Re: Rockbox joining the Software Freedom Conservancy?

On Sunday 04 October 2020 at 13:40:19, Al Le via rockbox-dev wrote: > Personally, I don't like such kind of organizations. This is a general > attitude of mine. Out of interest, what don't you like about them? Antony. -- "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the se

Re: Wolfenstein 3-D port

On Monday 17 June 2019 at 18:20:44, Benjamin Brown via rockbox-dev wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:19 PM me--- via rockbox-dev < > > rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have decided to finish my port of Wolfenstein 3-D (available at > > http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c

Re: RockBoxAsAnApplication

On Monday 10 September 2018 at 21:45:35, Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: > Hi list ! > > I've been using rockbox in the past and enjoyed it much. > Today I'm fan of an obsolete platform ... BlackBerry 10. At least one of > their phone has great audio quality, the Q5. He has an audio Line Out, as > wel

Re: how to avoid a "make install" on simdisk after each change

On Friday 03 December 2010 at 16:03, Maurus Cuelenaere wrote: > "Michael Stummvoll" wrote: > > > >Is there a better way to avoid typing make install each time I want to > >test a new build? > > When I worked on plugins I usually did make && cp apps/rocks/ > simdisk/.rockbox/rocks/ Can't you just

Re: coding style

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 20:36, Amaury Pouly wrote: > > please express your opinion > > First of all, I'm not familiar with indent so the command line is not very > helpful. Perhaps a well chosen example would be more interesting. > As a matter of fact, I'm not sure it's a good idea to impo

Re: Making absolute point mode default

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 00:45, Paul Louden wrote: > On 10/26/2010 5:40 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > > I find this question hard to manage - isn't resolution a quantity, which > > is measured in units of DPI? > > > > How can screens of different DPI have th

Re: Making absolute point mode default

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 00:20, Paul Louden wrote: > I'd like to repeat my questions regarding DPI, screen size, and stylus > vs finger - do we actually intend to treat different DPI screens with > the same resolution differently? I find this question hard to manage - isn't resolution a qu

Re: Getting agreements

On Saturday 09 October 2010 at 21:38, Paul Louden wrote: > On 10/9/2010 1:22 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > > Then if more people agree with the objection than agree with the > > feature being > > implemented, it gets abandoned. The clearer the argument for rejecting, > >

Re: Getting agreements

On Saturday 09 October 2010 at 17:15, Paul Louden wrote: > In terms of objections, thought, you also need to be careful. With > "reasons specified for the negative vote" then you'll just get into an > argument over whether the reasons specified are valid or not. Is "this > feature could be impleme

Re: RSB vote time

On Friday 03 September 2010 at 22:09, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Each committer has the opportunity to vote for 5 people they want on the > board, each name is one vote. Just out of interest, is 'committer' something which one becomes by committing to the Rockbox code, but one can never cease being

Re: Release 3.7 timeline?

On Monday 16 August 2010 at 20:43, Mike Giacomelli wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:37 PM, David Hall wrote: > > > If not RaaA, what will ever justify a bump to 4.0? > > > > > > And IF this is 4.0 time, I believe a coordinated publicity campaign > > > should be part of the release schedule. >

Re: uchida: r26048 - in trunk: apps apps/metadata tools/database

On Saturday 15 May 2010 at 15:43, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:31:30PM +0200, Alex Parker wrote: > > On 15/05/10 12:20, mai...@svn.rockbox.org wrote: > >> Date: 2010-05-15 12:20:06 +0200 (Sat, 15 May 2010) > >> New Revision: 26048 > >> > >> Log Message: > >> mp3: when ID3 tag

Re: FS#11232: software mixer

On Friday 30 April 2010, Jeff Goode wrote: > I posted a new task at FS#11232 to start the conversation on a new > feature. I plan to supplement the existing pcmbuf code to mix in voice > on the fly rather than in place. This will allow continued voice > playback regardless of pcm playback status

Re: Handling NoDo features

On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Dr. Keith G. Bowden wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone take me off this list please? > > (I don't have access to the Web at the moment.) From the headers of every email on the list: List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: blue_dude: r23605 - in trunk: apps apps/lang manual/configure_rockbox

On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Jeff Goode wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > > But what is an automatic track skip? :) > Anyway, an automatic track skip is the opposite of a manual track skip: > the next track automatically plays at the end of the current track > without user intervention. Wh

Re: Buttons in Hold Mode

On Thursday 22 October 2009 09:24, Rob Purchase wrote: > There has recently been some discussion and patches on Flyspray about > allowing button combinations using the HOLD switch > When this has been brought up in IRC or on the tracker it's usually been > instantly dismissed without any real rea

Re: Supported vs. unsupported builds

On Thursday 03 September 2009 09:03, Rob Purchase wrote: > On 03/09/2009 06:11, Karl Kurbjun wrote: > > I would add the M:Robe 500 in there as well; it is actually quite > > usable, the touchscreen support still needs work, but that applies for > > any touchscreen target. > > Ditto for the D2 - re

Re: Rockbox Presentation for New York Linux Users Group on 19 August2009

On Friday 07 August 2009 17:30, Rocker wrote: > Snipsnip> > Hi. Just a thought, but could you use forgive me I can't remember the > spelling of his name, but could you use Tomers work on hid to control the > presentation? that way you could actually demonstrate a live feature of > rockbox, as I am

Re: Run a build client!

On Monday 27 July 2009 11:31, alex wallis wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, alex wallis wrote: > >> Would a 1.80 ghz laptop with 512 mb of ram be any use to the system? > > > > Yes it would indeed. We have several much slower machines already > > participating and they are doing good! > > OK, well I

Re: Packaging for Debian/Ubuntu

On Friday 10 July 2009 19:00, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Robert Keevil wrote: > > It's not really a suitable package for inclusion into the main Debian > > distribution, since it changes so frequently > > I work in a project with bi-monthly releases (which is far more frequent >

Re: Packaging for Debian/Ubuntu

On Friday 10 July 2009 17:17, Shahar Or wrote: > Dear friends, > > How about having your own package archive which gets updated when you > see fit (e.g. with each release)? > > Examples of projects with their own package archives are: > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > http://www.k

Re: Packaging for Debian/Ubuntu

On Friday 10 July 2009 16:22, Shahar Or wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Robert Keevil wrote: > > Dominik Riebeling wrote: > >  > The reason there is no package is simply that nobody made one. Feel > >  > free to give it a go. > > > > I have a Debian-ised version of rbutil-1.2 here.  But

Re: Apology, and a period of break.

On Saturday 20 June 2009 19:32, Bryan Childs wrote: > 2009/6/20 Tomer Shalev > > > Many times you responded newbie's questions: "Support question belong to > > XXX", "Bug reports belong to XXX" etc, closing the issue. > > I would suggest a more frie'ndly approach: You should provide a short and >

Re: committal of patch

On Sunday 14 June 2009 15:49, Dominik Riebeling wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Antony > > Stone wrote: > > On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:46, Al Le wrote: > > Why not use the same setting as for "speech on/off"? > > Why not use the beep setting we alread

Re: committal of patch

On Sunday 14 June 2009 14:40, Paul Louden wrote: > This setting shouldn't be dependent upon voice. There's no reason to > force it on people using voice who don't want beeps too. On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:46, Al Le wrote: > But with a setting it will be considered settings bloat and will have >

Re: committal of patch

On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:46, Al Le wrote: > On 14.06.2009 14:27, Thomas Martitz wrote: > > alex wallis schrieb: > >> Hi list. > >> I was wondering, is there any chance of getting fs #10311 commited > >> please? > >> [...] > > > > I too think it should be committed, but as of now, it doesn't provi

Re: a dev question about the Sansa Clip

On Sunday 31 May 2009 13:53, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > (I am not a lawyer) Nor am I. > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Antony Stone wrote: > > > Since copyright is automatic upon creation of a piece of work, surely it > > isn't possible for anything to have "no copyrigh

Re: a dev question about the Sansa Clip

On Sunday 31 May 2009 08:44, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Tomer Shalev wrote: > > The *VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE)* is free software > > released under the > > GNU General Public License > >

Re: question about hid in rockbox

On Sunday 17 May 2009 15:49, Tomer Shalev wrote: > In order for Rockbox to access other USB device, it has to act as a USB > host. This can only be done providing the USB controller (and software...) > supports USB On-The-Go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_On-The-Go). I > think this is the case

Re: parent directory when visiting shortcuts

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:00, Al Le wrote: > On 13.04.2009 18:45, Antony Stone wrote: > > In that case would it perhaps be helpful to rename "PREV" (which implies > > the previous location) to "PRNT" (I'm assuming there's a shortage of > > sp

Re: parent directory when visiting shortcuts

On Monday 13 April 2009 16:24, Al Le wrote: > On 13.04.2009 02:27, Dan Davison wrote: > > If you're in /dir1 and select an entry in a .link shortcut file which is > > pointing at /dir2, and then hit , you end up in /. I was wondering > > whether this is the desired behaviour, or whether people wou

Re: need to pay royalties for using USB on a new hardware?

On Friday 10 April 2009 08:48, Jorge Pinto aka Casainho wrote: > Hello :-) > > As I said before, we are working on Lyre project, a Free/Open hardware > audio player (DAP) and recorder, for use with RockBox firmware. > > We will probably use an SD Card for hold the audio files and for easy > the li

Re: question about changes to the content on the rockbox homepage

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 16:34, alex wallis wrote: > > alex wallis wrote: > >> Hi list. > >> I was just keeping my usual eye on the rockbox site today and noticed a > >> few things I am wondering if someone could please explain. > >> > >> > >> Firstly in the news section, what exactly does > >>

Re: FS#9873 - Utilise buttons for playlisting

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:14, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > the h300/e200 ports have had nothing assigned to the rec button for > over 2 years now... I think we can all agree they are spare... I believe the REC button (on the H300 at least) goes into recording mode, as the name suggests... Anto

Re: Title case or sentence case?

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 22:05, Dave Chapman wrote: > I'm not sure what else can be said in this thread, apart from > re-iterating the argument that in general use, title case is little-used > in the UK, and to my eyes (and to the eyes of the majority of the > British contributors to this thread)

Re: Forums and 3.0

On Friday 25 July 2008 14:50, Paul Louden wrote: > Kaspar Rothenfußer wrote: > > Perhaps you should just move those entries to some sot of > > Archived/outdated/old forums subforum. > > --Kaspar > > At which point they'll still show up in search results. These forums > don't have a feature to easi

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 13:53, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Antony Stone wrote: > >> A) pointless request since there's an improvement most of the devs > >> already could think of themselves > > > > I don't understand why, just because

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 13:18, Dominik Riebeling wrote: > There are three options: > 1. from a users point of view. Development is concentrated to make it > the best experience for users. > 2. from a developers point of view. User opinions aren't of interest > but only what devs want. You might thi

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 12:22, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > If you look at the feature requests posted to the tracker the last couple > of eyars, I think you'll notice that most of them are totally pointless. In that case they should be marked as such and not simply remain open? > They often fall in

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 11:54, Dominik Riebeling wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > > > Software developers are very rarely the best judges of what works best > > for non-technical users without any understanding of the internal > > working

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 11:18, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > I want to somehow raise the bar and make it harder to get new > features added to that list. That would make the list a lot more useful to > us all. Is it necessarily true that making it harder to add requests results in only the best reques

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Sunday 22 June 2008 10:53, alex wallis wrote: > I agree that maybe the feature request tracker isn't the best way to handle > feature requests, However I do like it because it is nice just to be able > to go through and read everything that has been requested. If this was > switched to a mailin

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Saturday 21 June 2008 16:31, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Antony Stone wrote: > > I think it would be helpful / polite if the people who make the decisions > > about whether to implement these things would: > > > > a) close down the list if they

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Saturday 21 June 2008 15:57, Paul Louden wrote: > Antony Stone wrote: > > a) close down the list if they don't intend to do anything with the ideas > > expressed there > > The way you've phrased this, it sounds like somehow someone's obligated > to follo

Re: question about tracker e mails to the list

On Saturday 21 June 2008 12:31, Alex Parker wrote: > 2008/6/21 Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Now, we have MANY features already included and yet we have MANY open > > feature requests. I'll be bold and say that most of the feature requests > > in there today are pointless or crappy and