Re: Programmatically showing the desktop in Fremantle

2010-01-14 Thread Simon Budig
obb770 (obb...@gmail.com) wrote: > Given that if there isn't a "good" way to do this, then it might not > be fixed in the Fremantle lifetime - is there an ugly way to show the > desktop? like simulating pressing the right place on the screen, > somehow getting into non-public API of hildon-desktop,

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-11 Thread Simon Budig
Marius Vollmer (marius.voll...@nokia.com) wrote: > The "/opt is hack" statement needs to be qualified, of course. "Moving > stuff into /opt/maemo" is a hack, of course. But at least in my > opinion, "Moving stuff into /opt//" is a bigger hack, and a > bigger violation of the letter and spirit of

Re: Fremantle dialogs at maximum size

2009-04-16 Thread Simon Budig
Till Harbaum / Lists (li...@harbaum.org) wrote: > how does one make a dialog fill the entire screen? [...] > The problem is that in non-fullscreen mode i am not limited and > the dialog is bigger than the usable screen space. Oh, so you actually did not want your dialog to fill the screen, you w

Re: Fremantle dialogs at maximum size

2009-04-15 Thread Simon Budig
Till Harbaum / Lists (li...@harbaum.org) wrote: > how does one make a dialog fill the entire screen? I am used to set the > dialog size to 800x480 and such a dialog will fill the entire screen when > fullscreen and will be shrinked appropriately when in non-fullscreen mode. I'd advise against fidd

Re: Maemo-mapper vector data backend follow-up

2008-09-23 Thread Simon Budig
Simon Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tile rendering > == > > There's a list of OSM rendering programs here [0]. > > Mapnik [1] is the program which renders the map tiles currently downloaded > by Maemo-mapper. This requires that the OSM MySQL database be processed and > turned

Re: Charger connected State

2008-09-16 Thread Simon Budig
unknown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you want to read it directly from the hardware, ADC #3 of retu chip > gives this information. Depending on your application it might be easier to monitor the dbus signals that happen when the charger gets inserted or removed. I don't have sample code availa

Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

2008-09-02 Thread Simon Budig
Darius Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [...] N 770 ( first in the world multitouch Internet tablet). N 770 > was really multitouch gizmo (just try to move web page with 2 > fingers). You're wrong here: what you're seeing when pressing multiple fingers on the touchscreen is some kind of "average"

Re: Who have an internal GPS application demo?

2008-08-13 Thread Simon Budig
dumganhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I am developing a GPS application! have found many informations >about GPS with bluetooth ,but I still can't find how to use interal >GPS!Could someone help me and give me a demo written by "C"? There is sample gps code available as well as docu

Re: Gtk Dialog box causing application to crash

2008-08-07 Thread Simon Budig
Jussi Kukkonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * gtk_dialog_run() makes the dialog modal, so you can't use several > dialogs at once. You'll have to connect to the "respose" signal and > and show the widget yourself. The dialog is not necessarily modal, if you want modal behaviour add "GTK_DIALOG

Re: Gtk Dialog box causing application to crash

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Budig
Arvind1 K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm facing a strange problem while using GTK+ Dialog box > I've used two dialogs one in IF and other in ELSE > > if (some condition) > { > GtkWidget *dialog1 = gtk_message_dialog_new (main_window, [...] > } else { > GtkWidget *dialog2 = gtk_message_dialog_ne

Re: Introduction to Maemo hacking on Maemo-Summit?

2008-07-29 Thread Simon Budig
Kate Alhola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > to use maemo SDK and then hands on workshop . I have > slide set for the presentation but for hands on it would be usefull > to have some other volunteers helping and answering questions. I volunteer. I have some experience using various aspects of Hildon

Re: Labels and right click / tap_and_hold pop up menus in gtk/gtkmm

2008-07-10 Thread Simon Budig
David Greaves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So this code snippet works when desc_b is a Gtk::Button > > GtkWidgetTapAndHoldFlags f; > gtk_widget_tap_and_hold_setup( > (GtkWidget*)(desc_b.gobj()), > (GtkWidget*)(pMenu->gobj()), NULL, f); > > But I want to use a Gtk::Label - and that doe

Re: LinuxTag ticket?

2008-05-15 Thread Simon Budig
Simon Pickering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [LinuxTag tickets] > No, they do cost a little: > * Day pass € 9 (reduced: € 5*) > * Four-day pass € 24 (reduced: € 13*) I don't know the exact procedure, but there definitely is a contingent of free e-tickets available, which have been distribute

Re: LinuxTag ticket?

2008-05-15 Thread Simon Budig
Dave Neary ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Simon Pickering wrote: > > Just a quick question. Do presenters need to buy a ticket or do they get in > > free as they are presenting? I'm not bothered either way but would like to > > know so I can get one in advance and get the discount. > > I have the sa

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

2008-01-29 Thread Simon Budig
Klaus Rotter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But I often think C++ has to many features (for sure I didn't know them > all) and it is bloated whereas I think I know pretty much features of C. I recently discovered the C++ FQA-lite at http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ It is an entertaining read for language

Re: How to judge if GtkWindow is on top of hildon desktop or NOT

2007-07-25 Thread Simon Budig
Zhu, Peter J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I used differnt solution. Hildon library has a special function of > hildon_window_get_is_topmost() to address this very elegantly. Yeah, I read your second mail after I replied :) It probably depends on what you want. If you just want to check if your a

Re: How to judge if GtkWindow is on top of hildon desktop or NOT

2007-07-25 Thread Simon Budig
Zhu, Peter J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried to use both gdk_window_is_visible and gtk_window_is_active to > judge if GtkWindow is on top of hildon desktop or not. But unfortunately > both fail to get correct result. Well, the result probably is correct, but does not describe the visibility

Re: Pymaemo GUI wrapper toolkit (v1)

2007-03-26 Thread Simon Budig
Daniel Amelang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 3/19/07, Sean Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/toolkit/ > > Awesome! There's a lot of useful stuff here. The object persistence is > really neat. Making gtk/hildon development easier is nice, too. A lot

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-20 Thread Simon Budig
Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Usually a nokia tablet does not > > have internet services running. Asking for iptables is like asking for a > > padlock, when your house does not have any doors. In that case the lock > > would not at all improve the security. > > Is it necessary my 770

Re: Security Guidance for N800 OS development

2007-02-20 Thread Simon Budig
Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Flaming doesn't go me well, so I will try. If I have security in my mind, > I would ask for openvms or openbsd. I use freebsd as my second skin, since > it is secure almost as openbsd and simple as reading mind. I could add > all kind of measures that harden

Re: [maemo-developers] Wii-Remote

2007-02-15 Thread Simon Budig
MoRpHeUz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Did you try using wii-mote driver for linux ? I think that Andreas > want to know that... Actually I have played around a bit with the wiimote on my laptop, but have not really made it into something real. It of course would be awesome to have this as an inpu

Re: [maemo-developers] Wii-Remote

2007-02-15 Thread Simon Budig
Brian Waite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007 15:35, Simon Budig wrote: > > Andreas Hubel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > has somebody already tried to connect a Wii-Remote with an Nokia 770 or > > > N800 via Bluetooth? > > > > Y

Re: [maemo-developers] Wii-Remote

2007-02-15 Thread Simon Budig
Andreas Hubel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > has somebody already tried to connect a Wii-Remote with an Nokia 770 or > N800 via Bluetooth? Yep. The N800 discovers the Wiimote fine, however, it does not allow connecting without a passcode. Passcode "" did not work. This would probably need some h

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: radio?!

2007-02-08 Thread Simon Budig
Anuj Verma (Kevin) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any idea if the hardware allows to play radio from built-in speakers ? > I could just listen to hizzz till I plug in headphones. In the toolbar there is a button to switch between headphone output and speaker output. The hardware definitely allows

[maemo-developers] activating individual control panel applets

2007-01-31 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. I am trying to activate the display control panel applet via dbus and I am kind of stuck. Entering the command dbus-send --session --print-reply /com/nokia/controlpanel/rpc \ com.bokia.controlpanel.rpc.run_applet \ string:disp_ap_application_title boolean:true prints the fo

Re: [maemo-developers] For want of a ... (Was: n800 camera specs)

2007-01-16 Thread Simon Budig
Matt Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But you are hacking on a device that is, if not 'ultra-proprietary', > definitely proprietary - there's lots of binary-only code in ITOS200 > [67]. Wouldn't you like to see that source, even though you couldn't > redistribute it? What would be the purp

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Budig
Dave Neuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 1/10/07, Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Now that sounds as if you haven't watched very closely what happened the > >last year or so. Claiming that Nokia did not provide hardware and (more > >importantly) c

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Budig
Dave Neuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Nokia was counting on the community to provide > that level of functionality for them, but won't pay us w/ the only > thing the open-source community cares about: code and documentation of > hardware. Now that sounds as if you haven't watched very closely wh

Re: [maemo-developers] Nokia 770 sources...

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Budig
Alessandro Ikeuchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor(mybuffer, "\u00E3", -1); gtk_text_buffer_insert_at_cursor () expects UTF-8 as the second argument. I don't know what C99 / C++ define for the "\u" excape sequences (probably wide chars or something like this), but I s

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo alarms ==> retutime

2006-07-31 Thread Simon Budig
Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On mån, 2006-07-31 at 13:29 +0200, ext Nils Faerber wrote: > > I would have expected such framework after the longish discussions on > > the mailinglist some time ago (effectively more than half a year ago). > > Since there isn't any c

Re: [maemo-developers] sounds through pygtk?

2006-07-25 Thread Simon Budig
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 7/25/06, Thanos Panousis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am searching for a way to produce sounds in a pygtk application > > running on maemo. Like, a callback to a function that produces a > > dialog box, with a bell sound. > > > > Found no

Re: [maemo-developers] flasher2 for linux PPC

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Budig
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it possible to install the maemo2 beta from a powerpc with linux? > flasher2 isn't available for powerpc and with flasher I had no success: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/prometoys/projekte/gnome/maemo# ./flasher.linux_ppc > -F BETA.SU-18_2006S

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: IT2006 EDS contacts

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Budig
Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:01 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have seen that the contacts are now centralized using EDS. > > In the contact, will a field "Phone Number" be included? > > I think that would be better for contact management. > > Phone numb

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] Maemo 2.0 beta published

2006-06-09 Thread Simon Budig
Brad Midgley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Today we published the maemo 2.0 beta on _http://www.maemo.org_. This > > release includes both the maemo 2.0 beta development environment and the > > Internet Tablet 2006 OS Beta image. For more details about the release > > you can check out _http://mae

Re: [maemo-developers] python on maemo

2006-05-09 Thread Simon Budig
Kasper Souren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Looks like it's not executing as Python, but as shell. > The first line should look something like #/usr/bin/python2.4 make that #!/usr/bin/python2.4 Hope this helps, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/

Re: [maemo-developers] Too busy to accept help? I'm not complaining

2006-04-20 Thread Simon Budig
Lorn Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Kalle Vahlman wrote: > >>The only "legal" difference of GPL and LGPL is > >>that GPL insures derived sources remain open. > > > >No. Sources will always remain open with LGPL too. It's the combining > >and linking with non-free (in fact, any) licensed work t

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.0 API changes, signals and properties

2006-04-19 Thread Simon Budig
Shawn Gordon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > but Qtopia would have been a lot less of a hassle. We need to invent the equivalent of Godwins law apparently. Bye, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ _

Re: [maemo-developers] How to keep app running indefinitely

2006-03-05 Thread Simon Budig
Steven Hill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have written an application for the Nokia 770 that I want to keep > running indefinitely - i.e. I want to stop the automatic process that > runs in the background and stops applications when there is nothing > going on for a long time, or to conserve power

Re: [maemo-developers] A set of development questions...

2006-01-24 Thread Simon Budig
Tomi Ollila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 3 Is there a compiler define that can be used in code to conditionally >compile code when targeting for 770 (and some other code when not for 770). >Currently I use the following kludgy hack: > >test -f /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher && XD=-DM4EM0

Re: [maemo-developers] Recovering from bad package install

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Budig
Neil Jerram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I accidentally try to install a package with a preinst or postrm > script, it fails as documented at > http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_making_an_application_package.html, > with an error message about not being able to chroot to > /var/lib

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-17 Thread Simon Budig
Aaron Levinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seriously doubt that this problem has anything to do with the Hildonized > GTK+, considering that special characters such as the German umlaut work > fine in my VNC viewer port (at least with the virtual keyboard). In > addition, an examination of the

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-16 Thread Simon Budig
Tomas Junnonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - You can search for keyboards and choose a specific one to connect to. > - You can pair the keyboard to the 770. Once paired, powering on the > keyboard will associate it with the 770 and you can simply start > typing away. Convenient! That rocks!

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Simon Budig
e broken stuff." Sorry, this is *not* good software engineering. > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:50, ext Simon Budig wrote: > > The crontab(1) command cannot add an entry to the crontab, all it can do > > is pop up $EDITOR for the user to edit the crontab. Not what you want. > &g

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Simon Budig
Kimmo Hämäläinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess the 'API' is crontab(1) + crontab(5). It has probably been > tested in the course of time and proven good and stable. Uh, not if you have potentially multiple programs simultaneously modifying the crontab. One faulty program could mess up your

Re: [maemo-developers] Integration with the backup tool

2006-01-08 Thread Simon Budig
Philip Van Hoof ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It would be nice if it would be possible to integrate with the backup > software of the Nokia. > > That way, in case an upgrade of the device is a necessity, the user > wouldn't have to run all the backup softwares of all the ISV's that > created softwa

Re: [maemo-developers] btcond / d-bus problems

2006-01-01 Thread Simon Budig
Andrew Ramsay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I started off with the basic example program which just connects to the > session bus, lists the services available, then exits. That works fine > with both session and system buses. I then tried to modify it slightly to > obtain a proxy for the "com.no

Re: [maemo-developers] RFC: Redesigning the HildonApp+Views

2005-12-20 Thread Simon Budig
Komulainen Tommi (Nokia-M/Helsinki) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 01:27 +0100, ext Simon Budig wrote: > > Right now the code has to dive into different codepaths for native GTK > > vs. Hildon, so that hildon gets an appview into the window and the rest >

Re: [maemo-developers] RFC: Redesigning the HildonApp+Views

2005-12-16 Thread Simon Budig
Hi. Tommi Komulainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Essentially the change would be to introduce a new widget (maybe > HildonWindow or something) that would replace current HildonAppView. The > new widget would be a real GtkWindow / toplevel X window which will > require code changes when migrating

Re: [maemo-developers] TZ environment variable in desktop application

2005-12-12 Thread Simon Budig
Simon Budig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For some reason the TZ environment variable is set inside the > maemo_af_desktop application (which is the process the statusbar applets > run in). Unfortunately it seems to be set to a nonsensical value (for me > it was something like "8#\

Re: [maemo-developers] application startup problem

2005-11-18 Thread Simon Budig
Chris Bare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > osso_initialize() WARNING: if the system bus activated this program, Libosso > does not connect to the session bus! > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > even though my scratchbox environment has DISPLAY exported (s

Re: [maemo-developers] application startup problem

2005-11-18 Thread Simon Budig
Chris Bare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to get the scratchbox environment set up following the tutorial. > I've got xephyr running, and I run af-sb-init.sh start > It works, but instead of displaying "Home" I see "home_ap_home_name". > I've got LANGUAGE=en_GB is there something else I ne

Re: [maemo-developers] using maemo mailing lists

2005-11-15 Thread Simon Budig
Toni Willberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. > > It seems that many people are confused about which list to mail to. > > IMHO the lists should be used as follows: > > maemo-users: > - "how to ..." > - "I found a bug in ..." > - "I think QT rocks..." > - "where to ..." > - issues abo

Re: [maemo-developers] virtual keyboard

2005-11-14 Thread Simon Budig
Brano Kemen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > However, after each word selected from the suggestions, an > additional space is appended - which is fine, since most of the time > follows another word. But if there comes a comma, period, or if I want > to extend the word with -s or -ed or such, I c

Re: [maemo-developers] Where to discuss 770 problems.. - memory card failure

2005-11-11 Thread Simon Budig
Brad Clements ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Perhaps I need to do a hard reset of the 770? > > But, I can't find how to do that. There's a hole on the bottom. Tempted to > shove a paperclip in there, but don't want to fry the device.. Don't do this, there is a microphone in there. You can switch

[maemo-developers] TZ environment variable in desktop application

2005-11-11 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. As some of you know, I am writing a applet for the statusbar that simply displays a clock. It turns out that this is not exactly easy... For some reason the TZ environment variable is set inside the maemo_af_desktop application (which is the process the statusbar applets run in). Unfortun

Re: [maemo-developers] Finding MAC address

2005-10-20 Thread Simon Budig
Jesper Zuschlag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anybody knows if it is possible to locate the MAC address of a 770 out > of the box (with-out resorting to stuff like installing a shell)? The MAC is printed on a label below the battery. Hope this helps. Si"just recieved my Nokia 770 today...

Re: [maemo-developers] Releasing an application...

2005-08-13 Thread Simon Budig
Mayank Jain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I clean the project directory, ie the files generated by my > ./autogen.sh & ./configure scripts? Have a look at the project > directory... How can i clean it up so as i can tar the directory & > release it. Are there any general guidelines (except ma

Re: [maemo-developers] Gimp port

2005-08-04 Thread Simon Budig
Kalle Vahlman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 8/4/05, Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main problem with the memory consumtion is a mechanism called the > > "projection", which holds the composited image (all layers merged > > together). This is

Re: [maemo-developers] Gimp port

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Budig
Let me introduce myself before the actual reply. My name is Simon Budig, I am involved with the GIMP development since about 1998, working at the University of Siegen and learned about the Nokia 770 via Florian and Nils. I can't wait to get my own device :-) Koen Kooi ([EMAIL PROTECTED])