Re: idea: second SIM card support

2007-01-31 Thread Myk Melez
Andreas Kostyrka wrote: Problem solved, as in option 2: http://www.dualsim.de/ That's kind of a solution, except it looks complicated and seems to require me to mod my phone, which is a high enough barrier to entry that I'm not likely to do it. I fear that having two GSM modules does

Re: idea: second SIM card support

2007-01-31 Thread Myk Melez
Robert Michel wrote: As longer we are active on this list as more difficult will it be for new subscriber to do not write an idea that wasn't already written on this list. About second SIM card we have several threads: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000112.html (we

Mass Storage For Phones

2007-01-31 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
From slashdot (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/0124237): Mass Storage For Phones The Demo conference started today, and the first news out of it comes from Seagate, which will be introducing pocket-sized, 20-GB, Bluetooth-equipped drives for cellphones this summer. They call

Re: [moved to openmoko-community]Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Foucault de Bonneval
Hi, I can do it in French ... :) Rgds Foucault On 1/31/07, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And me could help in Spanish translation, but I suppose it's being done by FIC. Best regards, 2007/1/30, Denis Kot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can try to help to translate to

AT commands (Re: But wich GSM chip? Re: AT commands document (Was: Fax modem? Fax software? Neo as T.38 gateway?))

2007-01-31 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:11:53AM -0800, Dimitris Kogias wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 1/31/07 12:32 AM, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So can you say us already a little more about the GSM chip? Sure. We're using a Ti Calypso chipset. Unfortunately this stuff is all

Re: AT commands (Re: But wich GSM chip? Re: AT commands document (Was: Fax modem? Fax software? Neo as T.38 gateway?))

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Harald! Thank you for the list. On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Harald Welte wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:11:53AM -0800, Dimitris Kogias wrote: Isn't the AT-capable port going to be available to userland via a serial abstraction? If so, its AT command profile won't be a secret very long.

RE: Multiple USB Devices

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Fletcher
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:33:01PM -, Michael Fletcher wrote: Hi All I am very excited about this phone! Cannot wait to get my hands on one! I was wondering, I have been searched the mailing list, but can't seem to find an answer. Will it be possible to connect a powered USB

Q: How does USB hubs work? Re: Multiple USB Devices

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michael Fletcher wrote: I was wondering, I have been searched the mailing list, but can't seem to find an answer. Will it be possible to connect a powered USB HUB into the 1973. So that for example the phone can charge, have a USB WiFi dongle attached and

Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Suresh! I'm just a listmember, but maybe my answer will help you. The core developers are very busy at the moment so everybody has to use patience when things will be published. And also the official realease would create more feedback when they are able to publish unpublished fakts ... :)

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Oleg L. Sverdlov
I suppose we 'll get access to localization files when the SDK is published. Hopefully, there will be some sort of source code translation repository, or we'll need to establish it. How will OM/FIC team manage translations? Is it a good idea to have a separate mailing list for translation

Re: Mass Storage For Phones

2007-01-31 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 13:15:28 Robert Michel wrote: But comparing this $85 with the price of every other component in the Neo1973 makes clear, that it is not only the matter of size why it is not so likly to have such a hdd included in a smartphone. Furthermore, 8G flash USB sticks

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Mikko J Rauhala
Incidentally, I've done free software translations into Finnish before, and I live with someone who has also, and happen to know quite a few other people with experience and interest in this area as well. I'm not sure at this point how much I can personally promise to do for Finnish translations,

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Fabian Off
If needed, I'm going to translate the GUI in german. I think a page in the wiki (when avaliable) showing the translation-process would be great, so you can checkout what isn't done by now. A question, related to translations: Will translations handled like they are in Opie? (A package you can

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Van Vlaenderen
I prefer using my phone, pc, pda, ... in english, but I can do translation in dutch ( or at least a part ) I assume that a lot has to be translated. On 1/31/07, Fabian Off [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If needed, I'm going to translate the GUI in german. I think a page in the wiki (when avaliable)

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Engin Erenturk
In my opinion the translations must be done professionally for such a product like this. Instead of volunteers who are not professionals, volunteers who are professionals and volunteer who can provide a professional translation must localize this product. I localized RSSOwl into Turkish, and I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Engin! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Engin Erenturk wrote: In my opinion the translations must be done professionally for such a product like this. Instead of volunteers who are not professionals, volunteers who are professionals and volunteer who can provide a professional translation must

Re:Q: How does USB hubs work? Re: Multiple USB Devices

2007-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Robert Michel writes: Brilliant! Thanks for that :-) So now the question, how does an USB hub work? Can we plug in the host on any port? Short form: USB is strictly a hierarchical, tree-structured network. There is one host, which may connect to the upstream port on a hub; you can then plug

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Engin! I like your motivation and your will to find a some experienced in localisation/translation. You have the experiance with the localization of RSSOwl and that the help of 3 friends seems not to be enought to reach a professional translation. On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Engin Erenturk

Re: [moved to openmoko-community]Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Foucault de Bonneval
Hi community, maybe after publication of the translation, few choice could be left and everyone could vote for the best translation with a little poll. Translation files could be extracted from all the most voted sentences/words. System can be extended to any new application whitch need

We have alread 9 languages! :) Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve José! Your offer started a very fruitfull thread - thank you! On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, José Suárez wrote: Hi to everybody. I've been quite excited about the OpenMoko development and release schedule. I'm pretty sure I would like to buy one Neo1973 when they were available and became

RE: music applications: piano, drum, bell...

2007-01-31 Thread Guido Reimer
Hi, The idea sounds good. For this kind of software a multitouch screen would be nice. The same nice hardware like apple uses for the iPhone. So you can mix more then one sound together depending on how much fingers you have :`) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-31 Thread Ortwin Regel
It's not difficult to understand but I think it's not a very intuitive idea. Ideally future OpenMoko devices would have multitouch which would get us very intuitive zoom and movement along the map. Using an accelerometer to control something is a good idea for the Wii where you have the

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Oleg L. Sverdlov
Good! Please make a page. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can help with the Hebrew also I'll make a page on the wiki for this (if it hasn't been done already). -- Best regards, Oleg. *OLS Software* Websites Building, PHP Development. Tel./Fax 03-613-2865 , mobile: 054-424-0865 URL

Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread michael
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Engin Erenturk wrote: In my opinion the translations must be done professionally for such a product like this. Instead of volunteers who are not professionals, volunteers who are professionals and volunteer who can provide a professional translation must localize this

Re:Q: How does USB hubs work? Re: Multiple USB Devices

2007-01-31 Thread michael
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: ... A compliant hub does not supply any power to the upstream device. If you plug the Neo in to the upstream side of the hub (so it thinks it's a host), it can't be charged by the hub. Of course, there are *lots* of noncompliant devices out there,

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Harald Welte
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:49:36PM +0100, Robert Michel wrote: I'm just a listmember, but maybe my answer will help you. The core developers are very busy at the moment so everybody has to use patience when things will be published. exactly, thanks. AFAIK when the first Neo1973 will be

my 2 cents about Idea: ring tones and other non-software assets can be developed as CC content

2007-01-31 Thread Marc SERT
It's very pleasant to see this fireworks of ideas. can i add my feeling about usability of this device : think about impaired people like blind people: it will be very nice to help them to discover the virtual keyboard by for example a continuous bass sound modulated by proximity of

Re: DBus for Generic Data Access Methods?

2007-01-31 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Richi, You do know that the object path is specific to the daemon that provides it anyway. The access to a method or signal of an interface is done via the unique bus name _and_ the object path. This means that daemon A can register /org/foo and daemon B can register /org/foo and

Re: Email Push Service :) smtp+dnotify+Asterisk+... :)

2007-01-31 Thread Elliot F.
David Ford wrote: It's a great idea, never thought otherwise. My comment should be taken to mean, don't reinvent the wheel, take the existing wheel, sand it down like new, and refinish it so it's all bright and shiny again. What if we want a wheel with rubber, rather than just bare wood?

Re: Is vim included out-of-the-box or shall i port? (was: Re: Development environment

2007-01-31 Thread Cliff Brake
On 1/31/07, Richi Plana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To justify this being on the developer list and not the community list I could pretend that only developers will want vim on their Neo. Why would you want vim (or any source editor) running on your Neo? First of all, the primary interface to

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer writes: Let's distinguish two types of popup-dialogs: a) informative (i.e. battery low, incoming sms, sms sent) b) confirmative (Mickey calling. Answer / Ignore / Reject?, Do you want to remove all contacts?) Right now, we're leaning towards (ab)using the bottom status bar

Re: Is vim included out-of-the-box or shall i port? (was: Re: Development environment

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Richi! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Richi Plana wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of vim, will vim (or another derivitive of vi) be among the included applications, or shall I try cross-compiling it right now? (I can't live w/out vim). To

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:13 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Let's distinguish two types of popup-dialogs: a) informative (i.e. battery low, incoming sms, sms sent) b) confirmative (Mickey calling. Answer / Ignore / Reject?, Do you want to remove all contacts?) Right now, we're

Re: Email Push Service :) smtp+dnotify+Asterisk+... :)

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Elliot Foster wrote: David Ford wrote: It's a great idea, never thought otherwise. My comment should be taken to mean, don't reinvent the wheel, take the existing wheel, sand it down like new, and refinish it so it's all bright and shiny again. What if we want a wheel with rubber, rather

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:05 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:49:36PM +0100, Robert Michel wrote: I'm just a listmember, but maybe my answer will help you. The core developers are very busy at the moment so everybody has to use patience when things will be published.

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Jon Phillips wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:05 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: [...] We don't consider MMS as something that the typical user of the Neo1973 would use anyway. We have SMS, and we have GPRS for services like ICQ, Jabber, e-mail and the like. If somebody in the community

2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Mickey! I think many users could live with popups, but I would like to choose a solution that would not nag me with full or havesize popups I mean on the longterm, but as official design of Openmoko, working with every aplication. On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:

I proposed to move to the community mailinglist Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve David! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, David Ford wrote: p.s. the subject line is no crossposting! which list do people want this to remain on? I think it is clear that it is a general talk about SMS/MMS and not the question how to use the SDK, how to crosscompiling. Without a clear seperation

Re: idea: second SIM card support

2007-01-31 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Myk Melez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070131 09:39]: Andreas Kostyrka wrote: Problem solved, as in option 2: http://www.dualsim.de/ That's kind of a solution, except it looks complicated and seems to require me to mod my phone, which is a high enough barrier to entry that I'm not likely to

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Tomasz Zielinski
2007/1/31, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else (Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject? while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one of the buttons, I'm going to be very annoyed. I'd also be annoyed if I had

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/1/31, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else (Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject? while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one of the buttons, I'm going to be very annoyed.

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Heya, I think many users could live with popups, but I would like to choose a solution that would not nag me with full or havesize popups Do you have a viable alternative (except full undo/redo capabilities, which would be desirable, but takes a whole lot of memory and/or disk)? Let's

Wikipedia update :) Re: We have alread 9 languages! :) Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Krzysztof! Great! Krzysztof Kajkowski schrieb am Mittwoch, den 31. Januar 2007 um 22:03h: 2007/1/31, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please all visit: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Translation and add your name when you like to join. Polnish seems to get a strong

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: [..] D'oh. That surprises me a bit... after all, the Neo is a phone, so I would think incoming phone calls should always popup [in default profile]. What do the others think? It shouldn't :) Do you answer all calls to your phone? My phone is often very busy

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Steven Milburn
I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not others. Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a status bar somewhere flashing for my attention. If the application I'm running is

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Steven Milburn wrote: I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not others.  Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a status bar somewhere flashing for my attention.  If

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any, alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Do you really want e.g. the incoming phone confirmation dialog behave like that? [more notification strategies] ... I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what the majority of smartphone users wants or is it? Guys? I

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Ford writes: Here's a grand example. You're inside your voicemail navigating menus and dealing with temporary information. Your phone rings in with a new call and your fingers are busy hitting voicemail commands. *bam* Your inbound phone call is accidently disconnected or answered not

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any, alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:55 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Do you really want e.g. the incoming phone confirmation dialog behave like that? [more notification strategies] ... I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Bryan Fink
On 1/31/07, Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preference would be some system whereby I could select a list of events that are allowed to interrupt me, and to what level they're allowed to interrupt - visual: fullscreen/halfscreen/footer/none; audio: interrupt/mix over/none. This

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Bryan Fink
On 1/31/07, Tomasz Zielinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/31, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else (Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject? while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one of the buttons, I'm

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Bryan Fink
On 1/31/07, David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/1/31, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else (Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject? while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one

Re: Email Push Service :) smtp+dnotify+Asterisk+... :)

2007-01-31 Thread Elliot F.
Redvers Davies wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:49 -0800, Elliot F. wrote: Google talk has a persistent connection between the client and the server. With a persistent connection, pushing data is pretty easy. We have to use a persistant connection as most GSM networks use private address

Tinymail on it?

2007-01-31 Thread Philip Van Hoof
I already asked it to some internal E-mail address, the reaction back then was positive but no real certainties. Is there interest from the OpenMoko team for bringing tinymail to the device? (http://tinymail.org) I've been reading the discussions about push e-mail, and that idea is all nice and

Re: Tinymail on it?

2007-01-31 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 01:56 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: Nevertheless am I of course interested in whatever the final decision on push E-mail will be. By the way, in case people wonder about this. On both POP3 and IMAP E-mail messages are uniquely identified by a so called uid. The message

RE: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Schlesinger
Well, you're not wrong, certainly: people use MMS even though it _is_ horribly broken (and expensive, etc.) I guess the point I'm attempting to make here is that in addition to the challenges in just getting a working phone out the door, you sign up to take on what seems, to me, anyway, to be a

Re: Wikipedia update :) Re: We have alread 9 languages! :) Re: Translators needed?

2007-01-31 Thread Sergio Bessa
OpenMoko in Portuguese http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMoko Regards, Sergio Robert Michel wrote: Salve Krzysztof! Great! Krzysztof Kajkowski schrieb am Mittwoch, den 31. Januar 2007 um 22:03h: 2007/1/31, Robert Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please all visit:

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread jsuggs
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: You might be right. But I personally feel that MMS is fundamentally flawed. Costs aside, it's just not the way I think media should be transferred. The benefits are just too low for the end user. We're trying to fix this. I agree. I have never used MMS, and very

RE: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Schlesinger
Now, that doesn't mean that I am a representation of the *average* user... I promise you, you're not. A _person_ is intelligent; _people_ are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.--Tommy Lee Jones as K in _Men in Black_ We *must* be able to easily/effectively communicate with

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding theMessaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread Knight Walker
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:48 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: I, personally, do not use MMS. I'm not even sure if that service is available here in Calgary, AB with the carriers here. I've had a dinky, free phone since the start waiting for the right phone (this one) to come along. However, we should