Re: extras-assistant: autobuilder fails, no reason given?

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas Waelti
as seen in the logfile. (Starting with the comamnds visible after the Copying source files to work dir / Extracting sources to work dir log entries) Happy hacking -Tom On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Thomas Waelti twae...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all Autobuilder fails on my uploads, but I can't

extras-assistant: autobuilder fails, no reason given?

2010-11-06 Thread Thomas Waelti
Hello all Autobuilder fails on my uploads, but I can't find the reason in the logs available. Any ideas on how to proceed? Did I overlook something? You can find more info about this build here: https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/recaller_2.1.0-1/ Thanks -Tom [2010-11-06 22:34:01]

Re: MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Waelti
In my very limited personal experience from my first few hours with Qt Creator yesterday, I can already tell you that it doesn't help in security at all: I was browsing the example projects and decided to take a look at the calendar example. Debugging it on the device caused it to replace the

Re: Enhanced Recorder App

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Waelti
Perhaps you could help me to add this function to my recaller widget? It's written in Python and the source can be downloaded fro the repos. That would be the easiest way for sure. -Tom Hello, I am looking for a recorder which is able to start recording and stop recording when the button

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Waelti
wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 21:58 +0200, Thomas Waelti wrote: Thanks everybody for your extensive support in documenting this process. While I encountered a few smaller stumbling blocks, it worked quite good (especially once the docs got updated by David) I can report halfway success

Re: Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Waelti
Thanks everybody for your extensive support in documenting this process. While I encountered a few smaller stumbling blocks, it worked quite good (especially once the docs got updated by David) I can report halfway success for now :-) It was impossible to achieve the original target, having a

Help needed: packaging/distributing very small C app

2010-04-19 Thread Thomas Waelti
I'm looking for advanced packaging information for a very small C application. While I've learned to build a .deb for a python app using py2deb, I now face another task of packaging where the effort to package could very quickly become exponentially greater than the effort needed to write the

Re: [pymaemo] hildon-desktop: getting D-Bus?

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
/14 Kimmo Hämäläinen kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 23:19 +0200, ext Thomas Waelti wrote: (Crossposting to maemo-devel, hoping for a Hildon-Desktop or D-Bus expert to pick this up. Original thread is at https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/pymaemo-developers/2010-April/001444

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas Waelti
I would be very interested to see a high-performing ebook reader on the Maemo platform. At hand, I have a 27 MB epub file (90 MB unzipped) with thousands of articles. FBreader chokes on that. Having a speedy reader with nice navigation features would make the N900 stand out from the crowd of

Re: Builder now runs PR1.2 SDK with Qt 4.6 support

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas Waelti
I strongly (but clueless) guess that 1.2 is right around the corner. Tomorrow or this week, so we can play with it over Easter :-) It's a difficult transition period, but well worth a few days of patience. Happy hacking :-) -Tom On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Niels Breet wrote: Hi, I've installed

Re: Download statistics

2010-03-17 Thread Thomas Waelti
Ok, that sounds good. Is app karma documented somewhere? I can only find this: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Karma_for_applications Yes, http://wiki.maemo.org/Karma In fact, it's even nicely linked from your profile page Karma :-) Happy hacking -Tom

Re: Hildon-Desktop: added Widget not shown

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Waelti
Thank you Anderson, much appreciated! -Tom 2010/1/13 Kimmo Hämäläinen kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com: Notice that hildon-desktop does not have any plugins, all plugins are in hildon-home. What you need is killall hildon-home -- it will restart automatically and no reboot is needed. Yesterday I

Re: MeeGo

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas Waelti
These two statements together make it clear for me as a hobby developer on this platform that there is nothing to worry about, topic closed :-) OTOH, I've clearly seen the limits of the App Manager (speed/performance) from a user perspective and hope that the switch to .rpm could improve that.

Re: Testing apps

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Waelti
Virtual machines :-) I have one in which I develop and one for testing. The latter has a filebackup of the full machine so I can just dump it back to the initial state if needed. -Tom Ive built a command-line app. I can bring up the Maemo UI and run the tool from Terminal just fine (from

Autobuilder, where have you gone?

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Waelti
Once again, autobuilder is down for me. Extras Assistant is ok, I can upload my files, but on step 4, the button Move files to autobuilder queue just hangs. I'm tired to filing Bugzillas for these things, couldn't we have an active infrastructure monitoring for these important elements? (Nice

Re: Hildon-Desktop: added Widget not shown

2010-01-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
So would it make sense to add a killall hildon-home to the postinstall of the hildon-desktop-python-loader as an interim fix? Who could do that? (I refrain from adding that to my app, as I think this would be the wrong place :-) Thanks -Tom This is what I've noticed: killall hildon-home

Hildon-Desktop: added Widget not shown

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Waelti
Hello all I've uploaded an alpha version of my shutter home widget (IR shutter for Nikon DSLR) to extras-devel. Functionaly, it works. But now I have a small problem in my installer that I'm unable to resolve: After running the deb, the widget gets installed. It can then be added to the

Hildon-Desktop: added Widget not shown

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Waelti
(Resent with correct time/date) Hello all I've uploaded an alpha version of my shutter home widget (IR shutter for Nikon DSLR) to extras-devel. Functionaly, it works. But now I have a small problem in my installer that I'm unable to resolve: After running the deb, the widget gets installed. It

Re: Does anyone see this?

2009-12-15 Thread Thomas Waelti
Not only did I see your post, but I can confirm your problem, as I have the same: My own emails sent to the list never arrive in my mailing list inboxes, even though I have the settings in the subscriper page set as you describe. Anyone else with that problem? We might need to open a bug in

Re: Simple javascript application on maemo

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
Would it make sense if I would try that route with maeMaps, too? (Because I didn't win any friends to support my proposal of packing a bookmark :-) I'm still a bit afraid of QT, not knowing what version to develop for on the N900 and being a real C++ noob (altough I once created an image

Re: Garage maintenance break

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
And now we have rush-hour on garage... dog slow, four apps queued inside 20 minutes. Is that new server slower or faster than the old one :-) Thanks for keeping an eye on that infrastructure, it really becomes critically important now. Best regards -Tom Hello, Marius Gedminas wrote:

Intercept camera slider open event to default camera app? (N900)

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
Can anybody tell how an app can intercept the camera slider opening event, so that it does NOT call the default camera app? This might be handy for my upcoming version of moodlight, which now has a camera-LED-based flashlight mode thanks to the input from RISKÓ Gergely. It might also benefit

Packaging a bookmark?

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas Waelti
Hello list Some of you might have seen my Google Maps webapplication called maeMaps (http://tomch.com/maemaps.html) As it is a always online app anyway, I would like to distribute through Extras not an offline version, but just a bookmark to the online version. This would have the advantage

Re: Mediaplayer/GStreamer/Tracker: adding new file types?

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Waelti
be happy :-) Any ideas about issue 2? Thanks for all the info - I just LOVE the framework that Maemo 5 offers! -Tom Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 23:55 +0100, Thomas Waelti wrote: Hello all Using gst-launch with playbin2, I'm able to play .ts files on my N900 from the command

Flash in MicroB on N900: Hardware acceleration?

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas Waelti
Still running with 2009.41-10, I'm unsure if the flash player is hardware accelerated or not. In the context menu of Flash player, under SettingsDisplay (first tab from the left), there is one (selected) item called Enable hardware acceleration. This looks good. OTOH, I'm asking this because

Mediaplayer/GStreamer/Tracker: adding new file types?

2009-11-14 Thread Thomas Waelti
Hello all Using gst-launch with playbin2, I'm able to play .ts files on my N900 from the command line. Is there any way to add this ability to the inbuilt mediaplayer? I guess that this involves a few steps, but don't know how to achieve that: - Get Tracker to index .ts files as video files -

Re: how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

2009-11-13 Thread Thomas Waelti
There is no difference, they are synonyms. From http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/mce-dev/mode-names_8h.html : Offline device mode; RF's disabled; alias for flight mode. -Tom 2009/11/11 daniel wilms daniel.wi...@nokia.com: Hi thank you for the fast response; #define

Re: Maemo5 MicroB: javascript API for fullscreen, location, cursor enable?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Waelti
Thanks to Nokia for the great input, this works VERY well :-) (!!!) I will shortly post an update of maeMaps on tmo including this function. Can you explain it to me how it works in terms of accuracy? My first queries only gave me a result in the center of Zurich, over 100 km off my current

Maemo5 MicroB: javascript API for fullscreen, location, cursor enable?

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Waelti
Hello all I'm looking for any information about MicroB maemo-specific javascript API to do the following things: - Switch to fullscreen - Access location information - Enable the cursor Any hints? Thanks -Tom ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: Changing Freemantle Desktop Backgrounds

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Waelti
And because it is a wiki, I just changed it. HINT: you can do similar things in the maemo.org wiki... ;-) -Tom (sorry for slightly OT, but the Wiki Action Group needs to push the Wiki :-) Andrea Grandi ha scritto: More importantly ;-) I don't see Diablo in that list, although that is also

Re: Debmaster: Help for PyMaemo dependency hell on Fremantle?

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Waelti
So I guess there must be a bug somewhere in my package files. There is, it's in the changelog. The canonical place for the version string is in your changelog - debian tools look for that string and assign the version based on that. Here's the first line of your changelog for verion 0.6.4:

Re: Debmaster: Help for PyMaemo dependency hell on Fremantle?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Waelti
The second issue seems to be a bug somewhere between py2deb, autobuilder and the uploader to the repos: the build number isn't recognized by the repo loader. By build number do you mean package version? Yes, I mean package version, sorry for the wrong terminology. Just to clarify things,

Re: Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Waelti
It is just extremely confusing that http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#New_list_for_DIABLO shall be the answer for Allowed sections for FREMANTLE? (All Caps by me) I really hope for the sprint, that's why I voted and commented on that bug 5055. Otherwise, I'll have to

Re: Debmaster: Help for PyMaemo dependency hell on Fremantle?

2009-09-21 Thread Thomas Waelti
Thanks you both for all the support. Unfortunately, from evaluation of your feedbacks, I found out that the information in http://maemo.org/packages/view/mclock/ is outdated and does not reflect the currently uploaded package (build3) but instead still contains the information from an earlier

Re: Nokia PUSH N900. Now open for submissions.

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Waelti
The hackers' guide mentions the light sensor, proximity sensor, and IR port. Can someone from Nokia already anwer some questions about these three interfaces? Glancing at

Python packaging (Was: Re: debmaster priorities [YOUR INPUT HERE])

2009-05-15 Thread Thomas Waelti
Did anybody ever stumble over my two wiki articles about this issue? ;-) They are written from a no-real-clue-but-finally-got-it-working perspective, which might shed a light on the problems these amateur developers (such as myself) face on the platform. http://wiki.maemo.org/Py2deb (accessed