Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Alex Teiche
Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the small screen. I was wondering what suggestions the community had before I get too far into it. What UI elements do you

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Richy
Hey there, I would love to see an XMPP(Jabber) chat-programm. As for notifications: It would be really need if the program adjust to the phones settings. As in default profile - play a sound vibrate maybe vibrate once short too, have the LED blinking (slowly) silent just the LED blinking

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi! Sound's good! What 'chat' protocols: Instant messengers (like Jabber/XMPP, msn, facebook chat..) or irc? I'd really like to see something that supports facebook chat (Hmm.. pidgin supports it on desktop, I wonder if someone could be able to add it to the arm version too..) Which protocols

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread sam tygier
Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the small screen. I was wondering what suggestions the community had before I get too far into

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Alex Teichexelap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, [...] Any other ideas/suggestions? My suggestions come from my laziness of writing somethingh with the virtual keyboard :) So a popup dialog with buttons to quick send user predefined text is welcome. Audio

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Patryk Benderz
My wishlist: -BIG buttons and finger friendly layout. -possibility to set literki as a default keyboard -transport for GG (instant messenger popular in Poland) There is already linux client for GG called Kadu, maybe you could use their libraries? Also Pidgin supports GG transport.

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:22:38AM -0700, Alex Teiche wrote: Which protocols have the highest demand for implementation? Use libpurple or telepathy, then all you need is a UI for setting the various elements of each protocol you wish to support. How should it deal with multiple concurrent chat

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 7/16/09, Alex Teiche xelap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the small screen. I was wondering what suggestions the community had

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Patryk Benderz
Please use elementary and telepathy, with priority on Jabber/XMPP. That's all of my requirements :) Sebastian, do you think elementary is a good choice? I know it looks nice, but we all know FR suffers from low graphics performance. Maybe it should be wiser to choose library which is

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 7/16/09, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl wrote: Please use elementary and telepathy, with priority on Jabber/XMPP. That's all of my requirements :) Sebastian, do you think elementary is a good choice? I know it looks nice, but we all know FR suffers from low graphics performance.

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Sheldon
Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the small screen. I was wondering what suggestions the community had before I get too far into it.

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/16/09, Alex Teiche xelap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the small screen. I was

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread tb
well if possible include sms and maybe email support threaded conversation views - logging the last 3 messages from both sides should be enough more are welcome 2009/7/16 Steven Le Roux ste...@le-roux.info On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Michael Sheldon
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized for the

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
2009/7/16 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:)  I plan on writing a chat application(similar to

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Yogiz
Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel. On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:22:38 -0700 Alex Teiche xelap...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 7/16/09, Yogiz yog...@gmail.com wrote: Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel. I suppose it would be even harder than writing telepathy based app from scratch. ___ Openmoko

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread arne anka
Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel. because pidgin is ugly? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:53:46PM +0200, arne anka wrote: Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel. because pidgin is ugly? Actually there may be more problems with the typically aggressive attitude of the pidgin

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Dave Ball
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote: Alex Teiche wrote: Hello everyone, I recently recieved my A6 FreeRunner, and have been looking for some coding to do:) I plan on writing a chat application(similar to Pidgin) optomized

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
I don't know where FSO is at with a comprehensive contacts database (i.e. beyond sim stored data), but it might be worth talking to them about integrating your contacts store needs as an FSO api? opimd should work quite nicely at the moment. ___

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Alex Teiche
Wow everyone, thanks for all your suggestions! @Michael: Thanks for the offer, but I don't think its really worth the learning curve of figuring out your whole code base. We've got how many GPS or Web Browser apps now? Two more IM Clients can't hurt:) Here are the things I have decided to

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Ed Kapitein
Perhaps over the top, but how about a button/menu item, to send your gps coordinates to your buddys? (nice feature for the comming holidays ;-) ) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.980421667mlon=4.358515000zoom=17 Kind regards, @ On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:48 -0700, Alex Teiche wrote: Wow

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread David Ford
because pidgin takes a lot of ram, is cpu heavy and does a lot of disk activity. that wheel is sort of acceptable on a fat desktop, but not on a cellphone :) Yogiz wrote: Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel.

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Ford da...@blue-labs.org writes: Yogiz wrote: Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel. because pidgin takes a lot of ram, is cpu heavy and does a lot of disk activity. that wheel is sort of acceptable on a fat