Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
Same problem here. Yesterday I did build conboy-unstable 0.6.1.1 for both Diablo and Fremantle. In Fremantle extras-devel it is, in Diablo extras-devel it's not. https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/conboy-unstable_0.6.1.1/

Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi, does anyone think those mails (see attachment) are actually useful? It does not say who rated my app (because it's almost always anonymous), it does not say how high this person rated my app nor what the total score is now. So basically it provides no information at all. I've got about 10 of

Re: How to get a transparent GtkWindow (fremantle)

2009-11-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 08:28 +0100, Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:15 +0100, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: I thought it was somewhat related to transparency because doing this: gdk_window_reparent(win-window,gtk_widget_get_window(GTK_WIDGET

how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread ibrahim
cheers; I was wondering if there are APIs to programatically manage/change the phone profile (normal-silent-offline-meeting ..etc) in Maemo 5. Can I put the phone to silent or make it offline for sometime ??? Is this controllable? What component of Maemo

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread ibrahim
A small additional question if you don't mind ; If I want to extract the IMSI of the phone SIM, can I use the same code you provided http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=371496postcount=45 but with changing the #define SIM_IMI_SIG get_imei with something else ??? if yes what is it?? thanks

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread daniel wilms
Hi, I was wondering if there are APIs to programatically manage/change the phone profile (normal-silent-offline-meeting ..etc) in Maemo 5. Can I put the phone to silent or make it offline for sometime ??? Is this controllable? have a look at this API [1]. This should provide what

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread ibrahim
thank you for the fast response; #define MCE_DEVICE_MODE_CHANGE_REQ req_device_mode_change WoW!, that looks promising. But how can I use this inside my application to force changing of the Profile/mode of the phone ?? thanks in advance; daniel wilms wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Ferenc Szekely
Hello, Cornelius Hald wrote: Hi, does anyone think those mails (see attachment) are actually useful? It does not say who rated my app (because it's almost always anonymous), it does not say how high this person rated my app nor what the total score is now. So basically it provides no

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! I'm interested in such mails (AFAIK I was possibly even the person who requested the feature ;-)). I'm intersted in getting to know that somebody rated my application since I'm intersted in improving the rating of my applications. Getting a mail makes it possible to react on ratings

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Tim Teulings r...@edge.ping.de wrote: I'm intersted in getting to know that somebody rated my application since I'm intersted in improving the rating of my applications. Getting a mail makes it possible to react on ratings (without regulary polling the web pages

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Ferenc Szekely
Hello, Tim Teulings wrote: snip I would be intersted in getting more information in the mails (currently I walk the link to get more information). So please do not remove this feature (but possibly make it configurable per user if other people are not interested) but enhance it! OK,

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:15 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Tim Teulings r...@edge.ping.de wrote: I'm intersted in getting to know that somebody rated my application since I'm intersted in improving the rating of my applications. Getting a mail makes it possible

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread Faheem Pervez
On 11/11/09, ibrahim ibrahim@asgatech.com wrote: cheers; Hiya, I was wondering if there are APIs to programatically manage/change the phone profile (normal-silent-offline-meeting ..etc) in Maemo 5. Can I put the phone to silent or make it offline for sometime ??? Is this controllable?

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Faheem Pervez
Yes, the get_imsi method exists. So doing that should work but you will have to change some things: get_imsi returns only one argument: an int32 with the IMSI number. Best Regards, Faheem On 11/11/09, ibrahim ibrahim@asgatech.com wrote: A small additional question if you don't mind ; If I

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread daniel wilms
Hi thank you for the fast response; #define MCE_DEVICE_MODE_CHANGE_REQ req_device_mode_change WoW!, that looks promising. But how can I use this inside my application to force changing of the Profile/mode of the phone ?? this describes a dbus-service. How to implement it, depends on

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, I like the idea of the rating mails. In fact the rating mail notified me that my software got an auto-created page on downloads.maemo.org. But it's true that these mails are pretty useless spam without the actual rating. Martin 2009/11/11, Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: On Wed,

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Faheem Pervez wrote: Yes, the get_imsi method exists. So doing that should work but you will have to change some things: get_imsi returns only one argument: an int32 with the IMSI number. How do you find out what methods, interfaces and paths exist for the DBus services? Are they

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/11/11 daniel wilms daniel.wi...@nokia.com: Hi thank you for the fast response; #define MCE_DEVICE_MODE_CHANGE_REQ   req_device_mode_change WoW!, that looks promising. But how can I use this inside my application to force changing of the Profile/mode of the phone ?? this describes a

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Faheem Pervez
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote: Hi, Faheem Pervez wrote: Yes, the get_imsi method exists. So doing that should work but you will have to change some things: get_imsi returns only one argument: an int32 with the IMSI number. How do you find out what

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-11 Thread daniel wilms
ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: 2009/11/11 daniel wilms daniel.wi...@nokia.com: Hi thank you for the fast response; #define MCE_DEVICE_MODE_CHANGE_REQ req_device_mode_change WoW!, that looks promising. But how can I use this inside my application to force changing of the

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:28, Faheem Pervez wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org wrote: Hi, Faheem Pervez wrote: Yes, the get_imsi method exists. So doing that should work but you will have to change some things: get_imsi returns only one argument: an int32

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Faheem Pervez tripp...@gmail.com wrote: My method is quite low-tech: I discovered get_imei by looking at the strings in the About product applet (I have a pre-production device) and putting the required pieces together to make a dbus-send command line with

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Adrián Yanes
Thanks, Anderson for the link ;-) 2009/11/11 Anderson Lizardo anderson.liza...@openbossa.org: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Faheem Pervez tripp...@gmail.com wrote: My method is quite low-tech: I discovered get_imei by looking at the strings in the About product applet (I have a

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-11 Thread Adrián Yanes
I can't understand why Nokia didn't release the dbus-signals in the API documentation. Probably their are one of the most important parts for the developers. Any idea about the present/future of this documentation ? Thanks. Cheers. Adrián. 2009/11/11 Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org: Hi,

Re: Geocoding library for Fremantle?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello, Simon! 2009/11/10 Simon Pickering s.g.picker...@bath.ac.uk: I'm looking for a geocoding library to run on the N900. I want to take the location string attached to those N900 using online contacts who provide it, and plot that on a map (Emerillon). Of course having to parse the message

Re: Mails about ratings from Downloads

2009-11-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
It also looks like there is something wrong with the rating interface. Just right now I got 10 anonymous ratings in just 3 minutes. Yesterday there was also a cluster of 6 ratings in about 5 minutes. Before yesterday I didn't even get one rating every month. To me it looks those are multiple

Re: debhelper-maemo-package-icons

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/10 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:50, Gabriel Schulhof n...@go-nix.ca wrote: I, for one, will stick to 26x26, because older version of Hildon Application Manager do not work with higher rez icons, and I don't want yet another reason to split my source package

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/4 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: Attila said... On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:28:58 Andrew Flegg wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 09:03,  tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: Two days later I notice a blinking orange light in my status bar. I see a new version of the application. I

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com writes: The following is a rant about XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description with some suggestions for improvement... Yeah, as soon as I 'invented' it, I could see how it is not going to work very well. I actually think it is best to ignore this field. My suggestion

RE: Geocoding library for Fremantle?

2009-11-11 Thread Simon Pickering
GeoClue offers a geocoding api, but as we use liblocation rather than GeoClue, and as I remember someone saying at the summit (in the presentation on location stuff) that there would be an api to do (reverse)geocoding, I was just wondering if this is indeed the case and when we might

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 10, 2009, at 13:27, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 13:17, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Gabriel Schulhof wrote: maemo-version/maemo-release can solve different Build-Depends: fields maemo version provides also /etc/maemo_version so one can check it in /debian/rules when

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-11 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/11/10 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Nov 10, 2009, at 13:27, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 13:17, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Gabriel Schulhof wrote: maemo-version/maemo-release can solve different Build-Depends: fields maemo version provides also

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Till Harbaum / Lists
Hi, the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he did not yet reply. Till Am Mittwoch 11 November 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: Same problem here. Yesterday I did build conboy-unstable 0.6.1.1 for both Diablo and Fremantle. In Fremantle extras-devel it is, in Diablo

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Bruce Forsberg
The Nokia folks must be having a N900 release party and not available. I went ahead and wrote a bugzilla report on the problem. Bruce On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote: Hi, the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Forsberg wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote: the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he did not yet reply. The Nokia folks must be having a N900 release party and not

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 20:30 +0100, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote: the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he did not yet reply. Niels in on vacation, but I guess/hope someone else will fix it. Conny ___ maemo-developers

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 14:45 -0500 schrieb Ryan Abel: On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Forsberg wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote: the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he did not yet reply.

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 11, 2009, at 15:29, Marius Vollmer wrote: My suggestion is to either use the Debian changelog, or if this sounds too technical for the end user, agree on some way to mark user-relevant changes in the Debian changelog (by using USER: as a prefix for a one-line summary or by having a

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 11, 2009, at 17:30, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: If you don't change the name, it won't make it through extras-testing: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist#Legal_issues Quote: It needs to be clear that the product is not officially supported by Nokia, Maemo or other

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 11, 2009, at 22:19, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 11.11.2009, 14:45 -0500 schrieb Ryan Abel: On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Forsberg wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote: the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed

Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-11 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Hello! This email is a set of action points that were brought up during the QA meeting on IRC which Valerio suggested. I felt the meeting was quite productive, we have some more things to discuss and we have some 'actionable items' as it were. To begin, there is a general

Re: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-11 Thread Edward Page
The results of the meeting all sound good. As part of the UX work, should we include the application ratings as part of the testing interface? We just had someone step through random areas of an app, it seems we should leverage this and remind them to rate it. Which reminds me, any reason Maemo

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Graham Cobb
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:29:55PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com writes: The following is a rant about XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description with some suggestions for improvement... Yeah, as soon as I 'invented' it, I could see how it is not going to work very

popularity-contest (was Re: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC)

2009-11-11 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, ext Edward Page wrote: Which reminds me, any reason Maemo doesn't use Debian's popularity contest? At least at a community level there is https://garage.maemo.org/projects/popcon/ -- Quim Gil open source advocate Maemo Devices @ Nokia ___

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-11 Thread Quim Gil
ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: Can we change the name of the package? I know that is PITA, but you risk running afoul of Nokia if your package name begins with maemo, trademark and all that. Can you just swap it around to version-maemo? We are asking the renaming of pure end user apps

Re: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-11 Thread Tim Teulings
Hello! That all sounds OK. One other point that just came into my mind. Is it possible (I havn't yet promoted something) to leave some message to the testers while promoting application to extras-testing (or even leave permantent comments regarding testing as part of the application