qt-components-blanco-theme in Extras-Devel is empty/missing files?

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, I'm currently looking into how well Qt Quick Components are supported on Fremantle. The package "qt-quick-components" installs fine and works, but without having a theme, the UI elements are not visible and do not work. Installing "qt-components-blanco-theme" should apparently fix this issue,

Re: QtMobility 1.2 release/reorg in Extras

2011-11-16 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Attila, 2011/11/16 Attila Csipa : > Just to have it here, too: I submitted a brand spanking new version > of libqtm-12 to extras (1.2.0+git2004-0nd~fremantle5, in > practice this is almost 1.2.1). Now, this is a completely differently > packaged > libqtm-12 as the previous one, so I fully e

Re: gpg-agent in scratchbox?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/10/2 Rainer Dorsch : > when building my packages (navit), dpkg-buildpackage asks for my gpg > passphrase. Outstide of scratchbox this is handled through gpg-agent, but > inside scratchbox that does not seem to work. > > Do all package builders enter manually their passphrases, or does som

Re: False missing dependencies in package view

2011-08-25 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/8/25 Oliver : > I'm trying to promote one of my recently built packages: > http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_armel/libhighgui-dev/2.0.0-5/ > [...] > Unfortunately this page lists missing dependencies. From what I can > tell though, the dependencie

gPodder 2.18 in Extras-Testing needs your votes + dependency problems

2011-08-20 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, gPodder 2.18 has been in Extras-Testing for some days now[1]. It would be good to get some votes for it to get it into Extras, because it includes a bugfix that fixes YouTube downloads (users can't download videos from YouTube with the current version in Extras - this has been fixed in the ver

Re: QtComponents and qmlviewer on N900

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/8/18 mece : > I'm trying to get a QtQuick app I made for Harmattan to work on N900 with > qmlviewer, and ran into some trouble. > [...] > Here's the error message: > file:///home/user/tmp/qml/main.qml:1:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module > "QtQuick": Cannot load library > /usr/lib/qt4/

[Harmattan] Exclude directories from tracker / media player

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, For gPodder on Harmattan, I'd like to tell Tracker and/or the built-in Media Player to not index files below ~/MyDocs/gPodder/Downloads. Is there an easy way to achieve this (ideally by just installing some file somewhere)? In fear of Aegis bricking the device and forcing a reflash, I'd rather

Re: Harmattan Python is available

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/6/29 Sanjeev (EIPI) : > 1. Is a Python SOAP client coming to Harmattan, like there was with > Fremantle (e.g. python-suds) Looking at the python-suds source code, it seems like it's a pure Python module. You could just drop it into your project and bundle it with it (if you want to publi

Re: Stopping QML update when not visible

2011-05-30 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Andrew, 2011/5/30 Andrew Flegg : > Qt Quick 1.1 apparently features a "Qt.application.active" read-only > property[1] which can be connected (somehow) to stopping animations, > reading sensors and so on. > [...] > Thoughts welcome. To be honest, it's amazing (and disappointing) that > there isn

Re: Canonical list of fremantle sections

2011-05-15 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/5/16 David Talmage : > Is this still the canonical list of sections for debian/control in fremantle: > http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#Sections > > There used to be a section named user/communication.  Is that now obsolete? The list where I always look is on this Wiki page (that's the sa

Re: Qt application crashes after 2 minutes if started from app grid

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/5/10 Cornelius Hald : > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:24 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: >> On 05/09/2011 08:44 PM, ext Timur Kristóf wrote: >> > On 05/09/2011 04:43 PM, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: >> >> If you don't use D-Bus at all, you need to implement this >> >> single-instance and window raising

Re: QtMobility app shows, hides, shows again at startup

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi David, 2011/4/8 David Talmage : > My newly released PanicButton application [1] behaves strangely at startup. > When I start the application, it displays its window, then immediately hides > the window.  In a few but significant number of seconds, it displays its > window > again.  It should d

Re: Maemo packages

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/4/6 Hector Oron : > 2011/4/6 Andre Klapper : >> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 13:52 +0400, Constantine Tolstov wrote: >>> where can I download all maemo deb packages? >> >> http://repository.maemo.org/ > > It looks to me there are some packages out of the pool: > http://repository.maemo.org/extra

Re: Kill connection dialog

2011-03-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2011/3/6 Dominik Bartenstein : > The strategy I have implemented is as follows: > When QNetworkSession's open()-method is called a QTimer with 2 minutes is > started. When QNetworkSessions's opened-SIGNAL is emitted (i.e. connection > was successfully established) the timer is stopped.

Re: Kill connection dialog

2011-03-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2011/3/6 Dominik Bartenstein : > I finally found a solution I wanted to share with you: > > killall -9 osso-connectivity-ui-conndlgs > > All modal dialogs associated with connectivity (i.e. connection could not be > established etc.) disappear. The watchdog automatically recreates the

Re: hildon.StackableWindow and blocking windows

2011-02-16 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Max, 2011/2/16 Max Usachev : > 2011/2/16 Alberto Garcia >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Max Usachev wrote: >> > I want to use StackableWindow in my program like dialogs >> >> That's not the way to do it in GTK: you have to show the new window >> and connect to its 'destroyed' sign

Re: some more dev questions related to my libicd_policy_home_network.so project

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Jonathan, 2011/2/9 Jonathan Wilson : > 1.What is the best place to store configuration information on the N900? And > where can I find documentation and examples of storing such configuration > information for my plugin? (in this case I will have a control panel plugin > which sets a value and

Re: libdeclarative-multimedia on Maemo 5: Video component not working?

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Ville, 2011/2/6 Ville M. Vainio : > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Perl wrote: > >> ~ $ dpkg -l | grep -i mobility >> ii  libdeclarative-multimedia >> 1.0.2-maemo1+0m5                  Qt Mobility Multimedia QML plugin > > Hmm, I wonder whether pyside bu

Re: Allowing rotation of closed-source apps

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Alberto, 2011/2/6 Alberto Mardegan : > What do you think about all this? I didn't check hildon-desktop and mb2 > source code yet, so if you also happen to have some hints on the > implementation, they are very welcome. :-) Sounds good. Hildon-Desktop already sets the auto-rotation flag on a wi

Re: libdeclarative-multimedia on Maemo 5: Video component not working?

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Ville, 2011/2/6 Ville M. Vainio : > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Perl wrote: > >> I plan to use the QML "Video" element from libdeclarative-multimedia >> (Qt Mobility QML Multimedia Components), and it already works great on >> Linux on my laptop,

libdeclarative-multimedia on Maemo 5: Video component not working?

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, (CC'ing Xizhi as the maintainer of libdeclarative-multimedia) I plan to use the QML "Video" element from libdeclarative-multimedia (Qt Mobility QML Multimedia Components), and it already works great on Linux on my laptop, but it does not work right now on Maemo 5. The element exists, and I ca

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Attila and all, 2011/1/27 Attila Csipa : > On Thursday 27 January 2011 18:07:32 Andrew Flegg wrote: >> Unless we take extraordinary (and almost certainly self-defeating) >> actions like requiring KISStester to be installed to use any software >> from Extras-(devel|testing). > > In fact, I would

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2011/1/27 Riku Voipio : > On 01/25/2011 05:24 PM, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik wrote: >>> A new version of an existing application should have a lower barrier to >>> promotion than a new application. > >> It's obvious; but even a minor change can ha

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
a problem, as one can just pull back the scale value until the picture comes back. > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:36:54AM +0100, Thomas Perl wrote: >> Would you care >> about packaging it up and uploading it to Extras? If you need help, >> just tell me, and I can assist wit

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi again, 2011/1/13 Thomas Perl : > PS: Is the TV-out control panel applet that's included in Maemo open > source? If so, we should probably add the scale and aspect ratio > options there as well (now that there's some working and tested code > that does just that) and dis

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2011/1/13 Ville Syrjälä : > I was bored one Saturday night last year, and wrote this little HD home > plugin to control the TV out on the N900. > > Finally got around to putting it online: > http://gitorious.org/maemo-tvout-control Nice utility! The scale and aspect ratio options are especial

Re: connecting to network in background

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2010/12/6 Dominik Bartenstein : > I try to open a QNetworkSession via session.open(). That works like a charm > but if the connection cannot be established a connection pop up appears by > default. > [...] > Is the "ConnectInBackground" sessionProperty implemented/available for > Maemo

Re: Starting a 3G traffic monitoring application for N900: some questions

2010-11-29 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Andrea, 2010/11/29 a.gra...@gmail.com : > It's not easy to keep track of transfered data, so I'd like to write a > desktop applet that monitor traffic and keep the amount updated. > I'm going to write this in Qt/C++. > > I've some question before starting: > > 1) How can I detect, from a Qt/C++

Re: Discontinue distributing Maemo Bug Jars via email?

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/11/22 Stephen Gadsby : > During the MeeGo conference, I had one person request I stop sending > out Bug Jars via email. Does anyone find receiving them via email > useful? Shall I continue to send them via email or not? I don't like the fact that bug jars are sent "several at once", but

Re: Documentation of Maemo extensions for .desktop files?

2010-10-15 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/15 Dave Neary : > Does anyone know of any document which contains a complete list of > custom fields & an explanation of their purpose, please? Or, if not, a > pointer to the source code of whatever app/library parses these files on > Maemo? I think it's in Hildon-Desktop, although yo

Re: Multiple packages for Git in Maemo Extras (git and git-core)

2010-10-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hey ho! (CC'ing Jeremiah: Can you provide your insight on how to do this transition right?) 2010/10/11 Wes Hardaker : >>>>>> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:13:24 +0200, Thomas Perl said: > TP> I've just noticed that there are different packages of Git in the > TP&g

Multiple packages for Git in Maemo Extras (git and git-core)

2010-10-11 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! I've just noticed that there are different packages of Git in the Extras repository: One is called "git"[1] and the other "git-core"[2] - with different maintainers and different versions. It would be nice if we could find a way to resolve this issue and get one of the packages removed (or at

Re: Handling files in root privileged directory from an application

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/3 Chris Saturn : > I would like to ask your insight a way to handle securely files that need to > arrive in root privileged directory from a user application written in > python. > > In my specific case, the user application will create a file and copy it to > /etc/events.d which will

Re: problem with python, gtk and utf8

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/3 : > and the dict(?!?) is like this: > letters = {} >            letters['1'] = ['', '.', ',', '?', '!', '1', '@', '-', '_', '(', > ')', ':', ';', '&', '%', '*', '#', '+', '<', '=', '>', '$', '£', '§', '¥'] >            letters['2'] = ['', 'a', 'b', 'c', '2', 'å', u'ä'] > [...] > an

Re: MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/26 Ville M. Vainio : > Being able to set a breakpoint and actually hitting that breakpoint on > device without batting an eyelid is what IMO rocks most about the > whole Nokia Qt SDK scheme. Oh yeah - I forgot about that. The whole debugging integration is pretty helpful, that's true. In th

Re: MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Ville M. Vainio : > Considering all of this, I'm inclined to wish we had a  "I know what > I'm using, please run this app as 'user'|" checkbox in Nokia Qt SDK. The current version of Qt SDK automatically creates and deploys a .deb on the device, so once the package has been deployed, if

Re: MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Christian Kandeler : > From Qt Creator's side, nothing prevents you from just giving the user name > "user" instead of "developer" in the Maemo device configuration. The only > problem is then accessing that account; if I'm not much mistaken, login is > disabled for it. I always SSH into

Re: Package promoting

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Andrew Flegg : > No matter the QA process, some developers will always feel that their > code is perfect and doesn't need to be tested - but developers make > rubbish testers of their own code. The challenge is to get the balance > right, and I'm fairly convinced that we're very close to

Re: suspendprocess - poor man's power save

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/20 Ville M. Vainio : > I don't think real applications out there have a habit of > unsubscribing from dbus signals when they don't need them either. Yes, that's what listening for D-Bus signals is all about most of the time (getting notified when something of interest happens, which can hap

Re: Qt with OpenGL ES 1.1 on Maemo / N900

2010-09-03 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/9/3 : > By default in device there is only OpenGL2 libraries, there are extra > packages libgles1-sgx-img and libgles-sgx-dev containing OpenGL-ES1 . > The implementation is based emulating OpenGL-ES1 fixed function pipeline > by special shader code loaded. That may cause problems, becau

Qt with OpenGL ES 1.1 on Maemo / N900

2010-09-02 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! According to the OpenGL ES Wiki page[1], Qt on Maemo only supports OpenGL ES 2.x. Is this really true? I've added the following two lines to my .pro file, and my application compiles, links and runs happily. However, the window (a QGLWidget) will stay black - nothing is drawn on the screen.

Re: Extras QA checklist

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/7/22 Eero Tamminen : > [1] For example popular gPodder application is buggy because it > apparently listens to orientation changes when it's not visible and > does e.g. lots of operations when user tries to answer a call. If you reported a bug against said app, the developer would know about

Re: Maemo QA process

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/7/22 Ville M. Vainio : > How about a system where developers could convince other developers to > test drive their application by voting on theirs? I.e. being able to > give a conditional vote that is "realized" only after the receiver > votes up/down on your application? Wouldn't this slow d

Re: Maemo QA process

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Perl
Servus! 2010/7/21 Roman Morawek : > [...] Actually, I think in the early lifetime of a SW project there > will probably be a release every few months, which could permanently > block the tool's promotion to extras. If there are enough users / testers, releasing every month is no problem. I have t

Re: Is anyone updating @maemoextras Twitter account?

2010-07-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/7/19 Tim Samoff : > Andrea Grandi: >> reading here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing >> that Twitter account should be updated with latest entries in >> extras-testing, but it's not updated anymor since April 2010: >> http://twitter.com/maemoextras >> >> Was it manually updated or is there

Re: Methods for developping on the device itself

2010-07-08 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/7/8 Cedric Cellier : > I have more or less implemented the third alternative, up to a point > where I managed to compile the sample widget of the maemo documentation, > but I'm unsatisfied by the result and wondering if something simplier > exist. > > What are you using ? If you don't do

Re: Getting the siz of the Memory Card

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/5/18 sandeep kodimela : > I'm just trying to find out the size of the memory card,and the amount used > and the amount free.Can anyone suggest me with the API for the same. > Thanks in advance Check the output of the "df" command. You can also use GIO: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/uns

Re: N900 Linux console output for debugging

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/5/7 Kaj-Michael Lang : > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:00 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: >> I'm currently playing with booting images on the N900 using a loopback >> device and bootmenu. The problem is that booting sometimes hangs, and >> I want to debug this. I've ena

N900 Linux console output for debugging

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I'm currently playing with booting images on the N900 using a loopback device and bootmenu. The problem is that booting sometimes hangs, and I want to debug this. I've enabled the framebuffer console on the device, so I can see the early boot messages, but the "five dots" keep appearing and

Re: Proposal for new hildon-extras widget

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/16 Cornelius Hald : > If it's up to me, I would say we should include it in hildon-extras. > What are the other contributors saying? Thomas? Faheem? Andrew? Yes, including it in Hildon-Extras is fine with me too. We can obviously note that this should be used in cases where migrating to Hil

Re: "Donate $x" button on Packages and/or Downloads

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/15 Aniello Del Sorbo : > I am now using HeAboutDialog as well... only issue is that it doesn't > properly render in portrait mode :) Patches are welcome :p I've also "ported" the HeAboutDialog to Python for use in Panucci, so if anybody wants to use HeAboutDialog from Panucci without having

Re: PR1.2 SDK for Extras-devel: how to solve?

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/7 Ram Kurvakat : > The idea is to give a choice to the developer to choose which SDK the > autobuilder needs to use and to which repo the app needs to go to. > Providing an option in the debian control file to build against the user > specified SDK since the developer knows what SDK he/she

Re: [Hildon-Extras] Proposing two new helper functions (logical font desc + color)

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/24 Cornelius Hald : > Thomas Perl wrote: >> Is this something that we want to have in Hildon-Extras? If so, I'm >> going to prepare a patch. The best place for this code is in >> he-helper.{c,h}, right? The logical color and font names can be found >> in th

[Hildon-Extras] Proposing two new helper functions (logical font desc + color)

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I've ported my "logical font style retrieval" code from gPodder to C for use in MæPad, as I have not found similar functionality in the Hildon libraries: +gchar * +he_get_logical_font_desc(const gchar *name) +{ +GtkSettings *settings = gtk_settings_get_default(); +GtkStyle *style =

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

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/23 Andrew Flegg : > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 00:20, Attila Csipa wrote: >> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:39:09 Darren Long wrote: >>> However, in the general case where the source and the executable are not >>> the same, I believe that maemo.org would be obliged to continue to make >>> the sou

Re: GSoC project - aGLESory

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! 2010/3/19 Carolina Simões Gomes : > If possible, I'd like to know more about the aGLESory project, in order to > begin forming my ideas about the project proposal. (I'm not the one who proposed the project, so I might be wrong about the motivations and ideas behind "aGLESory".) I *think*

Re: [Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/5 Cornelius Hald : > Before doing the release, maybe we should try to collect a list of > project currently using widgets from hildon-extras. We could then > directly contact the authors to notify them of the change. I've created a Wiki page where developers can add their apps that are usin

Re: External Repository and HAM

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/8 Marius Vollmer : > ext Benoît HERVIER writes: >> The purpose is to migrate my softwares from "extras" to my own >> repository as i ll not push anymore my applications to extras, but >> only on my own repository. > > Ahh, ok.  This is not something that is well supported (as you have > fou

Re: [Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/2/15 Cornelius Hald : > The question is, whether or not we want that. If we release a library, we > will have to deal with API compatibility in successive versions, etc. I think it would be helpful to create/ship a library. If we don't want to create a shared library just yet, we can always c

Re: Why touch event go through my window

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/2/6 Evan JIANG : > I may not explained it clearly. Let me give an easier understanding > example. If the window is in the top of screen, covered the title bar, > then when I press the button on the left-top > corner, it will show the application switch window. That means, the > press event go

[Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I'm happy to announce that two new widgets are now available in the Hildon-Extras SVN repository. Hildon-Extras is a collection of additional widgets and dialogs that are designed to work on Maemo devices and make development of commonly-used UI elements easier by providing a set of ready-m

Re: Proposal: Sharing plugin to call command-line apps (e.g. photo sharing via SCP)

2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello Alan, b0nc3 and Tuomas! 2010/1/5 Qole : > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Perl wrote: >> I've been thinking of creating a "SCP" sharing plugin for uploading >> photos to a web server, but then thought that a "generic" command-line >> s

Proposal: Sharing plugin to call command-line apps (e.g. photo sharing via SCP)

2010-01-02 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I've been thinking of creating a "SCP" sharing plugin for uploading photos to a web server, but then thought that a "generic" command-line sharing plugin would be even more universal and useful. I'm thinking of a plugin that has a single-line configuration entry that contains the command li

Re: How to play music in silent mode?

2009-12-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/20 Alberto Garcia : > I want to make Vagalume play music even if the N900 is in silent mode. > I also don't want it to be interrupted when I receive a new IM. > > Summarizing: I want the same behavior as the N900 media player. > > How do I do that? I'm using GStreamer's pulsesink. Welcome

Re: docs and optification

2009-12-18 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/13 Attila Csipa : > On Sunday 13 December 2009 15:13:54 Mustali Dalal wrote: >> Purging copyright files does not seem right; they are tiny and have legal >> bearing. >> >> Since a lot, if not all, apps currently in testing use GPL or other FOSS >> license, I would guess there be good reason

Re: QA Process for non user/* packages and how Application Manager handles upgrades (was: Re: extras-devel -> extras-testing auto-promotion not working?)

2009-12-03 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/2 Anderson Lizardo : > 2009/12/2 Benoît HERVIER : >> What happen if i push something for testing like PyGTKEditor for example ... >> but once this one has been push, a new version of a python binding used by >> PyGTKEditor exist in the extras-devel, we cannot push it to extras-testing >> ma

Re: coding in python using os.system , (works on scratchbox but not on N900), Urgent pls help

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/29 Anderson Lizardo : > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, shampavman wrote: >> if anyone can confirm that something like this.. >> os.system("ls > process_output.log") >> would work , it would be of really great help.. >> >> Also if there are any alternatives to using os.system. I would li

GStreamer playbin2 and "Silent" mode on the N900

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! When the N900 is in "silent" mode, music played through playbin2 using GStreamer is also muted, so one has to switch to the "General" profile in order to listen to music. The built-in media player is not affected by this, so is there a way to set my playbin2 to not be muted when the phone h

Marking audio files as "don't play in shuffle mode" (Fremantle)

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! For gPodder it would be nice if it could "mark" all files that it downloads so that MP3 files downloaded with it are not taken into account when the user chooses the "shuffle all songs" feature in the Media Player (because one wants to listen to short music clips in shuffle mode, shuffling

Re: [Fwd: Re: Maemo Barcelona Weekend: best way to ask for help for a UI?]

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/22 Andrea Grandi : > 2009/11/22 Thomas Perl : >> Maybe we should have a "map" of people and technologies on the Wiki >> so that when one needs (technical) help with a specific technology, he/she >> can look up the name of persons that have worked with tha

Re: [Fwd: Re: Maemo Barcelona Weekend: best way to ask for help for a UI?]

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/19 Andrea Grandi : > 2009/11/17 Quim Gil : >> Don't expect them to know the insights of Python/Hildon, though. They >> obviously know the Maemo 5 UI but how you get things done with code is a >> different matter. Anyway, there will be other colleagues attending and >> some GTK+/Hildon & Qt

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/4 Graham Cobb : > Attila said... >> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:28:58 Andrew Flegg wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 09:03,  wrote: >> > > Two days later I notice a blinking orange light in my status bar. I see >> > > a new version of the application. I install, I check what has chan

Re: debhelper-maemo-package-icons

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/10 Andrew Flegg : > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:50, Gabriel Schulhof wrote: >> I, for one, will stick to 26x26, because older version of Hildon >> Application Manager do not work with higher rez icons, and I don't want >> yet another reason to split my source package along distro lines. > >

Re: Geocoding library for Fremantle?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello, Simon! 2009/11/10 Simon Pickering : > I'm looking for a geocoding library to run on the N900. I want to take > the location string attached to those N900 using online contacts who > provide it, and plot that on a map (Emerillon). > > Of course having to parse the message string and then do

Looking for a tag cloud widget (like the one in "Edit tags")

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I need a widget that can display a "tag cloud" out of a list of items that I provide (with different font sizes depending on a weight associated with each item). In Fremantle, the Images and Camera apps have such a tag cloud (the dialog is called "Edit tags"), but I don't think that the wid

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/23 Luca Donaggio : > I was thinking that there should be a way to remove the existing screenshot > from a postinst script when upgrading to a new version of the app. > I mean, some way more reliable than `rm /home/user/.cache/launch/ name>.pvr`. > This could be useful if the new version has

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/21 Martin Grimme : > Please don't get me wrong. optify is still useful and good to have, > but everybody should bear in mind that it's only a workaround, and > that relocating the software to /opt would be a much safer and more > elegant solution. It would be helpful if you could provide i

Re: GStreamer playbin + MP3 playback on the N900

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/21 Claudio Saavedra : > El mié, 21-10-2009 a las 16:17 +0200, Thomas Perl escribió: >> As mentioned in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5629, I cannot >> get MP3 files to play with GStreamer on the N900 using the "playbin" >> element. I have tested i

GStreamer playbin + MP3 playback on the N900

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! As mentioned in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5629, I cannot get MP3 files to play with GStreamer on the N900 using the "playbin" element. I have tested it with both Python code and the gst-launch utility. $ gst-launch playbin uri=file:///path/to/a/mp3file.mp3 The error I am gett

Re: Optification of dev libraries

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/20 Marius Vollmer : > ext Nathan Anderson writes: >>       I noticed when I ran optification of a dev library is optified about >> 75% of the c/c++ .h files.  I would think for consistancy sake maybe we >> should either optify all of them or none of them. > > Hmm, I think -dev libraries ar

Re: Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/16 Mikko Vartiainen : > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:49, Mikko Vartiainen >> wrote: >>> This would certainly work. maemo-optify should have option which prevents >>> it from creating directory links. >> >> Why would/should it be an op

Re: Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/15 Quim Gil : > ext Thomas Perl wrote: >> In the latest version of gPodder (written in Python), I have started >> using maemo-optify. It saves around 1 MB according to maemo-optify's >> output. The problem is that now when a user upgrades from an older >> ve

Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! In the latest version of gPodder (written in Python), I have started using maemo-optify. It saves around 1 MB according to maemo-optify's output. The problem is that now when a user upgrades from an older version to this version, it breaks (the user cannot start the application from the ico

Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! With the latest firmware, the "Settings" window and the Application Manager both show a fake screenshot when clicking the icon in the menu and then fade to the "real" window contents after the application has really started up (look closely at the "Language & region" icon in the settings di

Re: Color wheel mockup

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/5 Cornelius Hald : > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:38 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: >> That doesn't seem like a real problem, as long as we make sure that we >> get the "dialog button style" (the one with the blue outline) for our >> buttons on the right. >

Re: Color wheel mockup

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/5 Cornelius Hald : > How about this: > We put the labels for R,G,B and hex color directly into the color > preview. This saves some space and I think white text with black outline > should be readable on every color background. Then we join the palette > selection from Thomas with the selec

Re: Color wheel mockup (was: Community widgets for Fremantle)

2009-10-01 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/1 Cornelius Hald : >> I have created a small mockup of a possible >> HildonExtrasColorChooserDialog. It uses a view in Edit mode (is that the >> correct term?) to be able to fit the colorwheel in the screen without >> making it too small. On the left, there is space for the six last used >>

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/30 Marius Vollmer : > "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" > writes: > >> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:44 +0200, Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki) >> wrote: >>> "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" >>> writes: >>> >>> > What prevents the community from releasing this "unstable" libhildon >>>

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Cornelius Hald : > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:00 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: >>  * Added pure black and white as suggested by Graham >>  * One slot is free (when the current setting is a custom color that is >>    not in the palette, the slot will be taken by that c

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Joaquim Rocha : > Andrea Grandi wrote: >> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser <--- package name in upper case... >> urllib2.Request(url, data) < method name in upper case... >> >> first they suggest name convention and then they're the first one not >> following them? This really sucks

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Cornelius Hald : > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:18 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: >> Yes, we can probably add whatever we want in the "Advanced" color >> dialog. One thing that I would find nice (and that I have not found on >> any platform yet) is that customize

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Piñeiro : > From: Thomas Perl >> I'd rather do without the scrolling if possible. Here's my mock-up and the >> accompanying Python script that you can use to try it out: >> >> http://thpinfo.com/2009/maemo/colorchooser.png >> >> http://th

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Andrea Grandi : > A question: is "CreditChecker" or "libcreditchecker" a good name? Any > other name to suggest to this library? I'd like to register this > project somewhere but first I'd like to be sure about the name :) I don't have a better suggestion for the name (don't put "lib" in

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/26 Graham Cobb : > On Saturday 26 September 2009 15:00:33 Thomas Perl wrote: >> I'd rather do without the scrolling if possible. Here's my mock-up and the >> accompanying Python script that you can use to try it out: > > I like the approach.  Good de

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/26 Cornelius Hald : > So how about a dialog that just shows n rows with 3 to 4 colors in each > row. Those rows are in a panable area so it's easy to scroll them. Those > colors are taken from a palette and (maybe) colors that have been > selected in the advanced dialog are appended at the t

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/25 gary liquid : > incidentally, there is a colorwheel in standard GTK > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GTK_color_chooser.png > > whilst the number boxes themselves are not finger friendly (they could be > replaced with popouts of some kind) > the dialog itself certainly fits withi

Fremantle: Opening URLs and local files

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! What is the canonical way of opening a browser and the media player (or more general: opening a URL and opening a local file) from code on Fremantle? Is there a command-line utility that can be used or a D-Bus call? If so, where is the D-Bus call documented (sample code would be enough ;).

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Perl
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 the 'standard' stuff into /root_usr/ and preinstall >> symlinks into /usr -> /root_usr > > Yeah, that would work but we unfortunatel

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/7 Brent Chiodo : > I look forward to the one in Python (I program in Python, don't know much C)! It's not the "perfect" solution, but it works both on Maemo and on the Desktop: import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new('http://www.maemo.org/') See http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.htm

Re: App menu not popping up any more after upgrading to Fremantle Beta2

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/7/27 Alberto Garcia : > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:27:31PM +0200, Luca Donaggio wrote: > >> Thanks Alberto, now it works! >> I'm wondering why was it working before (Beta1) when I was doing >> a gtk_widget_show_all() on the main window only? > > It was a bug in the menu; it was showing the

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