Re: [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

2006-01-11 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mardi 10 janvier 2006 à 23:00 -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri a écrit : On 1/10/06, Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:37:25AM -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: To make an input window work in maemo env ( this is different to defualt mb input win

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On 1/10/06, Devesh Kothari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently looking for what developer requirements would be from such an Alarm/Notifier interface. Specially lot of developers working on applications which need to schedule events and notifications like PIM aplications need this

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Florian Boor
Hello! Devesh Kothari wrote: I am currently looking for what developer requirements would be from such an Alarm/Notifier interface. Specially lot of developers working on applications which need to schedule events and notifications like PIM aplications need this functionality, and it is just

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:00, ext Florian Boor wrote: Hello! Devesh Kothari wrote: I am currently looking for what developer requirements would be from such an Alarm/Notifier interface. Specially lot of developers working on applications which need to schedule events and notifications

Re: [maemo-developers] dpkg blues

2006-01-11 Thread Janne Kataja
Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: Can someone explain to me why I get this error? failed to chroot to `/var/lib/install' Application installer packages are installed under alternative root /var/lib/install . On the device, try calling app-installer-tool with sudo. Does it install with

[maemo-developers] OSSO-modified DBus v0.60 available

2006-01-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
Hello, https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/dbus/ Old one was moved to: https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/maemo-branches/IT-2005/trunk/dbus/ BR, Kimmo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

[maemo-developers] Perl on the Nokia 770

2006-01-11 Thread Xavier Calbet
I was willing to run perl on the Nokia 770, in fact my objective is to run PDL (pdl.perl.org) on it, if the hardware permits. The reason for this is that it would turn the Nokia770 into a powerful caculator, numerical computation machine. I was going to compile perl on the maemo platform when

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Florian Boor
Hi, HimKimmo Hämäläinen wrote: Doesn't Glib has this kind of functionality already? you can have recurring events with glib, yes... but that involves that you have the application running all the time. In combination with the fact that you can't have custom software packages starting up some

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
Hi, On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:12, ext Florian Boor wrote: Hi, HimKimmo Hämäläinen wrote: Doesn't Glib has this kind of functionality already? you can have recurring events with glib, yes... but that involves that you have the application running all the time. In combination with

[maemo-developers] GPE PIM applications for Maemo progress

2006-01-11 Thread Florian Boor
Hi all, we just updated binary packages and sources for the Maemo port of the GPE PIM applications. Binary packages and sources are available from http://oss.kernelconcepts.de. All sources can be found in GPE CVS at handhelds.org too. If you are interested what is going on check out

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 11/01/06, Kimmo Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it will sleep most of the time and poll once in a minute (according to man page). Polling once a minute is much too often, though! The daemon (even if it's crond) should get told, possibly over DBUS, when a scheduled event is

[maemo-developers] /usr/sbin/gainroot fails

2006-01-11 Thread Vladislav Grinchenko
hi, I switch 770 to RD mode with --enable-rd-mode, but executing gainroot from xterm fails with: $ /usr/sbin/gainroot chroot: cannot change root directory to /mnt/initfs: Operation not permitted any ideas? ___ maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Simon Budig
Kimmo Hämäläinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I guess the 'API' is crontab(1) + crontab(5). It has probably been tested in the course of time and proven good and stable. Uh, not if you have potentially multiple programs simultaneously modifying the crontab. One faulty program could mess up your

Re: [maemo-developers] /usr/sbin/gainroot fails

2006-01-11 Thread Kalle Vahlman
On 1/11/06, Vladislav Grinchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I switch 770 to RD mode with --enable-rd-mode, but executing gainroot from xterm fails with: $ /usr/sbin/gainroot chroot: cannot change root directory to /mnt/initfs: Operation not permitted Try $ sudo

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:50, ext Simon Budig wrote: Kimmo Hämäläinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I guess the 'API' is crontab(1) + crontab(5). It has probably been tested in the course of time and proven good and stable. Uh, not if you have potentially multiple programs simultaneously

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Ralph Giles
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:33:41PM +0200, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: You'd have to hack a lot around crontab to enable all this and I doubt that would be significantly less error prone than implementing that stuff e.g. in the Desktop application or a new demon specific to that task. What

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:40, ext Ralph Giles wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:33:41PM +0200, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: You'd have to hack a lot around crontab to enable all this and I doubt that would be significantly less error prone than implementing that stuff e.g. in the Desktop

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Simon Budig
Kimmo Hämäläinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We have also other places where multiple simultaneous programs would screw things. Usually this can be avoided by the fact that the user can only use one application at a time. Oh right. Our System is broken anyway, so lets add more broken stuff.

[maemo-developers] pushing x11

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Arrasmith
Kind of off topic ... There are wireless presentation type devices for Windows (like the linksys WPG54G). Does anyone know of something similar for Linux X11? Basically, are there any vnc or nomachine or X11 'pushers'? What I'm thinking about is were you have a linux box hooked up to the

RE: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Jason Mills
A few items: 0) The RTC subsystem is served off a chip known as Retu. Most of the ASICs on the Nokia 770 board seem to have nice nordic names to them. :-) 1) The RTC subsystem only supports one future alarm event, and that event may not be more than 24h59m from now. Maximum alarm granularity is

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On 1/11/06, Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/01/06, Kimmo Hämäläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it will sleep most of the time and poll once in a minute (according to man page). Polling once a minute is much too often, though! The daemon (even if it's crond) should get