Re: Moving services

2017-05-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts via rockbox-dev
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 07:50:55AM +0200, Thomas Martitz via rockbox-dev wrote: > I wholeheartedly recommend Phabricator, as both a user and administrator. > Github is can't compete with most features and is closed source too. I don't > know Gitlab really much, but it always looked like a Github cl

Re: Moving services

2017-04-24 Thread Frank Gevaerts via rockbox-dev
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Björn Stenberg via rockbox-dev wrote: > Hello all patient devs. > > I'm thinking this might be a good time to grab the bull by the horns and do > what has needed doing for quite some time: Move parts of our infrastructure > away from having me as a proje

Re: USB IDs

2015-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts via rockbox-dev
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:06:33AM +, Amaury Pouly via rockbox-dev wrote: > > > > Now that we have the PIDs, it's time to assign them to targets. The > > current plan is to allocate all the stable targets and some of the > > in-development ones (e.g. ipod6g) a unique PID, and all the rest a "ge

Re: USB IDs

2015-12-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts via rockbox-dev
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 05:34:30PM -0600, Paul Louden via rockbox-dev wrote: > Didn't we try this once years ago with IDs allocated from another project, > and run into issues when we contacted for clarification and found that > doing so would still technically be 'against the rules'? I don't reme

Re: "User selectable freq scaling governor"

2015-02-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 02:08:41PM +0300, Eduard Kutuev wrote: > This setting directly affects sound quality. Many iBasso DX90 users noticed > improvement of SQ with governor mode set to Performance instead of Dynamic. > That was one of well-accepted tweaks of official firmware. With newer > iba

"User selectable freq scaling governor"

2015-02-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, A setting for user selectable freq scaling governor (for ibasso players) was added in 040306a. Can anyone explain why this is needed? It's a setting that the vast majority of users will have no clue about, while those who actually know what it means won't know what to set it to. I would expec

recorder build

2015-01-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, The recorder build is still failing due to size limits, and it's unlikely to get better soon. I'm proposing to remove it from the automated build system. It's close enough to the recorderv2 to avoid breakages slipping through, and having that persistent red makes reds elsewhere less noticeabl

Re: Rick Dangerous coming to Rockbox... a new (old) game for the best DAP firmware ever! :)

2014-10-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 09:58:21AM +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote: > This should work. This is the same situation as with emulators which we > allow. The question is where from you get resource files. I'm assuming the files are freely redistributable at least here. There are two options, I think. Eithe

Re: Release

2014-06-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 08:51:53AM +1200, Tom Cole wrote: > There should be a push to complete any unstable ports that are almost > finished, such as the fuse+. You mean there *shouldn't* be a release soon> Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore,

Re: DevCon2014

2014-04-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:43:33PM +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote: > Hi chaps! > > Last year we missed DevCon oportunity, it would be a pitty not to meet You > again this year. I'd like to offer hosting of DevCon in Warsaw Poland. If > You find it interesting we should start thinking about suitable dat

Re: Archos devices: time to let them rest?

2014-02-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:38:39PM +0100, Steph.MMyahoo wrote: > Now to the point : as it's been said these players are stable and > won't be improved so of course push them aside but not out. There > are 2 kind of players on rockbox.org : stable & unstable. I suggest > to create a third one = old

Re: Archos devices: time to let them rest?

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote: > Yeah, I agree. In my opinion this move is long overdue. We should switch > archos port into 'maintenance' mode (such like 2.4 linux kernel is) and > create archos branch before cleanup to not cut off possibility of > backporting fixes

Archos devices: time to let them rest?

2014-02-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi all, When rockbox started about twelve years ago, the Archos Jukebox was still a shiny new device, only slightly outclassed by the Recorder with its wonderful bitmap display. Rockbox pushed these devices far beyond what anyone could have imagined when they were released. Rockbox now runs on m

Re: Volume limiter

2013-11-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:09:49AM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote: > We probably should. The question is who will do the work. We don't have too > many active devs nowadays. I'm volunteering for this one. I just want to get the flames over with before I do the actual work. Frank -- "Debugging is tw

Volume limiter

2013-11-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, We don't currently have a volume limiter option, although people do ask for one every now and then. As far as I understand it, the usual response is that this is easy to achieve by just setting the EQ precut. However, while this works well for people who don't use voice, it doesn't work for p

Re: modifying Rockbox for disabled child

2013-10-21 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:01:13AM -0400, benjamin brown wrote: > Should this be a custom build or should it we make it an option in the > configure script, something like a kids mode or safe mode option. I'm all > for an easy fix to raise the quality of life for someone, but there is more > than

Re: modifying Rockbox for disabled child

2013-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:44:40PM +0100, Alex Parker wrote: > > You probably want that to be > > "bookmarks,files,database,wps,recording,radio,playlists,plugins,system_menu,shortcuts", > > although I imagine you might want to disable a few more while you're at > > it (maybe the System menu?). > >

Re: modifying Rockbox for disabled child

2013-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I there are some things you can do that should fix or work around some of the issues you're having. I'll detail On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:10:16PM +, Gay S wrote: > It has been suggested when I've posted in the forum that there might be a way > to remove "delete" as an option on the pla

Re: Rockbox and the Cowon D20

2013-09-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 04:49:07PM +0200, Steph.MMyahoo wrote: > D20 looks very similar to the D2 which works flawlessly with > rockbox. Although D2 status is unstable due to potential issues with > external SD memory, I never had any problem with it. That's not the reason, actually. The problem i

DevCon2013: your action needed

2013-06-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I'm getting the impression that many people missed last week's email about DevCon(*), so here's a reminder. Please decide you want to come, and mark your availability on http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevCon2013 In case this isn't clear, current thinking is that Peter hosts in Ghent, where we've

HD targets and multivolume

2013-04-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
People seem to be experimenting with 240GB drives in most HD-based targets these days. On some of them, the OF bootloader won't do LBA48, so the first partition needs to be smaller than 128GB, which means you have to have two partitions for it to be fully usable. I think we should enable HAVE_MULT

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-04-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:29:29AM +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 08.04.2013 22:54, schrieb Frank Gevaerts: > >On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:45:30PM -0700, Austin Appel wrote: > >>So, I guess I will make this short: do we want to make the push to > >>do GSoC again thi

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-04-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:45:30PM -0700, Austin Appel wrote: > So, I guess I will make this short: do we want to make the push to > do GSoC again this year or not? So we did apply, but unfortunately we weren't accepted this time. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-03-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 06:59:25PM +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: > >What I've seen so far in this thread is several idea *titles*, but > >nothing with actual detail, and not many candidate mentors. > > Probably nobody has bothered due to the lack of supportive replies > to the proposals. Maybe. My

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-03-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:45:30PM -0700, Austin Appel wrote: > So, I guess I will make this short: do we want to make the push to > do GSoC again this year or not? What I've seen so far in this thread is several idea *titles*, but nothing with actual detail, and not many candidate mentors. With

Re: My Android and simulator builds shutdown

2013-01-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 02:04:19AM +0100, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: > Or alternatively, if maybe the main build system should be used to > provide these downloads? For the windows sims, we could just set that up. All we need is a set of build clients that have the mingw toolchain installed, an update

The new Rockbox Steering Board

2012-10-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi all, Voting for the new Rockbox Steering Board has now finished. 18 committers voted. The five people chosen are: Alex Parker Bertrik Sikken Björn Stenberg Frank Gevaerts Torne Wuff In the sixth place, which is important in case one of the five elected members steps down, we have: Jens

Re: Freeze update/USB issues

2012-09-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:29:48PM +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote: > The big difference here is that USB on AMSv2 was never truly stable > and as such we do not have stable build to offer. So the only option > is to disable USB in release branch IMO. I disagree (I think). If current USB is as good as 3

Re: Freeze update/USB issues

2012-09-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:54:09PM +0200, Marcin Bukat wrote: > I guess no one bothered with n2g to disable usb because there was > stable build to offer and omission of the new release was the easiest > solution. Omission was the *only* solution. Back when we were releasing 3.11, a nano2g build w

Re: New disk logging feature committed

2012-08-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 08:12:07AM -0700, Mike Giacomelli wrote: > I don't know anything about Android, but someone said it had its own logging > mechanism. If you think its useful, feel free to add it. > I'd say on Android these log macros should wrap

Re: Fwd: Reported post: Re: Rockbox as an Application (Android, WebOS etc.) by kugel. (kugel)

2012-07-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:56:28PM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote: > (I think top-posting is appropriate here for forwarding this) - I just > received the below unexpected email. What does "a board I moderate" mean? > Is this sent to 'rockbox developers' or am I for some reason single out? That's the so

Re: New rockbox logging system

2012-07-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:43:24AM +0200, Jonas Wielicki wrote: > Related to your gerrit, can one see the whole diff of all patchsets > together in gerrit somehow? Yes, indirectly. In the list of patch sets, next to each patch set there's a gitweb link. If you click on that, you get to the gitweb

Ladies and gentlemen, we have sound on Android/MIPS!

2012-06-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
I'm pleased to announced that Rockbox on my Ainol Novo 7 Paladin running Android 4.0.3 (ICS), which has an Ingenic JZ4770 MIPS CPU, successfully played its first track: Djungel, by Björn Stenberg I'm now working on cleaning up the (minor) changes needed. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as

DevConEuro2012 meeting minutes

2012-06-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, I've gone through the video recordings of the DevCon2012 meeting and added minutes to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevConEuro2012. Please have a look at them and correct them if I got something wrong. There are specific actions (some of which have already been handled) in there for several peo

USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, Apparently the Openmoko people distribute USB ids to selected projects and communities that ask for them. (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Product_IDs#Conditions and http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2012/05/21/#20120521-open_registry_for_usb_and_mac_addrs) I think we should seriously

Re: Pre-release testing framework

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 08:48:42PM +0200, Lorenzo Miori wrote: > Yes. Atomic tests. Not just saying playback, you're right, it's too wide. Yes, but that wasn't really my point :) What I mean is that we should have a *small* basic test suite (which, yes, consists of clear unambiguous and simple tes

Re: Default compilation with -g?

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 06:20:48PM +0200, Bertrik Sikken wrote: > How about enabling option -g by default? I'm in favour. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enou

Re: Pre-release testing framework

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 06:58:53PM +0200, Bertrik Sikken wrote: > With respect to test strategy: In my opinion, we can start with > a set of rather basic tests to verify high-level behaviour, rather > than to go for test completeness. A test suite taking about (say) > one hour should keep the barri

DevConEuro 2012

2012-04-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello once more, DevConEuro 2012 is only three weeks away now. If you plan to attend, and you haven't done so already, please add your name to the list on http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevConEuro2012. If you're still looking for a place to stay and need some ideas, http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel

Rockbox 3.11.2 released!

2012-04-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello all, On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that Rockbox 3.11.2 has just been released! Rockbox 3.11.2 fixes several important bugs in Rockbox 3.11 affecting Sandisk Sansa and Olympus m:robe 100 devices. Please see the release notes for details: http://www.ro

DevConEuro2012 date decided!

2012-04-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, DevConEuro2012 will take place in Hasselt (Belgium) on 18-20 May 2012. If you're planning to attend, please add your name to the wiki at http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevConEuro2012. While doing that, have a look at the rest of the page, and fill in other bits as applicable. Things that spri

Re: Sansa E200 V1 radio works when reverting to rockbox 3.10 version.

2012-04-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Bertrik Sikken wrote: > > I copied the rockbox version 3.10 version back on to my sansa and it > > worked.  Let me know of anything else you want me to test. > > > > Like if you have a new version of rockbox with radio for 3.11. > > Thanks for reporting. >

3.11 release candidate builds available

2012-03-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, I've uploaded some release candidate builds for the 3.11 release to http://www.hostname.be/3.11RC/ . Please test them and report back, even if just to say there were no problems (we like those reports!), either here or on the forums in the 3.11RC thread. The forum thread about these builds

Re: Changing build/release terminology

2012-03-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:05:57PM -0400, Michael Carr wrote: > What about something like "LTS (long-term-service) build"? Three to four months? Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by def

DevConEuro 2012 dates

2012-03-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello again, We'd like to decide on the DevConEuro2012 dates as fairly soon now, so people can start booking flights, trains, boats, and hotels and still hope to get reasonable rates. If you want to attend and haven't added your name and possible dates to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevCon2012 y

DevConEuro 2012

2012-03-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
OK, I've not seen other proposals, so DevConEuro2012 will take place in Hasselt. I've started the usual wiki pages. If you want to attend, please add your name and suitable dates to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevCon2012. There's general information about the location and how to get there on http

3.11 release status

2012-03-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello everyone The release schedule said we were going to release today, but unfortunately there are some nasty bugs left, mainly with USB on the ipod nano 2G. Until this is fixed releasing is not a very good idea. This means we'll delay the release until at least next week. I hope everything wil

A DevCon proposal

2012-03-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, It appears I can organise DevCon2012 at work, in Hasselt, Belgium. The location has a meeting room that should be able to hold the usual DevCon crowd (i.e. 10 to 15 people), although it's not very big. There's some open space in the building though, so we can manage overflows without too m

Branched for 3.11

2012-03-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello everyone We have branched for 3.11. This means master is open for new features again, but bugfixes of course remain very welcome. If all goes well, we'll release in a week. There are some known bugs that might delay the release a bit though, so don't flame us if we're a bit late. You can

Re: Rockbox and Google summer of code 2012

2012-03-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:26:42AM -0500, Jason Taylor wrote: > But otoh the fact is you guys do not allow just anyone to submit project > ideas, so 99% were not even allowed to contribute ideas. I have no idea how you came to this conclusion. The SummerOfCode2012 wiki page clearly states: "NOTE:

Feature freeze for 3.11

2012-03-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello everyone. We are now in feature freeze for 3.11. The freeze will last for a week. Please concentrate on fixing bugs during this time, exciting new features will be welcome again after we branch for 3.11. Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefo

Re: Non-free fonts

2012-03-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:24:07PM +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello. > > I just want to tell you that Rockbox ships non-free fonts with it > (e.g. Helvetica). > Please remove those. Have you even *considered* checking this claim? It's obviously false. For the record, the fonts in our source are in

Re: AMSv2 USB

2012-02-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:21:07AM +, Alex Parker wrote: > If USB is not to be enabled on 3.11, then we revert the bootloader > change. Rockbox Utility should be installing bootloaders that work > with the current release. If people are using current builds then > they can also install an alter

Re: AMSv2 USB

2012-02-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:30:07PM -0700, Mike Giacomelli wrote: > I guess it'll get fixed when 3.11 comes out. Will it? Is USB stable enough to be enabled in a stable release? I haven't seen any discussion about that yet. I sincerely hope that the answer won't be "It will be enabled because roll

Re: AMSv2 USB

2012-02-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:30:07PM -0700, Mike Giacomelli wrote: > I think the problem is that we did a release of rbutil that finally > started installing the new bootloader but that defaults to installing > the old release. Rockbox Utility installs the *current* release. Frank -- "Debugging i

AMSv2 USB

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, It appears the new rockbox utility installs bootloaders on AMSv2 that boot rockbox by default when USB is detected. This basically means that for people installing 3.10, USB is broken when they plug in the device while it's switched off. This is the way *many* users use USB, which explains wh

Google Summer of Code 2012 mentors ideas needed!

2012-02-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi all, If we want to apply to participate again to the Google Summer of Code 2012, we'll need more project ideas and more mentors. Some of us feel that we didn't really live up to the required standards last year, with too many recycled ideas (some of which turned out to be unwanted or impractic

Re: plugins

2012-02-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Nils Wallménius wrote: > I generally agree about plugins on RAAA. But there are at least two > that are directly related to core functionality, the random folder > advance thing and properties, some music formats are handled by > plugins too, like midi and

Re: usb.c warning

2012-01-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Michael Sevakis wrote: > If that patch goes in to fix FreeBSD (why isn't it commited?), it > won't matter anyway. I still haven't seen a report of it working on a non-USB_DETECT_BY_CORE such as nano2g. Did I miss that? Ideally I'd also like to see if USB_D

Re: usb.c warning

2012-01-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:00:09PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Hi, > > Noticed a warning for this code in firmware/usb.c, line 557 (as of r31578): > > status = (status == USB_INSERTED) ? : USB_EXTRACTED; > > According to the gcc manual (section 5.7), the expression "x ? : y" > (a gcc ext

translation patches

2011-12-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, We do seem to have a bunch of translation patches, some of which are getting a bit old. We should really handle those... http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/index/proj1?string=&project=1&search_name=&type[0]=4&sev[0]=&pri[0]=&due[0]=&reported[0]=&cat[0]=18&status[0]=open&do=index&order=id&sort=des

Re: HWCODEC

2011-12-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Amaury Pouly wrote: > I do not quite agree. Apart from the slow rising bin size here and there, > the big steps were caused by functionality useless on HWCODEC mostly (UI, > corealloc, others ?) and it will continue this way. We don't want to stop > progres

Voice files for 3.10 have been updated

2011-12-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, Due to circumstances beyond my control (i.e. I didn't check things carefully enough last week) the prebuilt 3.10 voice files were built with an Italian TTS voice, which obviously isn't what was intended for English text. This error has now been corrected, and properly built voice files are

Rockbox 3.10 released!

2011-12-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello all, On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that Rockbox 3.10 has just been released! This release marks the tenth anniversary of the Rockbox project. We can trace the origins of the project back to the first mail, posted this very day exactly ten years ago. Go h

Re: recorder 8MB build

2011-12-04 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote: > Hello rockboxers, > The error about recorder 8MB build hangs for quite some time and noone > is willing to fix this situation. Considering the fact that 8MB > version is a hardware mod I would propose to take out this build from > our

Re: 3.10: Shut down menu entry

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:23:18PM +0100, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > Any chance we can squeeze something like this in for 3.10 > or is it already too late in the RC phase? > > Do we want this for all targets or just for RaaA? If this still needs to be discussed, it's *definitely* too late for 3.10.

Re: 3.10 release candidate builds available

2011-11-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:16:12PM -0600, Menachem wrote: > I have an ipod nano 2G. I just updated to the 3.10RC. When I unplugged the > player (after safely unmounting it), it recognized that a new version had > been installed, and asked me if I wanted to run it. I selected yes, and it > took lik

3.10 release candidate builds available

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, I've uploaded some release candidate builds for the 3.10 release to http://rockbox.hostname.be/3.10RC/ . Please test them and report back, even if just to say there were no problems (we like those reports!), either here or on the forums in the 3.10RC thread. The forum thread about these bui

3.10 release work

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello, At this point it seems we fixed all blocker bugs for 3.10 (a new one, FS#12400, appeared last week, but it's gone now), so it's high time to move forward. Right now I'm building a set of RC builds. As soon as those are uploaded somewhere I'll ask for testers here, on the user mailing list,

Re: Updating the theme site

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:52:58PM -0700, Mike Giacomelli wrote: > > Whats the procedure to update the theme site for the Clip Zip and Fuze+? > Does code have to changed or is it just a matter of "someone" adding a few > lines to an SQL database? As far as I know, all that's needed is a theme

Re: Working towards skin engine 2.0 (includes RFC on code!)

2011-11-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 01:13:47AM +1100, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > On 14 November 2011 01:09, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > If someone could come up with a way to make OFFSETTYPE() actually *do* > > something (a clever way to do type checking, maybe), I'd agree. The way > >

Re: Working towards skin engine 2.0 (includes RFC on code!)

2011-11-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:17:02AM +1100, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > I'm not entirely sure what to do about the conversion macros. I am > going to keep the OFFSETTYPE() one (though open to a better name) > because it is helpful). Is it really? I can't say I'm convinced, If someone could come up wit

The new Rockbox Steering Board

2011-10-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi all, Voting for the new Rockbox Steering Board has now finished. 32 committers voted. The five people chosen are: Alex Parker Björn Stenberg Daniel Stenberg Frank Gevaerts Jens Arnold In the sixth place, which is important in case one of the five elected members steps down, we have

Re: FS#12321 - Touchscreen: List line padding, to more easily select lines

2011-10-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 09:47:38PM +1100, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > On 8 October 2011 05:18, Thomas Martitz wrote: > This is the wrong patch for 2 reasons: > 1) this can already be done in the themes I disagree with this reason for two reasons: 1) While it's true that there has been work in that d

Re: Git/gerrit migration status and next steps

2011-09-07 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:59:31PM +1000, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > This isn't about people doing the wrong thing. This is about trying to get > code quality. And yes it will be a minor pain sometimes, but a small fix has > just as much fuck-up-ability as a big one and is *easier* to sanity check >

Rockbox 3.9.1 released!

2011-09-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello all, On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that Rockbox 3.9.1 has just been released! This is a bug fix release for Rockbox 3.9. Go here to download the installer (individual zips are also available): http://www.rockbox.org/download/ Read up on the b

Re: Discussion regarding reordering the main/root menu

2011-08-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:33:31AM +0100, pondlife wrote: > Credits to plugins I don't care too much about the rest of the discussion, but I do think credits do *not* belong in plugins. They may be implemented as a plugin, but they're a rather fundamental part of rockbox. Frank -- "Debugging i

Re: FS#10849 - Sleep timer options: persistent duration and start on boot

2011-08-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 01:05:38AM +0200, sideral wrote: > I'd like to commit FS#10849 I don't use the sleep timer myself (in fact, I think I never even tried it), so I'm not sure how much my opinion is worth here. I think that the patch adds real functionality that's hard to achieve by other (ex

Re: GSoC/Buflib: Weeky report #5

2011-08-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 06:56:21PM +0200, Thomas Martitz wrote: > FS#12159 - GSoC/Buflib: Remove direct audiobuf accesses > FS#12186 - GSoC/Buflib: Put extended buflib into core > > I intend to commit the first one quite soon. So this mail is also a > request for testing this one out. Has there b

Re: GSoC/Buflib: Weeky report #5

2011-08-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:11:43AM +1000, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > On 2 August 2011 02:56, Thomas Martitz wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > as I mentioned, I was very busy with exams for the past weeks. I finished > > them off last week (quite successfully too), so now I can concentrate on the > > GSoC

Re: struct dirent definitions ?

2011-07-31 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:11:17PM -0700, Karl Koehler wrote: > My problem is: these structs are incompatible, and so code reading out > the dirent->d_name does not work. > I assume I have some configuration problem somewhere, but I'm lost... I suspect you're hitting FS#12032 Frank -- "Debuggin

Re: Tags and branches in git migration

2011-07-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 05:02:19PM +0100, Torne Wuff wrote: > SVN branches I intend to keep as-is: bootloader_ams_pp, > bootloader_ipod. Not sure if these are still interesting or not, speak > up if you know :) bootloader_ipod was created because at the time it was based on a slightly older trunk

Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-05-31 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:04:47PM +1000, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > So, please reply with your option: > [_] Yes - switch to git > [_] No - I haven't tried git and don't see the need to change > [_] No - I have tried git and don't like it > [_] Indifferent This selection of questions is actually ve

Re: USB charge buttons

2011-05-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:30:50AM +0100, pondlife wrote: > Gets my vote. I'm in favour of the "any button" approach, although would > prefer the option to charge by default (i.e. button press to connect) as per > FS#10198. I wouldn't mind having a setting for the default mode, but: * I think t

Re: ATA DMA on Sansa Player? Re: 3.8.1

2011-04-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:35:54PM +0200, Arno Wald wrote: > As a Sansa e280 user (sorry, not a developer) I am very interested in > this patch, because my player shows the static noise issue. AFAIK this > player is a PP target, isn't it? If this is the case I wonder why it is > not listed in

Re: plugins on RaaA

2011-03-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:42:02PM +1100, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > They wont compile currently, and yeah, I thought about the gpl issue > but then is it even possible to break our own license? I think it is. We don't have a central copyright holder, so everyone would have to agree on this (for app

Re: plugins on RaaA

2011-03-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:18:15PM +1100, Jonathan Gordon wrote: > Hi, > How much do we really care about the graphical plugins working on > RaaA? Really I'm asking about pictureflow and credits. I would assume that the people who want pictureflow on a DAP will also work on RaaA. I personally don'

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:19:09PM -0400, Sean Bartell wrote: > I'm a student and I'd be interested in improving support for module formats > (MOD, S3M, XM, IT), which are somewhat similar. My concern is that these > projects are only useful for a small portion of Rockbox users, and they > require

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-23 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:08:39PM -0400, Trevor wrote: > Music/Audio Category > > One idea that was supposed to be implemented but I havn't seen it, was video > game music emulation for 80's-90's consoles. > I'm not a coder but it would take a good amount of time to implement some of > the comm

Re: DevCon 2011

2011-03-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:53:57PM +, Bryan Childs wrote: > http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevCon2011 Please also (or mainly) fill in http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevConEuro2011 Frank -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as clev

Re: GSoC 2011 unionfs Project Idea

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
> IT could be anyone really. The way rockbox development works means the > mentor is really only something to keep google happen. I have to disagree with that. While indeed we don't necessarily see the mentor as the primary *technical* contact, the mentor's role is a *lot* more than "keep google h

Google Summer of Code mentors wanted

2011-03-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hello again, On the SummerOfCode2011 page, we currently have three candidate mentors listed. That's not anywhere near enough. If you have some spare time during the summer, and you're very much involved in rockbox, please consider volunteering to be a mentor. While knowledge and skills in the ar

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:00:04PM +0700, Dave Hooper wrote: > Multiple-select in file browser, playlist browser, etc. Enables user to move > a number of files around in one go (particular useful in playlist browser > imho). Could be done alongside Steve's suggestion perhaps. > Along same lines, ab

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:44:58PM +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: > * Redesigning the db to allow more flexible queries and to be more > efficient (and because the current db is practically unmaintained), > possibly starting as a pc app Maybe. We'll need to provide a lot of details before an out

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 09:57:41PM +0100, Marcin Bukat wrote: > Another topic which comes back from time to time is vector graphic > based UI engine. Porting librsvg + libxml + libart should be fairly > easy on RaaA and in sim (where we can use malloc). Than we could judge > if this is really feasi

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:48:38PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Hi all, > > If we want to apply to participate again to the Google Summer of Code > 2011, we'll need more project ideas. Right, there are some new ideas being discussed right now in another subthread, but it

Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-05 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, There are currently some limitations when using the database, mainly involving bookmarks and playlists. There's the idea of possibly having a gsoc project to look into these and fix them. In order to make that possible, we would need to have a fairly complete idea of what's missing, and as a d

Re: Buschel: r29476 - trunk/firmware/export/config

2011-03-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:05:18AM +0100, mai...@svn.rockbox.org wrote: > Switch off ATA DMA for all PP targets. There is sufficient evidence that ATA > DMA causes sporadic lockups and static noise on several PP based players. > This change is expected to fix FS#11746, FS#11764, FS#11775, FS#1184

Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-02-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi all, If we want to apply to participate again to the Google Summer of Code 2011, we'll need more project ideas. If you have an idea that can keep someone busy for a few months, and you know it's something we want, and you're a rockbox committer, please add your idea to it to http://www.rockbox

Re: FS#8961 - Anti-Aliased Fonts

2011-02-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:04:06PM +0100, Thomas Martitz wrote: > I'm using FS#8961 and I really like it. So I would like to commit it. I > reviewed the patch and I think it's good enough. I haven't looked at the actual code, but I've done some measurements. According to test_gfx, lcd_putsxy() i

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