Re: New theme

2008-09-11 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, I would like to experiment with the parameters in the gtkrc file, but to avoid damaging any of the themes shipped with diablo, I thought that I would work on a copy of one of the standard themes. When I do that, the new theme is not offered as an option in Control panel | Themes. I must

Re: testing on a real Nokia device

2008-09-10 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, 1) Assuming that I purchase the device from an online store e.g. walmart, does it allow me to run applications written by me? Yes, my device is littered with applications written by me (some work and some do not but there you go) 2) If yes, In which case, I am would assume that N810 wimax

Re: GPS + Python + POI database + sqlite - small project , need your help

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hey, Source for gpsd already installed with maemo-mapper http://gpsd.berlios.de/ There are some reasons why gpsd might not be the best for resource constrained devices. I have successfully used gypsy before and i wrote up what i did here (for Ubuntu Mobile, but there is no reason why this

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Ian Lawrence
proprietary and open source components (Ubuntu (is Launchpad finally open?), Novell, IBM etc), it's not either or. It is in the In Progress queue apparently https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/50699/comments/10 and likely to be released Affero licensed. To me launchpad.net is kind of

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-03 Thread Ian Lawrence
The funny thing is that steps in the right direction like opening up the hildon input framework and HE where not pick up that well(IMHO...).This while we have screamed (and thus decided that is was important) thing to do. What you are saying that there is no path in between. we need

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, On the back of my post, maemo.org: what next?[1], it was interesting to read in yesterday's LWN that the community around OpenSolaris feels very much shut out of internal Sun development processes: I am seeing a lot of discussions around this at the moment. I really like this post

Re: BECOMEROOT

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, Another reason why N800 etc software doesn't work on 770 is hardware constraints. Less RAM, Flash and older OMAP version. I.e. unfortunately both HW and SW move forward... Whilst this may be true it also highlights something else. More recent software was never really *planned* to be

Re: BECOMEROOT

2008-04-16 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi, The issue is more that the whole Web 2.0 hasn't been planned to be run in 64MB of RAM. There are sites out there where a single Flash object or JavaScript script consumes more memory. Even 128MB is tight. But, I mean it is possible to increase the amount of memory available for a 770

Re: RFC: Proposal to solve multiple repository, poor QA situation

2008-01-17 Thread Ian Lawrence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ola, For source packages perhaps something along the lines of the Ubuntu PPA is necessary. Something like this [1] has already been started for Debian One idea is to adopt the svnbuildstat [2] package to work as a light server, that will accept

Glade Hildon

2007-12-04 Thread Ian Lawrence
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi It would be a significant advantage in terms of merging Hildon specific code changes upstream if glade integrated well with Hildon. Looking through the glade site it seems the recent release glade-3 was designed to ease the integration of external

Re: Porting to chinook

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Lawrence
Ola, #include hildon-1/hildon/hildon-program.h That's not the best way. You should check for hildon-1 pkg-config files in configure.in, which will add /usr/include/hildon-1 to your include path. Then, in the source files, you should include hildon/hildon-program.h. Yes, I did