RE: Fremantle: HildonCheckButton with two labels

2009-09-20 Thread ext-mox.soini
Hi,

The purpose of the two labels in HildonButton, is to have different semantics 
for the labels.
The first one is title, the second one is value (HildonPickerButton) or 
description (Hildonbutton)

The checkbutton doesn't really fit so well with this kind of semantics. So 
you're not really supposed to have two labels there.
So I guess you have something weird in your UI design.

If you put the checkbutton widget on a row of it's own, there should be enough 
width for any sane text for the single label.
If you have lack of space, then the first thing to do is to reduce the length 
of the string.

BR,

   Mox


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Subject: Re: Fremantle: HildonCheckButton with two labels

Ah, I forgot another thing I tried:

In my HildonButton subclass. Instead of setting the GtkCellView using
hildon_button_set_image(), I also tried gtk_button_set_image(). The
problem with the latter is, that it's just never shown. Probably
HildonButton is somehow overriding the image part of GtkButton.

Cheers!
Conny



On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 11:55 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm trying to create a Hildon check button with two labels. The problem
 is that HildonCheckButton only supports one label. Why? I don't know,
 but I'm looking for a work around.

 What I tried so far:

 * Creating a HildonButton with two labels and an image that looks like a
 check box.
 Does work somehow, but looks slightly different is not themable.

 * Creating a subclass of HildonButton and adding as an image a
 GtkCellView with a GtkCellRendererToggle.
 Does work somehow. The problem is that HildonButton calls
 gtk_misc_set_alignment() on the image and a GtkCellView is not a
 GtkMisc, but only a GtkWidget. Therefore this results in many warnings
 and errors.

 * Implementing my own subclass of GtkMisc which proxies a GtkCellView,
 so that I could use this widget as 'image' on HildonButton.
 No success at all. Way to complicated :(


 It looks like the inheritance tree of the Hildon*Buttons is quite messy!
 Are there any plans to fix that or will it be fixed with Qt?

 Anyways, points to a cleaner work around would be highly appreciated!

 Thanks!
 Conny


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Notifications and Fremantle: How should they be done?

2009-09-20 Thread Faheem Pervez
Hi,

In Diablo, getting a notification to popup in the bottom-left corner
(e.g. Modest's new mail notifcations) could be simply done using the
libnotify API as-is. However, in Fremantle, this does not appear to be
the case any more (from what I can tell, anyway) and I was wondering
if anyone had any hints on how to show notifications like the one seen
at 1:15 on the video found on http://maemo.nokia.com/ (New SMS
message received).
I've also tried using libhildonnotification, too, but as it is (in
essence) a wrapper for libnotify, it doesn't help me much and yields
the same result as me using libnotify directly.

Best Regards,
Faheem
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RE: Fremantle: HildonCheckButton with two labels

2009-09-20 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi,

 The purpose of the two labels in HildonButton, is to have different semantics 
 for the labels.
 The first one is title, the second one is value (HildonPickerButton) or 
 description (Hildonbutton)

that's fine with me. The first row is Name of Plugin the second is
Description of plugin. Now it should be possible to enable and disable
those plugins.

 The checkbutton doesn't really fit so well with this kind of semantics. So 
 you're not really supposed to have two labels there.
 So I guess you have something weird in your UI design.

Why does a checkbox does not fit to the title/description semantics? You
can have a something named with title with an additional description
and this thing you want to turn on/off. That's what checkboxes are used
for, no?

Anyways, here is my weird UI :)[1]. It's a list of plugins. For each
plugin you can open a config dialog and an about box. The list might get
long, so it's pannable with the rest of the settings.

Suggestions on how to solve this without writing my own button
implementation are welcome.
But suggestions on how to add a checkbox to a HildonButton or how to add
a second label to a HildonCheckButton are even better - because I like
how it looks :)

Thanks!
Conny

[1] http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/settings_plugins.png


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Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi,

whenever I try to open a HildonNote using the Fremantle Beta2 SDK, my
app crashes with a segfault. This is the last message I get:

Assertion 'c-io_event == e' failed at pulsecore/socket-client.c:197,
function connect_io_cb(). Aborting.

When running the code on a real device it is working. It also plays a
short sound when showing a note. This and that the error mentions
pulseaudio lets me think that it has something to do with this sound
notification.

Do other have the same problem? Is there a way to make it work in the
SDK?

Short example code for testing:

GtkWidget *note = hildon_note_new_information(parent, Hello World!);
gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(note));
gtk_widget_destroy(note);

BTW, opening a self made GtkDialog with gtk_dialog_run() does not crash
and does not play a sound.

Thanks!
Conny



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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread David Greaves
Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use the
 usb port. I have the following question.
 When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide power does it?
 Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?
 
 Greetings
 
 [1] http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/

I saw the interesting responses to the 'hijack' about gadget mode - but did you
get an answer to the host mode question Kees?

I'm quite interested in this too...

David


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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hi David,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote:
 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 Hi,

 I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use the
 usb port. I have the following question.
 When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide power does 
 it?
 Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?

 I saw the interesting responses to the 'hijack' about gadget mode - but did 
 you
 get an answer to the host mode question Kees?

No, I found a QA from Nokia World stating something like: probably
the same level of support as was done for n800/n810. What this means I
don't know , will we need to patch the kernel again?

The real answer should be here:
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/
but the only thing about USB wrong. it states Micro-USB connector
which is also wrong as it should be mini right?

Still hoping for some good answer or somebody with a device to report success,

Greetings
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Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Fred Lefévère-Laoide
Cornelius Hald a écrit :
 Hi,
 
 whenever I try to open a HildonNote using the Fremantle Beta2 SDK, my
 app crashes with a segfault. This is the last message I get:
 
 Assertion 'c-io_event == e' failed at pulsecore/socket-client.c:197,
 function connect_io_cb(). Aborting.
 
 When running the code on a real device it is working. It also plays a
 short sound when showing a note. This and that the error mentions
 pulseaudio lets me think that it has something to do with this sound
 notification.
 
 Do other have the same problem? Is there a way to make it work in the
 SDK?
 
 Short example code for testing:
 
 GtkWidget *note = hildon_note_new_information(parent, Hello World!);
 gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(note));
 gtk_widget_destroy(note);
 
 BTW, opening a self made GtkDialog with gtk_dialog_run() does not crash
 and does not play a sound.
 
 Thanks!
 Conny
 
 
 
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I noticed that too ...
I thought it was linked to the sound server not being available ... ?

Fred
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Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Cornelius Hald
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:05 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote:
 I noticed that too ...
 I thought it was linked to the sound server not being available ... ?

Ah right, doing:
run-standalone.sh pulseaudio

inside scratchbox does the trick. Sounds like a known problem. Fred,
where do you have that information from? I'll file a bug if it does not
exist already.

Thanks!
Conny


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Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Fred Lefévère-Laoide
Cornelius Hald a écrit :
 On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:05 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote:
 I noticed that too ...
 I thought it was linked to the sound server not being available ... ?
 
 Ah right, doing:
 run-standalone.sh pulseaudio
 

Thaks for the tip : I didn't think of trying that !

 inside scratchbox does the trick. Sounds like a known problem. Fred,
 where do you have that information from? I'll file a bug if it does not
 exist already.

I just noticed the Assertion about pulsecore/socket-client.c and 
thought it might be sound (pulseaudio) related ...
I don't know if there is already a bug filed about that ...

 
 Thanks!
 Conny
 
 

Fred
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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread quim.gil
Hi,

   I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use the
   usb port. I have the following question.
   When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide power does
   it? Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?

The N900 comes without USB host mode. When I asked I was told that the 
limitation comes at hardware level.

The reason for this decision was the complexity of providing support for 
charging, PC connectivity and USB OTG efficiently through the same Micro USB 
port within the project deadlines. We needed to make choices and the decision 
was to sacrify USB OTG and concentrate on the essential use cases of charging 
and connecting to the PC, bringing the N900 to the market in its due time.

--
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open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia
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Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Cornelius Hald
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:39 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote:
 I just noticed the Assertion about pulsecore/socket-client.c and 
 thought it might be sound (pulseaudio) related ...
 I don't know if there is already a bug filed about that ...

Ah ok, I thought it might be some very well known issue :)
There was no bug yet, so I filed it:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5168

Cheers!
Conny


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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:44 +0200, Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
 Hi, 
 
I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to
 use the 
usb port. I have the following question. 
When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide
 power does 
it? Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host
 mode? 
 
 The N900 comes without USB host mode. When I asked I was told that the
 limitation comes at hardware level. 

I can confirm this. The most reasonable setup would have been to provide
the A connector, but only gadget mode working forthe sales release, then
in a SW update to provide full spectrum support.

Then enters the USB certification with all its mass of quite often
bizantine, obsolete and plain braindead requirements.

One of them being that the certification with A connector can be passed
only if full functionality is provided by the SW.

In this case I propose that complaints are directed to the USB
consortium. I have really come to doubt that it's actually protecting
the consumers' interests in nowadays scenario.

 The reason for this decision was the complexity of providing support
 for charging, PC connectivity and USB OTG efficiently through the same
 Micro USB port within the project deadlines.

Add to that several HW bugs that were discovered during the development
and needed workarounds.

  We needed to make choices and the decision was to sacrify USB OTG and
 concentrate on the essential use cases of charging and connecting to
 the PC, bringing the N900 to the market in its due time. 

Although noone really liked the choice we had to make. We do use our
products and as consumers we are aware of the limitations sometimes we
have to apply.

-- 

Cheers, Igor

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RE: Fremantle: HildonCheckButton with two labels

2009-09-20 Thread ext-mox.soini
 The purpose of the two labels in HildonButton, is to have different 
 semantics for the labels.
 The first one is title, the second one is value (HildonPickerButton) or 
 description (Hildonbutton)

 that's fine with me. The first row is Name of Plugin the second is
 Description of plugin. Now it should be possible to enable and disable
 those plugins.

 The checkbutton doesn't really fit so well with this kind of semantics. So 
 you're not really supposed to have two labels there.
 So I guess you have something weird in your UI design.

Why does a checkbox does not fit to the title/description semantics? You
can have a something named with title with an additional description
and this thing you want to turn on/off. That's what checkboxes are used
for, no?

With Maemo 5, there's now very optimized, small set of widgets, which support 
only certain types of behaviour.

Of course, many of those widgets are customizable, but the idea is that those 
that try to avoid customization will
get UI which is very familiar to Maemo 5 users. Because that way the UI is 
very consistent in all apps.


Anyways, here is my weird UI :)[1]. It's a list of plugins. For each
plugin you can open a config dialog and an about box. The list might get
long, so it's pannable with the rest of the settings.

Suggestions on how to solve this without writing my own button
implementation are welcome.
But suggestions on how to add a checkbox to a HildonButton or how to add
a second label to a HildonCheckButton are even better - because I like
how it looks :)

 [1] http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/settings_plugins.png

Thanks a lot for the screenshot, it helped to understand the situation much 
more than the words alone.

To me it seems you are trying to cram a bit too much functionality into a 
single dialog. 
It's of course feasible, as you show, but it's a bit too Maemo 4 to my taste.

What you could do instead is to replace the checkbuttons with a GtkTreeview 
(inside pannable), i.e. a list:
* you can keep the checkbox graphics  within the list, but that will require 
custom cellrenderer
* remove the info and settings buttons for each plugin for this dialog
* pressing the list item on top of checkbox, would obviously turn it on/off
* pressing the list item elsewhere would open a sub-dialog, which would contain 
the info/settings stuff for the plugin. Could be pannable if needed.
* list supports the two-row text approach, if you want to use that, via custom 
cellrenderer

This way, the dialog becomes a bit more calm, only the most important stuff 
to look at.

BR,

  Mox
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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 19 septembre 2009 à 15:44 +0300, Matan Ziv-Av a écrit :
 BTW, since webcams don't have a USB standard, and need a driver anyway, 
 you can implement such driver over existing transports such as serial or 
 ethernet.

Webcams do have such a standard, it's called UVC (USB Video Class). They
don't need a driver (at least under a recent Linux kernel).

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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread David Greaves
quim@nokia.com wrote:
 Hi,
 
   I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use
 the
   usb port. I have the following question.
   When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide
 power does
   it? Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?
 
 The N900 comes without USB host mode. When I asked I was told that the
 limitation comes at hardware level.
 
 The reason for this decision was the complexity of providing support for
 charging, PC connectivity and USB OTG efficiently through the same Micro
 USB port within the project deadlines. We needed to make choices and the
 decision was to sacrify USB OTG and concentrate on the essential use
 cases of charging and connecting to the PC, bringing the N900 to the
 market in its due time.

Sigh :(

I realised today that PUSH needed a way for software people to get at it easily.

So I spent the entire day packaging an I/O library and porting it to Maemo so
there was a python app that could do:
  ReadDigitalChannel(1)
or
  WriteAllDigital(17)
to do the I/O


This afternoon I created a garage project and then wrote an article:
  http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2009/09/want-to-push-need-kickstart.html

Never mind...

Hmm, can I get dispensation to enter PUSH using a $100 SmartQ ?

Maybe I could run ssh from the N900 and have the N900 drive a Maemo powered
SmartQ... proxy host mode...

David

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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Kees Jongenburger
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Igor Stoppa igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:44 +0200, Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
 The N900 comes without USB host mode. When I asked I was told that the
 limitation comes at hardware level.

 I can confirm this. The most reasonable setup would have been to provide
 the A connector, but only gadget mode working for the sales release, then
 in a SW update to provide full spectrum support.

 The reason for this decision was the complexity of providing support
 for charging, PC connectivity and USB OTG efficiently through the same
 Micro USB port within the project deadlines.

 Add to that several HW bugs that were discovered during the development
 and needed workarounds.

Does this simply mean it's not possible at all? not even for example
booting in HOST only mode?


  We needed to make choices and the decision was to sacrify USB OTG and
 concentrate on the essential use cases of charging and connecting to
 the PC, bringing the N900 to the market in its due time.

 Although noone really liked the choice we had to make. We do use our
 products and as consumers we are aware of the limitations sometimes we
 have to apply.

Thanks a LOT for the answers, its really great to be able to get them!.


Greetings

Kees Jongenburger
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Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

2009-09-20 Thread Frank Banul
Thanks very much for tracking this down. This cost me some time
recently. FWIW, I found that the segfault was more often than not
going to happen, but didn't always happen. Every once in a while I
could get a note up without a segfault.

Frank

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de wrote:
 On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:39 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote:
 I just noticed the Assertion about pulsecore/socket-client.c and
 thought it might be sound (pulseaudio) related ...
 I don't know if there is already a bug filed about that ...

 Ah ok, I thought it might be some very well known issue :)
 There was no bug yet, so I filed it:
 https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5168

 Cheers!
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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Igor Stoppa
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:56 +0200, ext Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Igor Stoppa igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote:

  Add to that several HW bugs that were discovered during the development
  and needed workarounds.
 
 Does this simply mean it's not possible at all? not even for example
 booting in HOST only mode?

AFAIK no. Not even that. Note that i'm no USB expert, but if i have
understood correctly, part of the configuration is done automatically by
the transceiver and that cannot be done because of the missing line from
the connector that would identify the port as A type.

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PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

2009-09-20 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hi David,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote:
 quim@nokia.com wrote:
 The reason for this decision was the complexity of providing support for
 charging, PC connectivity and USB OTG efficiently through the same Micro
 USB port within the project deadlines. We needed to make choices and the
 decision was to sacrify USB OTG and concentrate on the essential use
 cases of charging and connecting to the PC, bringing the N900 to the
 market in its due time.

 Sigh :(

 I realised today that PUSH needed a way for software people to get at it 
 easily.

 This afternoon I created a garage project and then wrote an article:
  http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2009/09/want-to-push-need-kickstart.html

 Never mind...

I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
connectors behind the battery, previous models
used to have serial there.
If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
that would be great.

 Hmm, can I get dispensation to enter PUSH using a $100 SmartQ ?

 Maybe I could run ssh from the N900 and have the N900 drive a Maemo powered
 SmartQ... proxy host mode...

For the submission I am working on planned to use a cypress CY7C68013A
as usb-client but perhaps I can use the CY7C67300
http://www.cypress.com/products/index.jsp?fid=10rpn=CY7C67300 as
host. It does make thing more challenging.
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Re: PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

2009-09-20 Thread Sarah Newman


Kees Jongenburger wrote:

 I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
 connectors behind the battery, previous models
 used to have serial there.
 If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
 that would be great.

I have used bluetooth to serial connectors with the n800 successfully. 
There should be no reason that can't work with the n900. Unfortunately I 
can't find the part or I would give you the part number.
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Re: PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

2009-09-20 Thread Attila Csipa
On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:11:07 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
 connectors behind the battery, previous models
 used to have serial there.
 If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
 that would be great.

Well if you need just serial and don't mind the expense, probably the easiest 
way is a bluetooth modem, a la 
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=582

A bit more out-of-the-box thinking is to do things backwards, i.e. get a beefy 
microcontroller that does USB host mode or USB OTG, and have the N900 connect 
to that. This will also require some software wizardry as the N900 will want 
to present itself as mass storage, but maybe that can be hacked/tweaked.

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Re: PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

2009-09-20 Thread Sarah Newman


Sarah Newman wrote:
 
 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 
 I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
 connectors behind the battery, previous models
 used to have serial there.
 If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
 that would be great.
 
 I have used bluetooth to serial connectors with the n800 successfully. 
 There should be no reason that can't work with the n900. Unfortunately I 
 can't find the part or I would give you the part number.


Actually I used this: http://www.iogear.com/product/GBS301/
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Re: PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

2009-09-20 Thread Frank Banul
Maybe serial control a USB host? http://www.compsys1.com/html/usb_host_kit.html

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote:
 On Sunday 20 September 2009 23:11:07 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
 I indeed planed to use usb-host in my project. perhaps we can use the
 connectors behind the battery, previous models
 used to have serial there.
 If anybody has a bright ideas on how to connect something to the n900
 that would be great.

 Well if you need just serial and don't mind the expense, probably the easiest
 way is a bluetooth modem, a la
 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=582

 A bit more out-of-the-box thinking is to do things backwards, i.e. get a beefy
 microcontroller that does USB host mode or USB OTG, and have the N900 connect
 to that. This will also require some software wizardry as the N900 will want
 to present itself as mass storage, but maybe that can be hacked/tweaked.

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Re: N900 usb host + power charge

2009-09-20 Thread Sarah Newman


quim@nokia.com wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I plan to create a proposal for the push n900[1] and I plan to use the
 usb port. I have the following question.
 When the device is in usb-host mode it should of course provide power does
 it? Is it possible to charge the device while it's in usb-host mode?
 
 The N900 comes without USB host mode. When I asked I was told that the 
 limitation comes at hardware level.


The processor itself can support OTG.

Am I being told that if the kernel was working perfectly I could still 
not use a program such as 
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/usbcontrol/ to manually switch?

I have heard a rumor that perhaps USB is not well enough supported yet 
in the kernel for OMAP3, though very unfortunately I have not taken time 
to look at it.

If I could never ever use the n900 as a host that's absolutely terrible 
and extremely disappointing from a development viewpoint.  It is no 
better than other phones then for many possible applications.
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Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.38

2009-09-20 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla (https://bugs.maemo.org/).
2009-09-14 through 2009-09-20

As of 2009-09-21 Maemo Official Platform contains 1969 items (+10 this week),
including 288 open issues (+6 this week):
* 186 open bugs (+6 this week)
* 6 critical/blocker (no change this week)
* 2 easyfix (no change this week)
* 18 moreinfo (-1 this week)
* 8 crash (+1 this week)
* 13 patch (+2 this week)
* 14 reopened (no change this week)
* 27 unconfirmed (+3 this week)
* 102 open enhancements (no change this week)
* 2 easyfix (no change this week)
* 1 moreinfo (no change this week)
* 1 patch (no change this week)
* 4 reopened (-1 this week)
* 3 unconfirmed (no change this week)

==--- New Items ---==

10 bugs were opened -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5142,5144,5147,5148,5152,5153,5155,5159,5167,5168
):
* [5142] Hildon-desktop crashes when displaying a button on a
transparent background
* [5144] Unable to load pops up even though it loads fine
* [5147] Support silent build rules with automake 1.11
* [5148] running debuild gives a relocation error
* [5152] Link to C code not working (not a link in fact) on Fremantle
camera api dev page
* [5153] libsdl: After call to SDL_WM_SetIcon, SDL windows are not focusable
* [5155] automake warns about underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE
* [5159] MySQL compile: make fails with do_abi_check (maybe ignores -nostdinc)
* [5167] No AppMenu when clicking on HildonEditToolbar's titlebar
* [5168] Application crashes when opening HildonNote and pulseaudio is
not running

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

1 enhancement was opened -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5166 ):
* [5166] Action button sensitivity cannot be set easily for HildonEditToolbar


==--- Resolved Bugs ---==

1 bug was resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2896 ):
* [2896] Busybox prevents installing full versions of tools packages
(cleanly) (FiF)
  ---
  (FiF) indicates the bug is Fixed in Fremantle.

1 bug was resolved invalid -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5144 ):
* [5144] Unable to load pops up even though it loads fine

0 bugs were resolved wontfix.

0 bugs were resolved duplicate.

1 bug was resolved worksforme -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=3749 ):
* [3749] Select connection broken after upgrade

0 bugs were resolved moved.


==--- Resolved Enhancements ---==

2 enhancements were resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=101,1029 ):
* [101] Use the wiki for developer documentation (FiF)
* [1029] Locking keyboard shouldn't lock headset button
  ---
  (FiF) indicates the enhancement is Fixed in Fremantle.

0 enhancements were resolved invalid.

0 enhancements were resolved wontfix.

0 enhancements were resolved duplicate.

0 enhancements were resolved worksforme.

0 enhancements were resolved moved.


==--- Confirmed Items ---==

2 bugs were confirmed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5148,5155 ):
* [5148] running debuild gives a relocation error
* [5155] automake warns about underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE

0 enhancements were confirmed.


==--- Reopened Items ---==

0 bugs were reopened.

0 enhancements were reopened.


==--- Unloved Items ---==

2 bugs were needing love -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4789,5153 ):
* [4789] ipctest.c input_cb seems to pass a reference to a freed
pointer to sscanf
* [5153] libsdl: After call to SDL_WM_SetIcon, SDL windows are not focusable

0 enhancements were needing love.


==--- Top Tens ---==

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2723,2850,4619,3415,2051,4648,995,2166,4871,2435
):
1. (25%) [2723] Pushing key once causes multiple repeats
2. (11%) [2850] On screen keyboard dooesn't always realise that
bluetooth keyboard has been connected or disconnected
3. (11%) [4619] Panning and selecting are mutually exclusive
4. (5%) [3415] device crashes after standby period
5. (3%) [2051] Unable to connect to EAP PEAP MSCHAPV2 without
certificates (+1 this week)
6. (3%) [4648] Clarify which widgets support portrait mode in the
Documentation (+3 this week)
7. (3%) [995] DNS resolution ignores local domain (+3 this week)
8. (3%) [2166] Bluetooth keyboard repeat rate control set too fast
(duplicating letters) (new this week)
9. (3%) [4871] Request for information on FIASCO format used for
firmware images (new this week)
10. (2%) [2435] Cannot remove install Skype icon from the application
menu (new this week)
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Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=176,1635,2527,1043,1767,943,793,3373,4082,4874
):
1. (38%) [176] Ogg Vorbis support
2. (10%) [1635] Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
3. (4%) [2527] Support FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
4. (3%) [1043] 

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.38

2009-09-20 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
(https://bugs.maemo.org/).
2009-09-14 through 2009-09-20

As of 2009-09-21 Maemo Official Applications contains 1352 items (+4 this week),
including 236 open issues (-7 this week):
* 95 open bugs (-7 this week)
* 1 critical/blocker (no change this week)
* 0 easyfix (no change this week)
* 18 moreinfo (-1 this week)
* 0 crash (no change this week)
* 12 patch (+2 this week)
* 7 reopened (no change this week)
* 15 unconfirmed (-1 this week)
* 141 open enhancements (no change this week)
* 2 easyfix (no change this week)
* 9 moreinfo (+1 this week)
* 10 patch (no change this week)
* 0 reopened (no change this week)
* 6 unconfirmed (no change this week)

==--- New Items ---==

2 bugs were opened -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5156,5161 ):
* [5156] Fix modest compilation warning
* [5161] Fix some compilation warnings in GNOME version

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

1 enhancement was opened -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5139 ):
* [5139] Provide multi-user chat (chatroom / IRC) support again


==--- Resolved Bugs ---==

5 bugs were resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1694,3728,4412,4831,5006 ):
* [1694] Unneccesary screen redraws when opening new window in full screen (FiF)
* [3728] Modest reports email username / password incorrect when it is
correct (FiF)
* [4412] Installation error for extras-devel Fremantle packages
(maemo-select-menu-location) (FiF)
* [4831] Game wrapper buttons are not centered (FiF)
* [5006] Mail from talk.maemo.org misses auto-wrapping (annoying
horizontal scrolling) (FiF)
  ---
  (FiF) indicates the bug is Fixed in Fremantle.

0 bugs were resolved invalid.

2 bugs were resolved wontfix -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4744,5117 ):
* [4744] facebook video not working: Flash Player upgrade required
* [5117] retutime only works sometimes

0 bugs were resolved duplicate.

1 bug was resolved worksforme -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=3557 ):
* [3557] Browser tops its windows by itself

0 bugs were resolved moved.


==--- Resolved Enhancements ---==

1 enhancement was resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=3602 ):
* [3602] osso-software-version-rx*4 dependencies prevent removing many
unnecessary packages (FiF)
  ---
  (FiF) indicates the enhancement is Fixed in Fremantle.

1 enhancement was resolved invalid -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=788 ):
* [788] nick completion or nick selection in chatrooms

0 enhancements were resolved wontfix.

0 enhancements were resolved duplicate.

0 enhancements were resolved worksforme.

0 enhancements were resolved moved.


==--- Confirmed Items ---==

0 bugs were confirmed.

0 enhancements were confirmed.


==--- Reopened Items ---==

0 bugs were reopened.

0 enhancements were reopened.


==--- Unloved Items ---==

0 bugs were needing love.

2 enhancements were needing love -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4760,4976 ):
* [4760] Add Truncate Playlist option to Media Player
* [4976] Add option in modest to add/not add new contact when replying to mail


==--- Top Tens ---==

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2405,1112,3298,349,1860,2987,3439,2150,3014,3085
):
1. (14%) [2405] Center dpad press is treated as enter key,
triggering form submit instead of activating finger keyboard (+2 this
week)
2. (10%) [1112] Recurrent alarms do not work reliably (+2 this week)
3. (10%) [3298] Focus not set to location bar after Ctrl-L shortcut is
used (+2 this week)
4. (7%) [349] Browser does not use user certificates from certman
(control panel) (+2 this week)
5. (7%) [1860] Won't pass through VPN (+2 this week)
6. (6%) [2987] Does not always mark e-mails as read
(dovecot/cyrus/google IMAP server) (+2 this week)
7. (4%) [3439] Connects to Audio but does not play sound when
successfully installing package (+2 this week)
8. (3%) [2150] PDF Reader doesn't support internal document hyperlinks
(+2 this week)
9. (3%) [3014] File chooser should remember last directory (new this week)
10. (3%) [3085] Difficult to determine source of incoming IMs if
contact goes offline (new this week)
  ---
  Please visit http://bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free.

Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=2557,761,1282,2758,1235,2710,3929,1851,2670,2962
):
1. (7%) [2557] Keep Sent and Drafts on IMAP server
2. (5%) [761] Please add support for 'fit visible' option to PDF
reader (+1 this week)
3. (5%) [1282] List new applications in Application Manager (+1 this week)
4. (5%) [2758] Setting a device name should set also the hostname (+1 this week)
5. (4%) [1235] Please consider open-sourcing the media player (+1 this week)
6. (4%) [2710] Don't show disclaimers unnecesarily when
installing/updating 

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.38

2009-09-20 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla (https://bugs.maemo.org/).
2009-09-14 through 2009-09-20

As of 2009-09-21 Extras contains 398 items (+11 this week),
including 207 open issues (-6 this week):
* 147 open bugs (-4 this week)
* 8 critical/blocker (-2 this week)
* 1 easyfix (no change this week)
* 1 moreinfo (no change this week)
* 0 crash (no change this week)
* 3 patch (no change this week)
* 0 reopened (no change this week)
* 66 unconfirmed (-2 this week)
* 60 open enhancements (-2 this week)
* 0 easyfix (no change this week)
* 0 moreinfo (no change this week)
* 0 patch (no change this week)
* 0 reopened (no change this week)
* 11 unconfirmed (-2 this week)

==--- New Items ---==

9 bugs were opened -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5141,5143,5149,5154,5157,5158,5162,5164,5165
):
* [5141] [PyMaemo] Documentation code examples in wrong order -
Writing Desktop Widgets Tutorial
* [5143] [PyMaemo] Unable to use hildon.Button in desktop widget --
cannot register existing type HildonButtonArrangement
* [5149] [Qt] QDialog can't be executed twice
* [5154] [PyMaemo] Update gtk.Dialog for maemo changes
* [5157] [PyMaemo] Please provide Python bindings for libhildonmime
* [5158] [Mauku] Pressing Contacs shows the timeline for the first contact
* [5162] [gPodder] Use escape consistently for pop-up windows
* [5164] [PyMaemo] Website SDK Installation doc error: it should be
apt-cache, not apt-get cache
* [5165] [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found

0 bugs were critical/blocker.

2 enhancements were opened -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5146,5160 ):
* [5146] [Mauku] Make the options selectable by clicking in the
element instead of using the edit button
* [5160] [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly


==--- Resolved Bugs ---==

6 bugs were resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4245,4759,4925,4985,4990,5064 ):
* [4245] [PyGTKEditor] hardcoded /home/user  directory
* [4759] [Qt] Toolbar icons are too small
* [4925] [Qt] Effects labels are shrinked and partially visible in QFontDialogs
* [4985] [Qt] Special characters view not opened with Qt apps
* [4990] [Xournal] Crash when choosing Color from the toolbar
* [5064] [Maemo Periodic] Two-line entries in Properties: Second
line starts one letter too early

2 bugs were resolved invalid -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4972,5165 ):
* [4972] [PyGTKEditor] Unable to install pygtkeditor: python2.5-osso missing
* [5165] [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found

2 bugs were resolved wontfix -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4937,4991 ):
* [4937] [Qt] Addressbook example application freezes
* [4991] [Xournal] Help... entry in menubar does nothing

1 bug was resolved duplicate -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5096 ):
* [5096] [PyMaemo] Missing function hildon_gtk_window_set_portrait_flags

2 bugs were resolved worksforme -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4899,5027 ):
* [4899] [Qt] ARMEL dependency errors
* [5027] [PyMaemo] hildon.Touchselector() Doesn't Scroll When Added to
A Regular gtk.Diallog()

0 bugs were resolved moved.


==--- Resolved Enhancements ---==

4 enhancements were resolved fixed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4988,4989,5121,5160 ):
* [4988] [Xournal] Installing: Xournal release notes screen suboptimal
* [4989] [Xournal] Very crowded toolbar
* [5121] [Maemo Periodic] XB-Maemo-Display-Name not used in debian/control
* [5160] [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly

0 enhancements were resolved invalid.

0 enhancements were resolved wontfix.

0 enhancements were resolved duplicate.

0 enhancements were resolved worksforme.

0 enhancements were resolved moved.


==--- Confirmed Items ---==

1 bug was confirmed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5165 ):
* [5165] [PasswordSafe] file found, password requested, then file not found

2 enhancements were confirmed -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5085,5087 ):
* [5085] [OmWeather] Option to enter Station country name instead of
scrolling only
* [5087] [OmWeather] Not available for this country instead of empty
Selecting station list


==--- Reopened Items ---==

0 bugs were reopened.

1 enhancement was reopened -
( https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=5160 ):
* [5160] [PasswordSafe] Edit/View Entry dialog should be more finger-friendly


==--- Unloved Items ---==

43 bugs were needing love -
( 
https://bugs.maemo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=4906,5015,5102,5141,5143,4805,4895,4251,4307,4390,4416,4516,4532,5036,5038,5069,5071,5072,4005,4094,4381,4550,4610,4611,4612,4681,4878,4756,4761,4762,4890,5090,3974,4494,4521,4844,5162,4932,5091,4377,4155,5164,4838
):
* [4906] [gPodder] getpass error with password protected podcast
* [5015] [PyMaemo] get_items function not present in