Re: Closing apps

2007-11-22 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:21 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Tilman Baumann wrote: But i find both Buttons on the phone very cumbersome. Because they are so small and embeded in the case. But this is a conpletely different story... *g* Yes, the buttons are a nightmare. Sorry

Ubuntu embedded/mobile

2007-09-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi, Not sure if this has been posted before, but will it be possible in the future to support the Ubuntu embedded stack on the neo? I see on the Ubuntu wiki they support the Intel's MID (Mobile Internet Device) platform - so it will need some porting. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded

Dev environment - one more time

2007-08-06 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Hi all, anyone have the dev environment going in openSUSE 10.2? Im still struggling and the info at OpenEmbedded is too Debian biased. Thanks Hans E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Shipping other than UPS

2007-07-17 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Is it possible to get the phones shipped with anyone other than UPS? The fact that the shipping to South Africa is $148.97 and the phone is $300 just makes it impossible to order (this excl taxes etc). And with the Oct Phase 2 phone going for $450 + whatever taxes, shipping etc on-top to get it

Re: Binary tarball of toolchain/build environment

2007-07-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:34 +0200, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, Can someone provide a link to a binary tarball for the openmoko toolchain/build environment? (similar to CodeSourcery's GNU toolchains): http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/download.html Something that I can simply

Re: Binary tarball of toolchain/build environment

2007-07-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:00 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/13/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try mokomake file. It has target for compiling qemu and running qemu. As for direct connection, try setting proxy variable in shell to connect a machine behind firewalled

Group orders for South Africa (again)

2007-07-12 Thread Hans van der Merwe
All SA OpenMoko fans, Please check out: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Group_Order#South_Africa E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Shipping costs

2007-07-10 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:51 +0300, Gena Batsyan wrote: I'm shocked! I wanted to purchase neo to Belarus - 140 bucks for shipping, that's a half of the device price!!! Western Europe is about 90. Same here in South Africa - I cant justify the phone if the shipping is going to be half

Touchscreen enable/disable

2007-07-04 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Im not sure if this has been discussed before but here goes. Apparently some iMate phones have the tendency to make fake touchscreen entries while talking on the phone because of the screen touching your face/ear/cheek. The new ones detect (somehow) if the phone is to your ear and disables the

Phase 1 for normal users

2007-07-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Will phase 1 be useful to normal users - like my wife? Is there a reason for her to fork out $300 to get a phone that functions just as good as her current SonyEricsson T360? (obviously excluding all the fancy stuff that is possible, but not yet implemented) The basic apps on the wiki is very

Package manager

2007-07-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Is there a project (or plans for one) to simplify adding and removing apps to the Moko? Users will want to download and install apps - from official repos (and obviously 3rd party) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm

Re: Package manager

2007-07-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
=== On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:37:14 +0100 Hans van der Merwe wrote: Is there a project (or plans for one) to simplify adding and removing apps to the Moko? Users will want to download and install apps - from official repos (and obviously 3rd party) Well, apt-get, smart or any other backend

Re: Package manager

2007-07-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:53 +, Lalo Martins wrote: Also spracht Al Johnson (Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:23:56 +0100): I would have thought ipkg would make more sense as it's already used by most distros for handhelds, mainly because it has a smaller footprint than dpkg/apt or rpm/yum. I was

Re: Custom case designs...

2007-07-03 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 16:52 +0200, ramsesoriginal wrote: First they wil lthink that it's a rip-off of the iPod customisation. Then they will think that it's not useful, not functional, only thrown-away money. Then they will see how cool it looks at their buddy's neo, and will buy one for

Group purchase in South Africa

2007-07-02 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Anyone in Cape Town, South Africa willing to put together a group purchase of Moko phones to minimise the shipping cost? (for the GTA1 release)? Is this allowed? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko

Openembedded with openSUSE 10.2

2007-07-02 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Anyone had luck getting the dev platform working in openSUSE 10.2? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [openmoko-announce] Some light ahead...

2007-06-14 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Tried that on openSUSE 10.2 Instructions do not work - after installing apt4rpm apt-get is not available?? On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:23 -0500, Steven ** wrote: Have you already find the MokoMakefile? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile -Steven On 6/12/07, Ivan -sk8- Chavero

Announce list

2007-06-13 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I see the last official announcement was made 25th of April. I really dont want to start this whole thing again, BUT, can we please get another update? Even if its just, we dont know when answer. Thanks E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm

Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 11:29 +0200, Fabien wrote: On 6/7/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomasz Zielinski wrote: If with GTK/Matchbox we cannot achieve such rich, fluid and, erm..., fluid GUI as iPhone, maybe it's not too late to drop

Re: Preorder

2007-06-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:20 +0300, Aloril wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:02 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:26 -0400, Duncan Hudson wrote: But what does that link offer? So I posted my name on the list months ago - does that guarantee that I'll get one of

RE: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as iPhone?

2007-06-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 08:19 -0700, David Schlesinger wrote: If someone really wanted to keep things lightweight, you could even do a curses based interface as an option. 31337 HaXoRs and their console based phones. Keen. I bet you could sell _dozens_ of those. My dad will buy one

Disconnected LCD

2007-05-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Will the phone still work - bootup and function as normal - if I disconnect the LCD? It for an experimental, low power, vacuum environment. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: First impressions of Neo1973

2007-05-14 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:53 +0200, Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote: Piotr Duda napisał(a): models) use the reject-on-left and answer-on-right style. Maybe Im mistaken but I always tought that all others just do the oposite? Have no idea where did it come from, considering

Re: Preorder

2007-05-09 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:43 +0200, Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote: 2007/5/8, Mike Sandman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +1 - sandman Could you please stop writting me too, ++1 etc? You can express you will of buying Neo1973 on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buying_Interest_List Sorry, I started all

Preorder

2007-05-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Are there any plans for pre-ordering of phones? I reayyy want/need one. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Preorder

2007-05-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
in Linux/embedded. Will be glad to contribute to community, but my history of professional coding has stopped 12 years ago. Regards, Tigran Zakoyan. Dmitri Hrapof wrote: Hans van der Merwe пишет

Re: Release (WAS: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko)

2007-04-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:26 +0200, Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I don't think