Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 20:58 +0100, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: ... Yes, but the question is not only about hacking, it is about end users. Can end users somehow get such system (not called 2007) so developers can ship one application (with Bora functionality) that work both on such N770 and

Re: [maemo-developers] Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-10 Thread Kate Alhola
Did a SIR transmitter make in into the N800? I have a Phillips RC9800i remote control and I would like to replace it with my N770 or a N800. http://www.hometheatermag.com/accessories/0406philips/ I've been looking around for a IR transmitter/receiver in the form of a USB dongle and can't

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Urho Konttori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could this be part of the .install file? One debian for 770 and one for N800. Yes, a .install file can specify individual repositories for different IT OS releases. It could look like this (untested): [install] repo_name = maemo Extras

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: Even without any OS update for N770, you could do an application that works both in N770 and N800, if you avoid using some API. I think most N770 applications worked with small or non-existent changes in N800. (You just have to compile it in N770 SDK and test it in N800,

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:09 +0100, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: Even without any OS update for N770, you could do an application that works both in N770 and N800, if you avoid using some API. I think most N770 applications worked with small or non-existent changes in

Re: [maemo-developers] [maemo-announce] Nokia Developer Device Program

2007-01-10 Thread Komal Shah
On 1/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That will not be the case. Having participated in the 770 developer program is neither a precondition nor an impediment for the N800 developer program. Nokia will invite developers based on their Maemo/770 related activities. And,

Re: [maemo-developers] Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jan 10 02:58:24 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: The other trouble with using radio is the you have to tell the remote which room it is in. IR doesn't travel between rooms. If you carry an IR remote to another room, it won't still control the TV in the first room. You could use a GPS receiver

Re: [maemo-developers] N800 Developer Programme Application

2007-01-10 Thread Eloi Crespillo Itchart
El Martes, 9 de Enero de 2007 21:54, Daniel Stone escribió: The developer device program is not done with an application, as with the 770's, but instead you will be contacted if you've been selected. Mmmmh... Perhaps somebody should edit the developer program announce at

Re: [maemo-developers] Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-10 Thread Kees Jongenburger
You could use a GPS receiver to sort that out, then have your music follow you about the house. I guess it is cheaper and does not require you to carry a gps receiver to have a few wifi spots or bt receivers and measure the signal strength on the wifi spot/bt reciever. Dave. (Now scared

[maemo-developers] Developer Device Program Application

2007-01-10 Thread Jaime Frutos Morales
Hi, I'm Jaime Frutos Morales, a Systems Engineer from Madrid, Spain and I'm looking forward to being part of the Developer Device Program. I have some Open Source Software experience as a programmer, mainly with the GTK+ toolkit (C++ and Python bindings too) and Gnome/FreeDesktop technologies. I

[maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-users] Battery Benchmarking?

2007-01-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Igor Stoppa wrote: As Amit wrote, when you move to 3rd party applications it's very likely that one of those is buggy and does not behave properly (i.e. drains the battery while doing nothing). Process should not be doing anything (except sit in select() without timeouts) when it's

[maemo-developers] Re: N800 Developer Programme Application

2007-01-10 Thread rael
Hello! Mmmmh... Perhaps somebody should edit the developer program announce at http://maemo.org/#date_07012007a , or add another entry to explain that this time the developers will be chosen and there is no need to apply as with the 770 developer program. Otherwise, we will have a very

Re: [maemo-developers] Using the N770/N800 as a remote control.

2007-01-10 Thread klaus
Am 9 Jan 2007 um 21:52 hat Jon Smirl geschrieben: Is it no power at all, or just not very much power? With no power you No power. Rumors said, that it is because there is nowehere inside the N770 +5 Volt, the device runs with 3.3 V or less. Since I don't have the schematics, I can't prove

[maemo-developers] Developer Device Program Application

2007-01-10 Thread Jose Antonio Vico Palomino
Hello, I'm Jose Antonio Vico Palomino, a Consultant and systems engineer from Madrid, Spain. It wanted to comprise of the DEveloper Device Program. I have thought to carry some applications for the new N800 and as well for the N770 which I have at the moment. It is necessary to me to have this

[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Alp Toker
Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: hi all, i've packaged gpe-mini-browser for maemo. you can find the packages in http://bencer.cauterized.net/nokia770/ *warning*: there are very very dirty and quick packages. this weekend i'll have much cleaner and well done packages in a repository. i'll try to

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Alp Toker wrote: A few weeks back I updated the WebKit Gdk port from Apple's SVN. With some days hacking it was rendering pages, and was easily cross-compiled to the 770: http://www.ndesk.org/tmp/WebKit-Gdk-Nokia770.jpg It is a bit of work and you need to know your way around Gtk+/gdk, but

[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 14:01, Alp Toker wrote: Why distribute a browser engine that is practically unchanged since 2004? You lose out on almost three years of performance, compatibility and security updates. gtk-webcore last svn commit was 12 days ago:

[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Alp Toker
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Alp Toker wrote: A few weeks back I updated the WebKit Gdk port from Apple's SVN. With some days hacking it was rendering pages, and was easily cross-compiled to the 770: http://www.ndesk.org/tmp/WebKit-Gdk-Nokia770.jpg It is a bit of work and you need to know

[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Alp Toker
Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 14:01, Alp Toker wrote: Why distribute a browser engine that is practically unchanged since 2004? You lose out on almost three years of performance, compatibility and security updates. gtk-webcore last svn commit was 12 days ago:

Re:[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Philippe De Swert
Hello all, First of all a big thank you to Jorge for his willingness to package gpe-mini-browser for maemo. I didn't feel like jumping through all the hoops/problems to get the maemo SDK to work with a recent kernel (as I need it to use my RAID controller). Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: On

[maemo-developers] Re: gpe-mini-browser for maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Alp Toker
Philippe De Swert wrote: and well, this is the most usable *free* browser (might after minimo) ... I reviewed the commit you mentioned. It seems to be a compile fix necessary because nobody has attempted to compile the code for so long that modern compilers won't build it. That is correct.

[maemo-developers] Help on how to attach a non gtk+/hildon app to D-Bus

2007-01-10 Thread Tomas
Hello, We are trying to write a single C script, not a gtk+/hildon application, to listen for the connectivity DBUS signals. We are using the IC API as shown in the Maemo Connectivity Architecture document and we have managed to open and close WLan connections without problems. Things changed

[maemo-developers] Bora Repositories

2007-01-10 Thread Raul Fernandes Herbster
I tried to install package maemo-explicit as described at INSTALL.txt at Bora release page. However, this package seems to not exist. [sbox-SDK_X86: ~] fakeroot apt-get install maemo-explicit Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package maemo-explicit

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Ted Zlatanov
I think the 770/N800 break with OS support from ITOS2006 to ITOS2007 is reasonable. The 770 was a first-generation device, really the first of its kind. I hope the N800 doesn't get deprecated in the same way, and I hope Nokia at least considers giving some discount to people buying the N800 that

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Neuer
On 1/10/07, Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the 770/N800 break with OS support from ITOS2006 to ITOS2007 is reasonable. The 770 was a first-generation device, really the first of its kind. I hope the N800 doesn't get deprecated in the same way, and I hope Nokia at least considers

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Barr
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:30 -0500, Dave Neuer wrote: ... Well put, thanks. I agreed with every word. Andrew Dave ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On 10 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's amazing to me is that someone in charge at Nokia thinks that independant developers are going to flock to develop a market-creating software ecosystem for a $400-$500 half-open platform, especially in light of Apple's recent announcement of the

[maemo-developers] localization issue on maemo 3.0

2007-01-10 Thread Kimitake Abe
Hi, I just want to know whether or not Doing localization on maemo works. I created a new po file (ja.po) as tutorial above using maemopad_1.5, and installed to my X86 platform, and then execute maemopad as follow. LC_ALL=ja run-standalone.sh ./maemopad But it uses en_GB info instead of ja. I

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Christian F.K. Schaller
Hi, I think the two devices are rather different and not really competing directly that much against eachother. Also based on Apple's track record I think their openness will be much less than Nokia's in regards to this device. The whole Darwin joke hasn't exactly shown Apple to really give a

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Ian
Hi, An interesting thread about the iPhone arch http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003932.html []'s Ian -- .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- Orgulhoso ser MetaRecicleiro http://manaus.metareciclagem.org/

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Karall
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:45 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: I think the two devices are rather different and not really competing directly that much against eachother. Also based on Apple's track record I think their openness will be much less than Nokia's in regards to this device. The

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Álvaro J. Iradier
I am quite disappointed too. If 770 software would be fully open sourced, there would be no problem. But I feel like i've been cheated, and now I'm trapped with a device with unsupported software (opera, flash, etc.), and I guess main 770 developers will move to N800 attracted by the 99€ offer.

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Neuer
On 1/10/07, Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, obviously there will be 500 such developers now :) I just think it should have been 1500 happy users with $100 discounts instead of 500 happy developers with $300 discounts. Those 500 developers are going to create applications which

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Neuer
On 1/10/07, Christian F.K. Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think the two devices are rather different and not really competing directly that much against eachother. The prices are almost the same, and the iPhone will do everything the n880 will do out of the box, plus much more. Who

Re: [maemo-developers] Help on how to attach a non gtk+/hildon app to D-Bus

2007-01-10 Thread Tim Teulings
Hello! Is it possible to initialize our C application (non GTK+/Hildon app.) and attach it to D-Bus with libOSSO library? IMHO libOSSO is intermixed with Gtk so you must user Gtk somehow if you want libOSSO. Depending on your needs if might be enough to just initialize Gtk main event loop to

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Budig
Dave Neuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nokia was counting on the community to provide that level of functionality for them, but won't pay us w/ the only thing the open-source community cares about: code and documentation of hardware. Now that sounds as if you haven't watched very closely what

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Neuer
On 1/10/07, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that sounds as if you haven't watched very closely what happened the last year or so. Claiming that Nokia did not provide hardware and (more importantly) code is - in the best case - just uninformed. Yes, I missed the post to the mailing

Re: [maemo-developers] Help on how to attach a non gtk+/hildon app to D-Bus

2007-01-10 Thread Graham Cobb
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:33, Tomas wrote: Where can we get an exemple on how to write a little C script to listen D-Bus signals? Search the mailing list archives for any of dbus-monitor, dbus-s or dbus-scripts -- all three do what you need (and are variants of the same program). Do

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: N800 Developer Programme Application

2007-01-10 Thread Kai Schindelka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct. But since the selection criteria are quite unclear it looks like everybody fears that he might not be detected. Since I'm interested in participating, too, I would be happy to at least have some private Nokia email adress where I can write a short summery what

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Budig
Dave Neuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 1/10/07, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that sounds as if you haven't watched very closely what happened the last year or so. Claiming that Nokia did not provide hardware and (more importantly) code is - in the best case - just uninformed.

[maemo-developers] scratchbox2 progress

2007-01-10 Thread Lauri Leukkunen
Hello, I had a quite pleasant surprise today when I noticed that fakeroot just works with SB2. This means that it is possible that debian packaging tools could work. I'm not saying they do, and I can't test them myself, but anyone who has experience in working with them, and who is not afraid

[maemo-developers] Re: Garage Subversion problem

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
On 1/10/07, Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Commit and update both work fine, but adding new files doesn't work: 8 [snip] svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/mud-builder/trunk/packages/cmatrix.xml' svn: PROPFIND of

[maemo-developers] new developer to maemo

2007-01-10 Thread Jack Moffitt
Hi all, I just bought an N800 (after wanting a 770 for some time and then seeing the new one, I couldn't resist) and wanted to get started developing some stuff for it. I see that the new bora sdk has some python support. The docs say to download the Python runtime from maemo.org, but I can't

[maemo-developers] Bora repositories missing pkg-config?

2007-01-10 Thread Michel Salim
Hi, The developer rootfs and the repositories configured with its /etc/apt/sources.list do not have pkg-config; if I follow the recommended steps of doing 'fakeroot apt-get -f install', all the development packages that depend on pkg-config gets scheduled for removal. Am I supposed to add

[maemo-developers] Install development packages

2007-01-10 Thread Jean-Luc Biord
Hello, I want to port an existing gtk program to the 770. When I launch the ./configure script, some packages are required and are not present in rootstrap (i386 and armel). My 2 questions : 1. Who to install the needeed packages? On .deb (where is the good repository ?) or with tar file

RE: [maemo-developers] Re: N800 Developer Programme Application

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub.Pavelek
What's the point to announce such a program so late and with so little details? To irritate people? I would like to have my discount right now, if I'm eligible, so that I could buy the device right away, or to know that I'm not eligible so that I could plan $399 into my budget for gadgets. At

RE: [maemo-developers] localization issue on maemo 3.0

2007-01-10 Thread Jakub.Pavelek
Hi, This won't work - run-standalone.sh reads /etc/osso-af-init/locale and sets the language according to it. Br, --jakub -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext Kimitake Abe Sent: 10 January, 2007 20:44 To: maemo-developers@maemo.org

[maemo-developers] bounty program?

2007-01-10 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hello I have been looking at the responses to the Developer Program Application with great interests. It looks like people are ready to invest time in maemo if they get rewarded. I enjoy spending time developing but I would also be ready to pay bounties if some piece of software can be developed

Re: [maemo-developers] Install development packages

2007-01-10 Thread Diego Escalante
On 1/11/07, Jean-Luc Biord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to port an existing gtk program to the 770. When I launch the ./configure script, some packages are required and are not present in rootstrap (i386 and armel). Hi Jean-Luc My 2 questions : 1. Who to install the needeed