RE: Image Creator platforms

2008-09-17 Thread Spencer, Bob
Menlow-lpia-ume Netbook-lpia-moblin2 Bob Loïc Minier wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008, Spencer, Bob wrote: Image creator that you build from upstream source (git clone http://moblin.org/repos/tools/moblin-image-creator.git) has lots of platforms in the list and I think many of them

Hildon application porting question

2008-06-06 Thread Spencer, Bob
Is there a way to setup configure.ac so that it automatically sets the USE_HILDON flag if building for LCIA? I know how to set up a configure.ac that will check for --enable-hildon flag, but for UME I thought I recall that if LCIA arch then always USE_HILDON. I don't know exactly how to do

RE: Hildon Desktop Icon Visibility Proposal

2008-06-03 Thread Spencer, Bob
Ian Lawrence wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ola, PROPOSAL The ability to switch the visibility of desktop icons without needing to alter the .desktop file MOTIVE Currently on UME the icons are all together in /usr/share/applications. If I alter an icon to

RE: Java development

2008-06-02 Thread Spencer, Bob
I've successfully installed sun-java5-jre on the latest Hardy-PPA image. It seems to work fine with my one test of a game I downloaded. I haven't gotten around to writing an interface to put Java (or QT or Flash) menu items in the drop-down list so that it looks integrated into the system and I

RE: Changed packages in ppa since last snapshot

2008-05-29 Thread Spencer, Bob
I don't fully understand the list. Are we only supposed to describe the differences between the two versions? If so then I have no comment because the versions on the right were all made after my latest checkin. Loïc Minier wrote: As requested by Chris during IRC meeting, here's what I know

RE: Please help to review i18n support in marquee-plugins

2008-05-15 Thread Spencer, Bob
2) Do you expect the application name also to be displayed translated in the Starting appname popup? The app name should be in the .desktop file. For example: Name = App Name Name[fr] = French Name Name[ja] = Japanese Name ... So you should see the banner fully i18n, including the

Boot time +8sec with freedesktop.org changes

2008-04-18 Thread Spencer, Bob
a fuse file system that then transparently updates caches as files are written, but that also has some issues. The basic flaw is that the freedesktop standard doesn't include a program to run to update the cache. -Andi From: Spencer, Bob

RE: Boot time +8sec with freedesktop.org changes

2008-04-18 Thread Spencer, Bob
From: Bastian, Waldo Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:21 PM To: Spencer, Bob Cc: Li, Horace; Kleen, Andi; Banginwar, Rajesh; 'ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com' Subject: RE: Boot time +8sec with freedesktop.org changes Like Andi says, the basic flaw is that the freedesktop standard

RE: How to change desktop look?

2008-04-15 Thread Spencer, Bob
as it was the old mechanism, but I don't know the status of that update. The MP3 problem may be due to a missing gstreamer codec? But I assume that you can play mp3's with mplayer already... Hm. -- not sure. Bob Dustin Spicuzza wrote: Spencer, Bob wrote: Nice screen shot. Thanks, I'm definitely excited

RE: How to change desktop look?

2008-04-14 Thread Spencer, Bob
Nice screen shot. Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications (like your GPS app) should: 1) install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications 2) install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/size/type (e.g.

RE: taking screenshots of UME on a Samsung Q1

2008-03-26 Thread Spencer, Bob
I've use the gnome-screenshot From terminal (connected to network): $ apt-get install gnome-utils $ gnome-screenshot Bob Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008, Rob Lifford wrote: Is there a screen capture utility installed by default with UME (I'm assuming to be run from the terminal)?

RE: Adobe Flash on MID Linux

2008-03-26 Thread Spencer, Bob
Andrew, Thanks for your interest. It is possible to run a flash application on either Red Flag's MIDINUX or Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded distribution, both of which are targeted toward Intel MID hardware. For ongoing help I recommend you join us at one of the following: IRC:

RE: Moblin Supported devices (from RE: [Moblin Dev] RE: Moko finger scroll widget is broken in Hardy PPA)

2008-03-12 Thread Spencer, Bob
The devices supported are Menlow-platform and Mcasslin-platforms. The Samsung Q1 Ultra is a Menlow-platform-based device which we use for development. Mcasslin-platform devices are in prototype phase and due out this summer. Bob jonathan swan wrote: Hey guys sorry for firing off an unrelated

RE: FW: Hildon 2.0 Release

2008-01-17 Thread Spencer, Bob
We are already at a version very close to v2.0 I'm not sure if the magic isn't already there. Or do you know that they added significant features very late? I mean we updated just 6 weeks ago. Bob Adilson Oliveira wrote: Spencer, Bob escreveu: Perhaps we should review the differences

RE: how to run as ume user in Xephyr?

2008-01-17 Thread Spencer, Bob
John, Do you think defaulting to user ume is OK? It has an advantage for me in that I can setup my home environment including adding media content and it will be the same on the Q1. I think we talked about this once and decided against it, but I can't remember why. Bob Kyle Nitzsche wrote:

RE: Apps Criteria -- 3 levels

2007-11-29 Thread Spencer, Bob
A good review, thanks. Loïc Minier wrote: Thanks for your lists! 1 Bronze Level (minimum to be linked from moblin.org) 1.1 Build and Install 1 Compiles cleanly 2 Buildable in target environment with autogen, configure, make 4 Contains installable .deb package(s) =

RE: Handwriting recognition support in Ubuntu Mobile?

2007-11-27 Thread Spencer, Bob
Michael, We have only discussed handwriting but haven't done any real investigation into this area. I like what I see. If we get some time we'll check it out. I wonder how well the keyboard and handwriting apps work inside a matchbox single-app-at-a-time window manager. Bob Michael Levin

RE: Gtk 2.12 and tap n hold

2007-11-26 Thread Spencer, Bob
.html []'s Ian On Nov 22, 2007 8:34 AM, Adilson Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spencer, Bob escreveu: Adilson, Did we bottom-out on Tap and Hold functionality? I forget where we left that. I believe that Gtk 2.12 does not have this functionality without a Nokia patch

Gtk 2.12 and tap n hold

2007-11-21 Thread Spencer, Bob
Adilson, Did we bottom-out on Tap and Hold functionality? I forget where we left that. I believe that Gtk 2.12 does not have this functionality without a Nokia patch. Currently there is no such functionality in our images. I usually discourage its use by applications, but we still need this

RE: hardy images - known issues

2007-11-19 Thread Spencer, Bob
4) The touchscreen is completely uncalibrated. Loic, Did you find calibration values that work? That would help others at least start using this image. It would also help the calibration guys. Bob Loïc Minier wrote: Hi, I updated MIC to pull from hardy + the ubuntu-mobile

RE: Enabling Simplified Chinese Pinyin input method on Ubuntu Mobile withSCIM

2007-11-15 Thread Spencer, Bob
That's great. Good details. Any chance you could put how big these packages are? For example, if I follow your steps, how much larger will myimage be? Just trying to keep a handle on size, esp with the font pkgs which can be large. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Criteria for App Mobilization

2007-11-09 Thread Spencer, Bob
I added them. Bob From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Nitzsche Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:58 PM To: Robison, Clayne B Cc: ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Criteria for App Mobilization That's great. Can you

Xephyr w/GL support

2007-11-08 Thread Spencer, Bob
Bryce, Can you help us get xserver-xephyr with GL support as the default for ubuntu-mobile? We are doing most our debugging on the desktop and moving to OpenGL-enabled applications. What can we do to help? http://dodji.blogspot.com/2007/10/xephyr-xvideo-and-gl-has-landed.html Bob --

FW: hildon-desktop statubar.conf file

2007-11-06 Thread Spencer, Bob
fyi. Lucas Rocha wrote: Hi Bob, Em Seg, 2007-10-15 às 16:27 -0700, ext Spencer, Bob escreveu: When we add new statusbar plugins we're required to append an entry to /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf . We don't want the plugin pkg to edit these files owned by hildon-desktop

RE: Criteria for App Mobilization

2007-10-25 Thread Spencer, Bob
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ubuntu-mobile- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cassezza, Jason Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:45 AM To: Spencer, Bob; Kyle Nitzsche; ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: RE: Criteria for App Mobilization How much detail would we want to include in the list

RE: Image building taking hours. Normal?

2007-10-19 Thread Spencer, Bob
We setup a local system to mirror deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe Now on a fast system you can create an image in about 10mins (some have claimed 4mins, but we haven't had an official olympic race) It stinks to postpone a test or development because

UI and Apps Status

2007-10-18 Thread Spencer, Bob
collection of apps looks quite ad hoc. Overall, a big thanks to Matthew Garrett who patiently helped us get our components into gutsy. We are planning ahead now so we don't require such last-minute help in the next release. Bob From: Spencer, Bob Sent

RE: patch for hildon-desktop

2007-10-12 Thread Spencer, Bob
Bill, upstream for hildon is usually here for hildon-desktop stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fyi) bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loïc Minier Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:56 AM To: Bill Filler Cc: ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com

UI and Apps Status

2007-10-11 Thread Spencer, Bob
Another JIT status report UI Grid-layout / html Home Screen: Working now. Recognizes theme and background change. Requires hildon-theme-mobile-basic for button button background graphics. Still to be done: - Set the default theme as this UI reads the theme from gconf and currently

RE: Mobile-media

2007-10-08 Thread Spencer, Bob
Rusty Lynch wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 07:07 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: I chatted to Bob about this briefly on Friday, but thought I'd mail the list to make sure that I don't end up doing anything unexpected. I've been looking into uploading gstreamer-dbus-media-service and

xserver configuration

2007-10-05 Thread Spencer, Bob
In order to view clutter/OpenGL-based home screen's inside Xephyr, we need Xephyr compiled to support 3D/glx. Has someone on this list done that or have any pointers? I pulled the xorg-server code and will be trying to do this. Any tips would be great. Bob -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list

RE: Moblin and Gnome

2007-10-04 Thread Spencer, Bob
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Spencer, Bob Lastly, perhaps we could agree on some standards for branching existing projects. For example #ifdef tag, for code, Makefile.am, configure.in, etc. Then we could easily go to a project and find where/if someone else had added mobile-device-specific

RE: Moblin and Gnome

2007-10-03 Thread Spencer, Bob
Bill Filler wrote: I believe for Network Admin and Date/Time settings, Todd was planning on providing a patch to gnome-system-tools for the UI changes necessary for running in the hildon environment. But I'm not sure about all of the other control panel applets. Todd, does it make sense to do

C/J/K fonts and UME

2007-10-01 Thread Spencer, Bob
Using the bottom of the http://news.google.com page for reference, I found the following packages are needed for browsing sites containing multibyte languages. (I don't know how to verify if the characters are correct, but at least they are not garbage). Are these packages we want to include in

RE: patch for mobile-basic-flash

2007-09-27 Thread Spencer, Bob
Bill Got it. Will try to get to it very soon. Bob Bill Filler wrote: Bob, Attached is a patch file for mobile-basic-flash that adds the following functionality. Please let me know if you have any questions. Bill * added support for hide/show marquee based on gconf settings: When

FW: Hildon Input Method is released (fwd)

2007-09-07 Thread Spencer, Bob
FYI Levinson, Aaron N wrote: Hi Bob, Looks like some of the Hildon Input Method stuff has been open-sourced--maybe this includes some useful stuff for Intel MIDs. Aaron -Original Message- From: Aaron Levinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 8:29 AM

RE: Missing .xinitrc: Launching the UI inside of Xephyr in the Target?(Was: Monday Breakage)

2007-08-24 Thread Spencer, Bob
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:49:02PM -0700, Spencer, Bob wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: By the way - never do this on any computer connected to the internet, especially if your X server is configured to listen for TCP connections. Thanks -- can you give me a secure good

RE: Missing .xinitrc: Launching the UI inside of Xephyr in the Target?(Was: Monday Breakage)

2007-08-23 Thread Spencer, Bob
Sean Sosik-Hamor wrote: Greetings, What is the new official way to launch the UI inside of Xephyr in the Target now that .xinitrc no longer exists? I read over the Monday Breakage thread but it doesn't seem like there's a definitive process yet. On the workstation, enable access to

RE: How to call a python plugin in UI

2007-08-15 Thread Spencer, Bob
ping -- were you able to successfully launch your app? I'd love to see a screenshot of your application running. Bob Ian wrote: Ola, Mobile player is also a python application. Maybe it's not the best way to launch python application, but it can be a reference. 1. create an exe file under

RE: mockups

2007-08-15 Thread Spencer, Bob
Hey Ken, Been on vacation for 2wks and just catching up. Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Friday 20 July 2007 16:28:18 Bill Filler wrote: Ken, The screens look good. See my comments below: On Jul 20, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Friday 20 July 2007 08:52:32 you wrote: snip Thanks

RE: How to call a python plugin in UI

2007-07-28 Thread Spencer, Bob
If I understand, you've created a statusbar plugin. The statusbar has a feature that allows it to show a 2nd row of icons if the original area fills up. The conf.xml file shows the icon for the application. This is independent of the statusbar. If you want your statusbar to appear you need to

RE: Home applet development in Xephyr

2007-07-26 Thread Spencer, Bob
Great news. Thanks a lot! We've had this extra download xserver from Bryce step in our how-to-create-an-image documentation for a few weeks now. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:18

RE: Desktop plug-in location in UME

2007-07-24 Thread Spencer, Bob
Lynch, Rusty wrote: You are looking at the plug-ins installed by the marquee-plugins package. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:51 AM To: ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Desktop plug-in