Re: [FSO/SHR/debian] SMS location app

2008-12-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2008/12/25 Angus Ainslie angus.ains...@gmail.com I've started an app to help find lost or borrowed Freerunners. It watches for specially formatted SMSs and when it sees the right one it SMSs back its location. Put [1] in /usr/bin/ Put [2] int /etc/init.d/ chmod +x

IO errors when booting from SDHC 4gb Sandisk card

2008-12-31 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, I wanted to try out hackable and bought a 4gb sdhc card. I unpacked the fat and ext2 filesystems onto the card, but I get this kind of errors: mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/write command Each time the errors come up at a different time during the boot process, seems like they're

Re: IO errors when booting from SDHC 4gb Sandisk card

2008-12-31 Thread Michal Brzozowski
most likely the old sd_clk (or so) issue. how old is your u-boot? I just flashed one from http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/ and still have this error. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: IO errors when booting from SDHC 4gb Sandisk card

2008-12-31 Thread Michal Brzozowski
most likely the old sd_clk (or so) issue. how old is your u-boot? I just flashed one from http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/ and still have this error. interesting. i thought it was fixed in recent u-boots. see https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/174

Re: IO errors when booting from SDHC 4gb Sandisk card

2008-12-31 Thread Michal Brzozowski
interesting. i thought it was fixed in recent u-boots. If so, it is fixed in 2.6.28 kernel. I have similar trouble with Kingston 4GB SDHC, and with 2.6.24 i can't get access to SD card (only sometimes, very rarely) even with messing with sd_max_clk parameter. With 2.6.28, without specifying

Re: [2008.12] Pause mplayer on call ?

2009-01-21 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/20 Dylan Reilly drei...@atariland.net Pausing mplayer is probably going to be problematic without re-writing it. Firstly, you would have to run it in slave mode so that you could write to the process using a pipe. How about pausing and starting on a signal? No need to read from a

Re: Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Come on, this thing is slow! Scrolling has a 2 sec latency! Totally unusable for me. 2009/1/23 Steven ** montgoss+openmokocommun...@gmail.commontgoss%2bopenmokocommun...@gmail.com Pressing the power button brings up a small menu. One of the options is suspend. Suspending this way takes a

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Another issue I noticed is the illume keyboard is very slow. Sometimes it freezes for 2 seconds, usually on the 2-3 letter. I don't remember having this on Om2008.12 2009/1/24 Richy klemms...@gmail.com Same here! On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 23:08, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: SHR Unstable

2009-01-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
And yet another thing to note is that the Messages app doesn't refresh when a new sms comes. Need to restart Messages. 2009/1/25 wp wpmaill...@gmail.com Ok, ophonekitd solved the problem. GSM is not controlable? I'm a developer of new shr-settings app, and GSM works for me. What problems

next generation keyboard layout (illume)

2009-01-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, Here's a keyboard layout that I've created. The idea is to have a finger friendly keyboard good for normal text as well as terminal input. It needs some polish, but I'm sure you'll have cool ideas how to make it better, so I'm releasing now. Features: - doesn't use the dictionary (I've

Re: Someone stole my Neo Freerunner... :(

2009-01-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/26 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no Also, a stolen phone could wait for a special message. If you give it up because the telco and police won't bother - have the phone brick itself by wiping out its flash memory. Or better, change the boot to display This phone is stolen from . .

Re: next generation keyboard layout (illume)

2009-01-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/26 Giorgio Marciano ledz...@writeme.com How can i install it on my SHR unstable? thanks Sorry, forgot about it :-) Download it to /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/keyboards/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: next generation keyboard layout (illume)

2009-01-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/26 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org I can't understand how these keys... - Some keys are very thin and are on the edges of the screen. You use them by pressing the GTA's case near the screen (I take no responsibility if doing that damages your phone). - The very thin key on

Re: next generation keyboard layout (illume)

2009-01-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/26 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org Pressing the case to simulate a mouse press at the edge of the touch screen is a really cool undocumented feature :-) I do it regularly to use these extremely thin scroll bars in some apps Yes, but maybe it's undocumented because it's

Re: Someone stole my Neo Freerunner... :(

2009-01-27 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/27 Lothar Behrens lothar.behr...@lollisoft.de Hi, sorry for you all that lost your phone, stolen or lost anyhow by being careless. I also had lost a phone, but not my FR :-) I read the thread, and think about my contract. I have no gprs as of my old phone didn't let me opening web

Re: [SHR] illume predictive keyboard is too slow

2009-01-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/29 Olof Sjobergh olo...@gmail.com I think most problems could be solved by using a dictionary format similar to what you describe above, i.e. something like: match : candidate1 candidate2; frequency for example: vogel : Vogel Vögel; 123 That would mean you can search on the

Re: [SHR] illume predictive keyboard is too slow

2009-01-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/1/29 Olof Sjobergh olo...@gmail.com It did not mean all possible misspellings should be included, only the normalisation which removes accented chars etc. So for normal English, there would be almost no extra size compared to now. The current way of correcting typos by checking all

Re: Finger friendly scrolling - Was: [SHR] Miscellanious minor issues

2009-01-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
So the contacts aren't scrolled until you press the scroll bar, move to the desired letter, and let it go? I think it's a great idea. It gets rid of the sluggish scrolling that's a real nuisance in SHR (and other distros). 2009/1/29 Steven **

Re: multitouch possible?

2009-02-02 Thread Michal Brzozowski
I just opened a drawing program and played with it using two fingers. The cursor is always between the fingers, but it depends on how hard you press with each of them. The curve is very specific because of this (oscillates). I think it's possible to detect two finger scrolling and other gestures

good 2.6.28 kernel for 2008.12

2009-02-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hello, I've been using 2008.12 for a while now and it works really good. But there's a need to change to a 2.6.28 kernel due to some bugs. I tried the newest andy-tracking, but it's really unstable. Qpe and Enlightenment crash all the time, Duke3d doesn't work. Can anyone suggest a 2.6.28 image

Re: [FSO M5] - Answering a Call

2009-02-18 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/17 SCarlson scottrcarl...@gmail.com Hello All -- Does anyone know a good fix for the answer call delay.. When I get a call, I hit the answer button, and it takes approx. 3-5 seconds for the phone to actually pick the call up??? What the heck is it doing? heh... Has anyone tweaked

Re: Safe to move off QtE yet?

2009-02-18 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 HouYu Li kara...@gmail.com Hi. try FSO. SHR is good but wakes up a little bit slower than FSO. Does FSO come with Paroli now? Is it better than Zhone? I used Zhone for a while, but it's unusable for me, although pretty. ___ Openmoko

Re: [Query] Known Good SD cards

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 Shaz shazal...@gmail.com Hi everyone, I need some guidance on uSD cards because i tried a few locally available to my town but none are working. My understanding is that its the quality or I am making a mistake in compatibility. I need some help in understanding this issue. If

Re: [Query] Known Good SD cards

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Do you need ones that can boot or just for storage? Do you really have a card that doesn't work with Qi and yet works ok with the kernel? Yes, Kingston 4gb SDHC

Re: [Query] Known Good SD cards

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Do you need ones that can boot or just for storage? Do you really have a card that doesn't work with Qi and yet works ok with the kernel

Re: Safe to move off QtE yet?

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm 2009/2/19 HouYu Li kara...@gmail.com Hi. try FSO. SHR is good but wakes up a little bit slower than FSO. Does FSO come with Paroli now? Is it better than Zhone? I used Zhone for a while, but it's unusable for me, although pretty. I know

Re: [Debian]Voice recorder - ecasound -- Help

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com Hi community I am running the Hackable1 , and try to find a lightweight and simple way to record and play voice notes. I discovered ecasound via a google search. (

Qi powers off after few seconds

2009-02-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
It often happens to me that when I turn on the phone, Qi turns it off again after a few seconds, when the boot process has already started. It only boots normally when I turn it on the second time. Might after battery removal. Anybody else noticed this? Michal

Re: (Android) Uboot

2009-02-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/20 Paul p...@nlpagan.net Hello folks, Since a long time I can do something with the Freerunner again (my mother died a few weeks ago...) I have heard about Android images of Michael Trimarchi. But in the readme on his site, he mentions that the Uboot environment needs to be

Re: [Query] Known Good SD cards

2009-02-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/19 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm 2009/2/19 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Do you need ones that can boot or just for storage? Do you really have a card that doesn't work

Re: Broken Screen

2009-02-22 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/2/16 Filip Onkelinx fi...@linux4.be You might want to check with pulster, they offer a repair service (€89 for repairing a screen) http://www.pulster.de/engl/index.html?d__omrepair__OpenMoko_Freerunner_repair_service793.htm F. I killed the touchscreen in my phone :-(. The display

Re: Solar backpack (Solar charger)

2009-05-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/5/21 Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk If you want something effective for emergencies or extended periods away from power a mechanical device is probably more effective. For cycling a good dynamo will provide more, and more reliable, power than any bike-mounted solar panel.

Re: Solar backpack (Solar charger)

2009-05-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
at http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/lighting/shimano.html but remember you will have to have a good voltage regulator or better a battery charger able to charge itself and the neo at time, in the middle, to avoid the current variance of the dinamo 2009/5/23 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm

Re: Solar backpack (Solar charger)

2009-05-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
already mounted. once I got information I will post. 2009/5/23 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: Ok, I wasn't specific enough. What I'm looking for is exactly that thing in the middle :-) that will output the 500mA or 1A through a USB. Is a bike dynamo powerful enough to provide the 500mA

Re: Visit at Openmoko

2009-05-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
I always thought that people being laid off is a sign that the company is trying to stay in business. A sign of a company going down is (where I come from) sad gentlemen coming to the office and taking out the computers. Speculating in this thread is not really helping them at the moment, so just

Re: Bluetooth Keyboard for Openmoko

2009-05-28 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Pulster is now offering a really nice bt keyboard in the OM accessories. It's about the size of the FR. 2009/5/28 Jose Luis Garduno deepsi...@gmail.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: A wired but rollable mini keyboard that was discussed can be

Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-03 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:27:00 +1200 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com said: apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/ i'm not totally convinced, but it would be

Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-03 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com but u'll hit dead space (nothing) about 50% more often than the actual key you intended to hit now (as 50% of the area it would have normally used is now dead space). for a physical kbd it might help as u have better tactile feel as u have

Re: a new keyboard - discuss and critique

2009-06-03 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/3 Steve Mosher st...@openmoko.com Perhaps he thinks by presenting the keyboard in that way you will be more careful in where you tap your finger.. Worth a test.. but in theory I agree with you.. more dead space = more failed keypresses..im touching put nothing is happening... If

Re: Launcher/Home Page (alpha) Release 0.22

2009-06-09 Thread Michal Brzozowski
c_c, this app rocks. I'd like to know how to put it in the place of the default illume home page, so it's the first screen when you boot the phone. It's much better. Btw, some icons are missing in launcher, while they show up in illume home. For example contacts, dialer, messages. PhoneLog shows

Re: OM2009 unstable 11 July unstable broken?

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
How to build OM2009 unstable? I'm following this page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakeFile But make fso-gta02-unstable-image it freezes at: NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (6113/6882) [88 %] make fso-gta02-testing-image goes beyond that point (hasn't finished yet). Michal 2009/6/12

Re: some questions before buying FreeRunner

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/12 a dehqan dehqa...@gmail.com Do you mean without that 47k resistor ,Fr will detect current lower or higher ?what will happen after that (detect incorrectly) . Another questions ; 1- Should pouch be bought ,Without pouch ,ISn't there any problem with carring FR with ourself without

Re: Better handling of AUX and POWER buttons

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Speaking about this, how to change the default behavior of the buttons in Om2009? I know that both of them come as X events and can be observed using xev, but the power button suspends the device even if you're not running X, so its action is probably controlled by power management. But APM

Re: Better handling of AUX and POWER buttons

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/12 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm writes: Speaking about this, how to change the default behavior of the buttons in Om2009? I know that both of them come as X events and can be observed using xev, but the power button suspends the device even

Re: Better handling of AUX and POWER buttons

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/12 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm Thanks! Is there a daemon that I can -HUP or do I need to restart for the changes to take effect? I will answer this myself, it's dbus-daemon. But have another question though :-), is it possible to create custom actions, for example run

Re: Better handling of AUX and POWER buttons

2009-06-12 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/12 Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Thanks! Is there a daemon that I can -HUP or do I need to restart for the changes to take effect? Restart frameworkd. r...@om-gta02:~# ps -A | grep frameworkd r...@om-gta02:~# Going back to the original point. It would be best if there was

new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, I gave it a shot and made a new keyboard. It's only 2 days old, but it's working well for me so I'm announcing it. http://pvtrace.com/literki_0.0.1-r0_armv4t.ipk Assumptions: - Ignore window managers and always stay on top. - Turn on transparency if it's covering something you're typing. If

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi Some comments: - Could you change the font of the letters, not it's serif, I'd maybe prefer sans-serif (easier to read on screen) Currently I'm using a compiled in bitmap with all the letters on it (just ASCII + special keys). So first I'd need to

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: Hi, I gave it a shot and made a new keyboard. It's only 2 days old, but it's working well for me so I'm announcing it. http://pvtrace.com/literki_0.0.1-r0_armv4t.ipk

Re: BlackBerry to Openmoko

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com 2009/6/16 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: (c) eMail - I have at least 2 accts pushed to my Blackberry don't know the current state, there are clients available, but inhowfar the are really usable with the fr (screen estate, navigation), i

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi - What's the square button in bottom left? - what' the + bottom left? ctrl and alt respectively :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm Hi, I gave it a shot and made a new keyboard. It's only 2 days old, but it's working well for me so I'm announcing it. I uploaded it on opkg.org. I fixed the layout a bit, and added support for xrandr (so it now rotates nicely and has

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org Hi All, There have been some major show stoppers fixed in the last week. As usual there are additional instructions here. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 I found two problems so far. 1. When waking up from suspend while in horizontal mode,

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
What do you mean? 2009/6/16 jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com nice, gona have to give this one a try. any way to get rid of the name overlay? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fmwrote: 2009/6/16 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm Hi, I gave

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-16 Thread Michal Brzozowski
It's a button that lets you show and hide the keyboard. 2009/6/16 jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com on opkg the package screen shots say literki on the top right. is that just a watermark or part of the keyboard overlay? On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Michal Brzozowski ruso

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/17 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:04:22PM +0200, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/6/16 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm I gave it a shot and made a new keyboard. It's only 2 days old, but it's working well for me so I'm announcing it. I

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/17 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: I found two problems so far. 1. When waking up from suspend while in horizontal mode, there is garbage on the screen and it's unusable. Can you take a photo to show

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/17 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: Sure, http://pvtrace.com/P6170618.JPG It's a photo of an incoming call waking up the phone in landscape mode. looks bad! Please report to

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
RTF config file :-), you can set the keyboard size in there. Polish or other diacritic signs are not high on the list as I don't use them :-) 2009/6/17 Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.pl Hi Michal, Great idea! I was wondering... it would be much more comfortable to type letters, if

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/17 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: 5. The battery meter in illume is broken, it shows 33% when the battery is full, now it's showing 28%, while it should be showing 88%. Did you delete /home/root/.e

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-17 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hit the desktop icon again runs 'killall literki'. W dniu 17 czerwca 2009 23:23 użytkownik jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com napisał: is there anyway to end literki other than opening a new instance of it and waiting for it to crash? 2009/6/17 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm RTF

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/19 Jose Luis Perez Diez perezd...@gmail.com El Thursday, 18 de June de 2009 22:52:30 Steven Le Roux va escriure: Another feedback : After a while, receiving a call make paroli buging , the phone is vibrating endless. (infinite loop ?) I can't stop it, and have to put the battery

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/19 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com 2009/6/20 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm: Is there a way to make Paroli and frameworkd keep old logs and not deleting them? easy - create a script which runs at shutdown, to copy the log file(s) in question to an archive location

Re: new qwerty keyboard, Literki

2009-06-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/16 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm Hi, I gave it a shot and made a new keyboard. It's only 2 days old, but it's working well for me so I'm announcing it. http://pvtrace.com/literki_0.0.1-r0_armv4t.ipk I made some improvements that you suggested and fixed a few small bugs

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/20 Joerg Lippmann jl_li...@donalbain.de OK, maybe I should explain. My mail should not be taken as FUD. I have a freerunner since it came out a year ago and - being a linux user since 1994 - I was prepared to get something rough and unfinished. But I hoped that it would one day be

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/23 Brian C bria...@ocf.berkeley.edu I can buy a $20 pay-as-you go phone that has reliable SMS and voice calls, audible call volume, decent battery life, a fast boot process, reliable input method, a working calendar, and a few silly games. This made me believe that the software side

font size in other window managers

2009-06-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, I'm playing with other window managers in Om2009, like matchbox and icewm. All the apps that I run use insanely small fonts and buttons. Same as when you run them in pure X. Does anyone have an idea how to change this behaviour? Is it through some env variables? Thanks, Michal

Re: font size in other window managers

2009-06-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Got it: forgot to specify -dpi when launching X. 2009/6/23 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm Hi, I'm playing with other window managers in Om2009, like matchbox and icewm. All the apps that I run use insanely small fonts and buttons. Same as when you run them in pure X. Does anyone have

Re: font size in other window managers

2009-06-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/23 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com If you continues your window managers tests please reports them on: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Windows_Managers I tried matchbox-wm, but it didn't play nicely with override_redirect windows (literki). So now I'm trying icewm, and it's working as

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-23 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/23 pike pike-openm...@kw.nl Hi Not sure when this started, but it might be since flashing to om2009 release5: I can't ssh into my Neo any more. Not over wifi, and not over usb. ~pike$ ping 192.168.0.200 [..] --- 192.168.0.200 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2

Re: font size in other window managers

2009-06-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/23 Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org Hi, I'm playing with other window managers in Om2009, like matchbox and icewm. All the apps that I run use insanely small fonts and buttons. Same as when you run them in pure X. Does anyone have an idea how to change this behaviour?

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/24 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org do you understand the weight involved with using c++? without very very careful management, c++ is rather hefty for embedded devices. granted, having 128M to work in is indeed far more tenable than smaller devices but it's still onerous. C is much

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hmm, that is one very aspect of C++ I wasn't aware of. 2009/6/24 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org that is one typical aspect. Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/6/24 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org mailto:da...@blue-labs.org do you understand the weight involved with using c++? without

Re: Om2009 testing release 5

2009-06-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/19 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm I had the phone go into unresumable suspend. I received a call while it was suspended, it woke up and I answered the call. I don't remember if I put it down or the other side. Then the phone went to suspend again, and there was another call

Re: SHR annoyances (+ a few workarounds)

2009-06-24 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/24 Jon Levell openm...@coralbark.net Midori === Aside from the superuser-warning banner (which will be gone in the next release), the keyboard shortcuts (e.g. F11 for full screen) aren't available in Literki. There's a config file for accelerator keys (~/.config/midori/accels)

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/25 Laura Vance van...@thespazcat.com The thing that I think is a complete absurdity is the fact that so much of the software for the FR is written in an interpreted language (Python). This alone contributes to the slowness of the device. Heck, the frameworkd is a python program. (top

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/25 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de That said, this is exactly the reason why I have decided to go with Vala for FSO 2.0 -- it combines a high abstraction level with the raw performance of C. Is there any rough schedule for releasing FSO 2.0?

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/25 mobi phil m...@mobiphil.com I agree that C++ compiler produces larger footprint. This is due to the more complex abstraction, expanded templates etc. Normally memory density doubles each year and prices halfs. But the Freerunner has 128mb of RAM, and I don't see it doubling every

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/25 mobi phil m...@mobiphil.com How long do you think people will carry arround the freerunner in their pockets, when next year the same time you will be able to buy a crap :) nvidia tegra based device with 500MB memory for 200$ ? Plan for the future, not for the past :) Nvidia

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/25 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de Am Mittwoch, den 24.06.2009, 17:32 -0600 schrieb Laura Vance: The thing that I think is a complete absurdity is the fact that so much of the software for the FR is written in an interpreted language (Python). It becomes less of an

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-26 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/26 Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org - when author formats message such that his reply is just below the text he replies to, he will likely see and re-read it while typing, and really reply to it, not to something else that his oppoinent never wrote. True, but sometimes you want

Re: which gps app can do this?

2009-06-28 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Alternatively, place POIs along the coast (how dense depends on the accuracy you want to have). Calculate the minimum distance from the set of POIs. 2009/6/28 mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com hi lanzo, I have to say that your problem is interesting, but it's a bit too specific for a GPS

Re: [shr-unstable] omgps wsod with full

2009-06-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
By wsod do you mean the enlightement crashed, this is very bad... dialog? 2009/6/29 jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com well... i think iv just narrowed it down. all my current applications wsod on full screen because i, once again, set the illume keyboard to none. once i set it back to

Re: [shr-unstable] omgps wsod with full

2009-06-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Same thing happens on Om2009 by the way. Illume or enlightenment bug. Don't blame literki :-) 2009/6/29 jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com i read some where else someone calling it the white screen of death wsod, or enlightement crashed, this is very bad... On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:46

Re: [QtMoko] New debian images V3

2009-06-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/29 Linus Gasser ine...@markas-al-nour.org Is there a way to mix Qtmoko and an X-server? I know it's a common question, I just don't remember the last answer (it might be 42, but...) It's possible to run qtopia phone apps on X-server (Om2008 does it). I've been trying to compile those

Re: [QtMoko] New debian images V3

2009-06-29 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/6/29 Fabio Locati fabioloc...@gmail.com Is there a way to mix Qtmoko and an X-server? I know it's a common question, I just don't remember the last answer (it might be 42, but...) Radekp is working on it ;) Probably the next qtmoko version will have the X server too :) That would be

Re: [omgps] collect feature requests

2009-06-30 Thread Michal Brzozowski
I wish it had smoother scrolling, like tangogps has. I think that layer plugins would be a really good thing. One idea is to use the navit engine (for example) for routing using the vector data from OSM, and then display that on top of the png maps in omgps. By the way, omgps uses about 50% more

Re: Why is it so slow ?

2009-07-01 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/1 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com Just set ELM_ENGINE env variable to x11-16. You must know about /etc/profile, didn't you? ; Why isn't it set by default in SHR? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: New archive file format (was: [omgps] collect feature requests)

2009-07-02 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/2 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org I do not completely understand the reasons why there is a need for (once again) a new file format. As far as I understand the proposal, it is just a file system running in an image file. Like mounting an ISO or any other file system

Re: Turn FR into bike meter

2009-07-02 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/2 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi Hi! I bike and I have a Freerunner. Me too! :-) On Saturday I'm going on a 4 day bike trip. I plan to use Tango for navigation. I'll tell you how it went. I'm taking a paper map and a motorola too just in case :-) Michal

Re: Anyone know a store that sells FreeRunner accs in the US

2009-07-03 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/3 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Christ van Willegencvwille...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Laszlo KREKACSlaszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC if you re-spray the IS, you can remove it and re-apply it... so

Re: The University of São Paulo's intent to join Op enmoko development

2009-07-13 Thread Michal Brzozowski
I smell GTA03 coming :-) 2009/7/13 Giovanni pino.o...@gmail.com WOW! Very good! If governments and universities are involved, we can have more power for developing something good. Best regards, Giovanni On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: this

Re: Illume cpu gadget?

2009-07-14 Thread Michal Brzozowski
You can also use the AUX led. The faster it blinks the more CPU is used. 2009/7/14 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com Does anyone know about an illume gadget showing cpu/swap usage? While using matchbox and the relative cpu applet I feel better my freerunner above all when it's slow to react :)

Re: Illume cpu gadget?

2009-07-14 Thread Michal Brzozowski
What's the best way to get the CPU usage from command line? 2009/7/14 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: You can also use the AUX led. The faster it blinks the more CPU is used. Oh. it's broken after an AUX button

Re: Illume cpu gadget?

2009-07-14 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/14 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote: What's the best way to get the CPU usage from command line? :) It's good that the literki author is interested in this, is he insterested in coding some nice xshape applet ?

Re: why openmoko is so slow? Is it a joke?

2009-07-14 Thread Michal Brzozowski
This reminds me of the situation with linux a few years back. When I was trying it out on my desktop for the first time, it would take me days to configure x-window drivers, sound card, etc, and have a working winmodem was next to impossible. After I managed to do it, I ran around telling people

Re: The University of São Paulo's intent to join Op enmoko development

2009-07-14 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/7/14 Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org Levy, and would like to know if is something that I could do to participate on this new effort opened by you. First I want to say that I do not consider this a new effort, but a continuation of the effort that the Openmoko community started.

Re: using a FreeRunner without cellular service

2009-07-15 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, Yes, it works fine as a handheld computer if you don't put the SIM in or simply turn it off in some settings. Have fun! Michal 2009/7/15 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be Hello list, I am planning on buying a FreeRunner. I need to check with my carrier (Speak Out Wireless in Canada) about

literki update

2009-07-19 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi community, This is a new version of your favorite keyboard. This update is concentrated on using libfreetype for fonts, and this means 2 things: - it supports unicode input (at least I hope so, I tried it only with Polish letters :-)) - it looks much nicer - the keys are much more visible

touchpad on OM

2009-07-20 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi, I'm not sure if anyone has ever tried this. I thought it would be handy to have a mouse pointer on the phone, driven by a touchpad area in the lower part of the screen. To click you just hit an appropriate button. This way you can do left click, right click, and any other mouse buttons you

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