03-24 Thread David Greaves
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:44 +0100, ext David Greaves wrote: >> Hi >> >> Crossposting as I think this is a maemo-dev question of interest to Qt devs >> :) >> >> I am having a problem with my Qt applications and the osso window manage

osso, muali , dbus and Qt closeEvent()s

2009-03-23 Thread David Greaves
ide hdwm.startupnotification or starting Nor do I see it on the dbus-monitor --session when my gtk app runs. Any pointers? David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

GStreamer xvimagesink performance issue

2009-03-04 Thread David Festacho
rder to get the very same original binary (or at least one that performs similarly? Best regards, David _ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/p

RE: introducing friendscard -- a browser-less, gesture-based facebook client

2009-02-05 Thread David Weinehall
ACKAGE_VERSION_*.changes > > If yes, what's the instruction for generating the > PACKAGE_VERSION_*.changes file? If you build the Debian packages (.deb) the *proper* way (using dpkg-buildpackage or debuild), then you get the .changes file automatically (together with a .dsc file,

Re: Samba support dropped (was Re: N810 WE)

2009-01-21 Thread David Hagood
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 08:40 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > > ext David Hagood wrote: > > OK, fair enough, but then here's what I see Nokia needs to do in order > > to enable that: > > Thanks for the input! Do you mind filing enhancement requests at > http://bugs.maemo

Re: Samba support dropped (was Re: N810 WE)

2009-01-20 Thread David Hagood
>From previous comments by Nokia, the reason that SMB support is being dropped is that Gnome VFS support is being dropped, and that was how SMB was being supported in the previous versions. OK, I can understand that: I always felt that userspace was the wrong place to manage file systems anyway.

Re: busybox symlinks discussion

2008-12-15 Thread David Horn
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext David Horn wrote: >>>> >>>> Since rm and tar will disappear as part of dpkg removing diablo >>>> busybox prior to installing my new busybox (as already discussed, this >>

busybox symlinks discussion

2008-12-15 Thread David Horn
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > I put CC to maemo-devel. > > ext David Horn wrote: >> >> I just wanted to see if I could help out with the issue of busybox >> .deb packaging, and the issue of symlinks and conflcts. >> >&

Re: Maemo & Linux mainstream

2008-10-25 Thread David Greaves
e-Bluetooth-Data-Logger-Receiver/dp/B000NK3G2Q iBlue 747 (because that's essentially a hardware requirement unless you're wish-listing for the N9xx) David PS Really - the 747 sounds perfect for whay you want - rugged, small, long lasting, excellent GPS performance. -- "Don'

Re: PIM stuff (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-25 Thread David Greaves
Graham Cobb wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2008 16:46:12 Sarah Newman wrote: >> David Greaves wrote: >>> I propose: >>> * The GPE suite (especially synchronising) >>> * Canola (some limitations that become annoying quickly) >> GPE seconded FWIW. I migh

Re: PIM stuff (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-24 Thread David Greaves
Quim Gil wrote: > More? I propose: * The GPE suite (especially synchronising) * Canola (some limitations that become annoying quickly) David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-

Re: Community Maemo distribution

2008-10-05 Thread David Greaves
Ryan Abel wrote: > Any alternative suggestions? Fraemo ? David ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Integration with hildon desktop

2008-10-01 Thread David Greaves
image - so I can test install to a fresh system. David -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Is there a roadmap for opening of binary blobs of N8x0 hardware ?

2008-09-25 Thread David Weinehall
make predictions about other components, but for the battery software a well-educated guess is "Never", and the reasons are manifold: possible liability issues, patents, and the fact that it's software developed by another branch of Nokia rather than interna

Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

2008-09-23 Thread David Greaves
day - if this was lkml and the flood of messages drowned you out (or if you intend to flood the list!) then I'd understand; equally if you were working on something that was not maemo-specific then it would make sense. Otherwise I'd like to see you hang out here :) David -- "Don&#x

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