Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Neary
their commercial products. But control comes in many forms. Just employing a maintainer doesn't imply control (just ask Josh Berkus or Linus Torvalds) nor does it imply that significant community contributions are unwelcome. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Diablo, do we need a separate repository?

2008-05-06 Thread Dave Neary
(= 2.15.5) Package: xplanet Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.15.0) Package: xsane Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.14.0) Package: xulrunner-1.9 Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.16.0) Package: yelp Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.16.0) Package: zenity Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.16.0) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary

Who's who in maemo

2008-05-07 Thread Dave Neary
started and see how far I get? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Who's who in maemo

2008-05-07 Thread Dave Neary
started using my personal address purely because I feel that people should earn things like a .org email address. If there's a process I can go through to get approval, I'd be happy to do that. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

2008-05-07 Thread Dave Neary
behind the issues ;) and I'll get started on a wiki page? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Cataloging active discussion lists

2008-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Let's do something together in LinuxTag

2008-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Mancke wrote: Sorry, I could not attend. If there were substantial decisions made, could someone please summarize them and add them to the Linuxtag2008 wiki page? It was a QA session, mostly - any questions that Quim didn't/couldn't answer will be going on a list that

Minutes of maemo web monthly meeting, 13/5/2008

2008-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Gil - Nokia * Marcell Lengyel - Nokia * Eero af Heurlin - Nemein * Emilia Hjelm - Nemein * Janne Antola - Nemein * Andre Klapper - Openismus * Karsten Bräckelmann - Openismus * Niels Breet * Dave Neary ## Agenda: * Introductions * Review of status of April sprint actions * Review of proposals

Re: Minutes of maemo web monthly meeting, 13/5/2008

2008-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

First version, Questions for Nokia

2008-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
missed a question, please shout. Or better still, add it to the wiki page. I (or Quim?) will update the page with the answers when we get them. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo

Re: LinuxTag ticket?

2008-05-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Simon Pickering wrote: Just a quick question. Do presenters need to buy a ticket or do they get in free as they are presenting? I'm not bothered either way but would like to know so I can get one in advance and get the discount. I have the same question - should I take care of a ticket,

Re: Does Debian OpenSSL problem affect Maemo ?

2008-05-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andrew Daviel wrote: Who says reading the comics is a waste of time ? http://xkcd.com/424/ - google debian openssl security - http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/ etc. suggesting that any certificates or SSH keys generated on a Debian system in the last 2

Re: n800 serial

2008-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Very cool :) Thanks for the photos. Dave. Kees Jongenburger wrote: Hello This week-end I found out where the serial pins of the n800 are located and added that information to the wiki http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowTo_KernelCompilation/ I had a LOT of fun finding out and creating a

Re: n800 serial

2008-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia niedziela, 18 maja 2008, Kees Jongenburger napisał: This week-end I found out where the serial pins of the n800 are located and added that information to the wiki http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowTo_KernelCompilation/ I wonder when Maemo.org wiki will

Re: n800 serial

2008-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Does Maemo wiki team created any structure for Wiki? Or for started-but-closed-for-people Mediawiki based one [1]? If not then changing one entry does not make sense as there still will be no way to easily find needed documentation. Reorganising the wiki is

Re: LinuxTag coverage

2008-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, What kind of coverage? I'd be happy to provide commentary on my web journal. I'll also have my camera and, if I can get it working, the video enabled camera application for my N810 ;) Cheers, Dave. Quim Gil wrote: Just a small tiny fraction of the maemo community will meet at LinuxTag

Re: OpenSSH vulnerability and maemo extras upload accounts.

2008-05-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Olle, olle wrote: No. If your key was generated before the bug was introduced, it is most definately not affected. You could potentially still have a problem if you use your (non predictable) key with a signature scheme like DSA that needs randomness, though. On a server, you have your

Re: maemo Bug Jar #5

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stephen Gadsby wrote: This summary was also posted to Internet Tablet Talk: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=184483#post184483 Additionally, I'll be adding this, and previous, Bug Jars--plus some related graphs--to the maemo wiki when I can. I'm continuing to

Re: maemo Bug Jar #7

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Josh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse my disbelief ... you guys are the strangest users I've ever met. Just wondering - what was the point of this mail? That people subscribed to maemo-developers using bugzilla aren't users? I'm just unclear how that's related to the bug jar, and

Re: policy: maemo packaging policy -draft

2008-06-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Allen Brown wrote: * Interactive prompts from maintainer scripts (such as asking where do you want to stick this new thing in your menus) are annoying for the user. I'd be inclined to add a sentence or two saying that these SHOULD be avoided where possible. Speaking as a user,

Re: maemo-mapper code

2008-06-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi there, jitender singh wrote: hey, can someone tell how maemo-mapper is indexing tiles, downloading tiles, and implementing panning/zooming. https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=29 See release 2.4.1 for 0S2008. In particular, the file src/maps.c might interest you. Cheers, Dave. --

Re: Portrait Maemo app

2008-06-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David Greaves wrote: Also, I've just written my first app in gtk/C. After sobbing quietly and trying to avoid getting tears on my N800 I'm looking forward to getting back to Qt!! Apologies to any gtk fans out there - I just have a hard time with all the pointer casting and trying to

Re: Portrait Maemo app

2008-06-12 Thread Dave Neary
to Maemo and making their early experience pleasant). I mentioned gtkmm (hopefully not a sensitive topic) a moment ago - what are peoples thoughts on that? Looks like that's what you need :) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Portrait Maemo app

2008-06-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David Greaves wrote: I mentioned gtkmm (hopefully not a sensitive topic) a moment ago - what are peoples thoughts on that? For reference, here's the same snippet in gtkmm: Gtk::Frame frame(Checkbox) Gtk::CheckButton check(aargh); check.set_active(TRUE); frame.add(check);

Re: maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council

2008-06-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Darius, Darius Jack wrote: Please visit Global Alliance on Open Source Software http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/globalalliance4u?hl=en to see how it works. I had a look at your site - very interesting. Global Alliance on Open Source

Community council

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, So - the community council, then... what do people think of the idea? What should the remit be? I agree with the poster who said that monthly or quarterly election would be too frequent. All depends on how onerous the voting process will be, I suppose. Proposals to go here:

Re: Getting, adding, removing, etc... bookmarks

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Adding this to http://wiki.maemo.org/Questions_for_Nokia Cheers, Dave. Iñigo Illán Aranburu wrote: I was trying to access programatically to the bookmarks on the N810 when I just get shocked when I've seen this http://www.webwizardry.net/~timeless/10/licensing-overview.html. I have try

Re: Community council is a representative body - not community leadership (upate2)

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Can we please put an end to this thread? If anyone has any comments on the community council proposal, please comment on the thread I started yesterday. Thanks, Dave. Paul Bloch wrote: Found this, thought it was relevant. snip -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:

Re: Garage Misconfiguration?

2008-06-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I got two. As the sender of the message, I can confirm I only sent it once (at around 13h30 CEST). Perhaps, since it took so long to actually get delivered, someone resent it a couple of times? Cheers, Dave. Andrew Barr wrote: Is anyone else being spammed by garage.maemo.org with the

Announcing the wiki page a day

2008-06-30 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I recently migrated a bunch of content from the old maemo wiki to the new wiki, but apart from some minor clean-ups, I didn't revisit the content at all. We now need to clean up that content, bring it up to date, and imporve the general standards. That means: * If there are 3 ways to do

Wiki page of the day: USB networking and USB networking with Debian

2008-07-01 Thread Dave Neary
Morning all, I obviously underestimated the insatiable desire of the maemo.org community! Root access is done dusted, in no time at all. Many thanks to all those who contributed their time to improve the article. So today, we have a twofer - two articles which should in all likelihood be

Re: Wiki page of the day: USB networking and USB networking with Debian

2008-07-01 Thread Dave Neary
, These pages look good, just a quick query about them. The USB with Debian uses IP address 192.168.2.1 and 2, but the USB networking page talks about 192.168.2.14 and 15. Should these use the same IP addresses? Ian - Original Message From: Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: maemo-developers

Re: Wiki page of the day: USB networking and USB networking with Debian

2008-07-01 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ian Key wrote: Thanks for the reply Dave. I was pointing out the inconsistencies in the web pages - I do know a bit about USB networking, use it every day for testing. In actual fact, you can use any legitimate private network class addresses. It just seems that 192.168.2.1 / 2 and

Wiki page of the day: USB networking, USB Networking on Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, It seems that the discussion on Root access took so much time, that no-one got around to updating USB networking yesterday - so I propose that we keep it as the wiki page of the day again today. I will contribute to that debate at some stage, but for reference: - I have no problem

Re: Has maemo-pc-connectivity been substituted by USB Networking applet (in control panel)?

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Neary
Speaking of USB networking... Anyone have any improvements to suggest for the wiki page on the subject? https://wiki.maemo.org/USB_networking Cheers, Dave. Marcio Macedo wrote: Hi, maemo-pc-connectivity is only a meta-package that install a series of connectivity-related packages. The old

Re: Has maemo-pc-connectivity been substituted by USB Networking applet (in control panel)?

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Glauber Ferreira wrote: Hi Dave. Is the same information for N800 valid for N810? Should these [1] instructions about configuration and test of USB networking be added/merged to this maemo wiki page? These instructions consider that the user has installed the meta-package

NEW! Wiki Page of the Day: Booting from MMC card

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I cleaned up the USB networking page pretty well, I think (feedback appreciated: http://wiki.maemo.org/USB_networking), and we now have an ALL NEW Wiki Page of the Day for the weekend (or for a couple of hours, if someone cleans it up quickly): Booting from MMC card

Re: 770 info in wiki Re: Has maemo-pc-connectivity been substituted by USB Networking applet (in control panel)?

2008-07-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Dave Neary wrote: Information for older OSes or for the 770, should be (IMHO) a footnote at lest, or a reference to an archived page which doesn't show up when browsing the wiki normally. Well, I would not be surprised to hear such opinion from @nokia.com but I

Re: 770 info in wiki Re: Has maemo-pc-connectivity been substituted by USB Networking applet (in control panel)?

2008-07-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Neil Jerram wrote: But the rest is arbitrary. I see no need for separate pages, only clear section headings within the page. Long pages full of technical information (most of which is not useful to the reader) are intimidating, and give the impression of needing to be an expert to achieve

Wiki page of the Day: Video encoding

2008-07-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, This is the last time I'll be cross-posting WPotD announcements - from now on I'll use the new [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for WPotD updates, and I invite any of you interested in community processes, the wiki or the development of the website to join that list. Thank you very much for the

Re: Wiki page of the Day: Video encoding

2008-07-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Chris Lord wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:05 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: The WPotD for today is Video encoding http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding - an article which, it seems to me, is in dire need of reduction. From my own experience, the page should be an instruction manual

Wiki page of the Day: Integrate Bluetooth networks into Connection Manager

2008-07-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Another user-oriented Page of the Day this time (with the devel list CCed, as per a suggestion on the community list): how to integrate Bluetooth networks into the connection manager. In fact, I think that this page could be integrated into Bluetooth networking and deleted... anyone

Re: Porting a C program in Maemo

2008-07-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Queen wrote: Do you have any hints, on how on earth is this possible? I've read the whole tutorial (and a bunch of other tutorials on deploying and porting applications), searched everything, tried my ass off, and nothing. All i managed to do is to print hello on Maemo , while the Hail

Re: How can I unlock the USB port?

2008-07-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, It looks like you didn't get an answer to this... Andrea Grandi wrote: Hi all, I want to use USB Networking but when I launch it in Control Panel it says that USB port is already in use. I've no cable connected to it... so what's wrong? how can I unlock it? Have you tried following

Re: Newbie questions

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote: I want to develop a mobile IPTV application, so I need a mobile platform to do it on. After considering Android and Moblin I got into Maemo and I would like to know which advantages offers over the other options. Actually, moblin and Maemo are very

Re: Dangling link to bora SDK

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Neary
I'm on it. Dave. Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Montag, 28. Juli 2008 18:00 schrieb Daniel Martin Yerga: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:50:32 +0200 Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, on http://maemo.org/development/sdks/ the link to the Bora SDK points to a page

Re: Dangling link to bora SDK

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on http://maemo.org/development/sdks/ the link to the Bora SDK points to a page http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo-3-x--bora-.html which does not exist. The right link is here: http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_3-x_bora/ This should be

Re: Newbie questions

2008-07-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote: Yes, I knew this, but Moblin needs from Ubuntu Mobile Edition and viceversa and Maemo seems to be a more global independent platform in this sense, doesn't it? I'm not sure what you mean by more independent. Moblin targets Ubuntu Mobile among other

Re: hildon-libs

2008-07-31 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Zhenghe Zhang wrote: Now I study the hildon-libs,because there are some errors when I  build the source package(hildon-libs-0.14.11),there is not “Makefile.in” in the “hildon-widgets”.I want to know the reason,could you tell me? Also,I would like to know the version of

Re: Wiki page of the Day, how users find them once they're ready?

2008-08-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Ryan Abel wrote: Could something like for information on ITOS 2007 and newer, see the new wiki at wiki.maemo.org be automatically added to the beginning of each of the old wiki pages? This is a good plan, there was some discussion around it a while ago, but I don't know what the

Re: On the problem of Nokia bugs substituting changelogs

2008-09-02 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I hope this doesn't get taken too badly... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Modest development team is very busy with feature development and bug fixes, and admittedly, after that there's not s much time left for interacting with the community. That's a sad fact. The problem I have

Ooops!

2008-09-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, Yesterday evening, on popular request, I committed a patch to the elections scripts to add a link to candidate declarations at the top of Step 2 of the voting process. The voting site was updated this morning by Henri. Alas! I didn't properly test the change before committing, and

Re: Remove Darius?

2008-09-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, David Greaves wrote: As a member of this list I am finding Darius' postings unacceptable for a -developer list. If he continues to post in this manner I would support his removal. Anyone else or is it just me? I have a great idea for reducing the noise on the developers list caused

Re: [Make.am issue]Sofia throuwing Error message

2008-09-08 Thread Dave Neary
Neil Jerram wrote: t-i being undefined? Give that man a cookie :) Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Provisional results of the Maemo Community Council elections

2008-09-11 Thread Dave Neary
will therefore be: Eduardo Lima (etrunko) Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles) Simon Pickering (lardman) Tim Samoff (timsamoff) Good luck to them all, and I'm looking forward to meeting them next week at the Maemo Summit. On behalf of the Maemo community, Dave Neary. -- maemo.org docsmaster

Re: Is there a roadmap for opening of binary blobs of N8x0 hardware ?

2008-09-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Kevin, Kevin Verma wrote: I read the recent announcement of stlc45xx which still requires a binary tool for its calibration data. But there are other components like battery, 3D etc. Can someone please guide me where are more 'official' details for opening of binary blobs or N8x0 hardware

Re: how to check out maemo-examples

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, There are similar examples in the maemoexamples garage project: svn checkout https://garage.maemo.org/svn/maemoexamples And svn co https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/tools/trunk/maemo_testing/maemo-examples works for the maemo_testing project. Cheers, Dave. Mrukant Popat wrote:

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: I am not sure where this list should be, but I suppose maemo wiki could be a good place: http://wiki.maemo.org/Projects_Nokia_should_support In fact the place decided was http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Remarkable_community_projects#Proposals_for_Fremantle_Stars It was

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: Should we send an email through the garage interface (just once) :) I'd be happy to send a mail - what would you like me to put in it? Essentially what you put in your blog post? Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Frantisek Dufka wrote: Quim Gil wrote: I'm a bit surprised about the little discussion generated by our call to support cool projects. Was the call so casual that it ended up being unclear? Well, to me it is a bit unclear how Nokia could help to specific projects. The same comment

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: ext Dave Neary wrote: It's a little unclear whether it's targeting volunteer developers working on this in their spare time who might be interested in making a living on it, or companies who are working on free software, or volunteers who just want a hand, but are very

Re: [LWN] Embedded Linux and the community

2008-11-13 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Eero, Eero Tamminen wrote: ext Dave Neary wrote: It's funny, though (and a mark of the success of Nokia's efforts) that he considers Maemo to be a community project, when the package in question, the kernel, is almost exclusively worked on within Nokia for the Maemo platform. If you

Re: Contribution guidelines

2008-11-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Quim, They look good to me - simple, clear, reasonable. It bears the question, though - why are these even needed? What is the problem that they solve? I'm not playing Devil's advocate here - I am just wondering what the reasoning is. Cheers, Dave. Quim Gil wrote: Developers, please have

Re: How can I change the background color of a GtkButton when it is activated

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Yao, Yao Wang wrote: The default color when I pressed down the button is blue. I want to change the background color of button when it is pressed and recover its origin background color when it is released. The default colour for when the button is pressed is set by the GTK+ theme.

Re: Planet Maemo news from 01/01/1970

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I have seen recently many news from 01/01/1970 in the planet maemo RSS feed. Is that a problem with my reader (akregator) or do others see this as well? In recent days I have also seen items on Planet Maemo get syndicated many times into the feed. Is that the same

Re: GTK Modifications

2008-11-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, works fine for me... glade fine C file attached, compiled with gcc -ggdb -o gtk_test `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 libglade-2.0` gtk_test.c Cheers, Dave. Verena Mattern wrote: I have a problem modifying my gtk widgets. I know that you shouldn't hard-code colors, but my boss wants

Re: pygtk in maemo?

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jong-beom Kim wrote: Error says ‘gtk.gdk.Color’ object has no attribute ‘to_string’. However, as you may see on pygtk docs, gtk.gdk.Color does have to_string method for string representation. (again, it works well in laptop without any error) What is the problem with that? Is there

Re: maemo-developers Digest, Vol 44, Issue 23

2008-12-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, dongmei zhou wrote: I don't know whether webkit is surpported on maemo well. Is there any application is developed on webkit. Any material would be appreciated.:) These are 2 of the first four links I get with a webkit maemo search on Google:

Qt to be available under the terms of the LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I'm surprised that news of this hasn't stirred up a storm around here yet - I just heard that QT 4.5 will be released under LGPL, as well as the existing licences: http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt This means that when downloading QT you'll now be able

Re: Screen orientation

2009-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Bob Murphy at ACCESS has been doing a lot of work on integrating screen orientation and accelerometers for the GNOME stack - I don't suppose anyone's had a look at his work here, have they? Cheers, Dave. gary liquid wrote: the answer to the identification problem is by querying the xrandr

Re: Maemo on Google Summer of Code 09 - Help needed

2009-02-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I just wanted to say that GSoC is a great opportunity for students to spend some quality time working on a project they like, and try out some funky ideas. For Maemo, we might not get accepted because of the corporate sponsorship of Nokia (this was something of an issue last year for

Re: How to create a BMP image using c or python

2009-02-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, You could use ImageMagick: https://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/imagemagick/ Cheers, Dave. dongmei zhou wrote: hi All, I know that Jpeg image can be created with Gstreamer , while how to create a BMP format image by c or python? Any help would be appreciated, thanks in

Re: Gsoc 2009: Barcode Scanner

2009-03-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Valerio Valerio wrote: hacky binary here: http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/nokia770/maemo-barcode/ The idea here, is use maemo-barcode as a base for a possible GSoC project, as mentioned in the wiki page[1]. Thank Simon for sharing your thoughts and ideas with us. [1] -

Elections - vote soon!

2009-03-17 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I've permitted myself a cross-post since I know many of the people elligible to vote in the Maemo community elections that are on now are not on the community list, where these things get discussed. The Maemo Community Council elections for Spring 2009 will finish at 23:59 UTC Thursday

Re: maemo reference manual

2009-04-01 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, You mean aside from File-Print? You might try lulu on-demand publishing: http://www.lulu.com - you upload the PDF and receive a printed bound copy, you specify paper quality other parameters to adjust the price. Printing one copy will probably be expensive, though. Cheers, Dave. Luo Cheng

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On May 2, 2009, at 16:11, Glen Ditchfield wrote: If packages don't have to have bug trackers, then QA will have to build some infrastructure to keep track of positive and negative votes, and the packager's comments on the negative votes, and declarations that the

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andre Klapper wrote: However packaging is not a product, but one aspect of a product, so I'd prefer to see bug reports filed against the specific product. In general products should (must?) have a bugtracker - otherwise I consider the developers/maintainers to not be interested in user

Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

2009-05-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Graham Cobb wrote: On Thursday 14 May 2009 11:25:32 Claudio Saavedra wrote: Just for the record, the hildon library team has moved the hildon code to garage, and we created there a mailing list for this kind of questions and to get some feedback. You can find it in

Re: Publishing developer documentation (was Re: The role of the docmaster)

2009-06-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: First of all, let's remember the defined goals: http://wiki.maemo.org/Objective:Co-production_of_official_%26_community_documentation One of the issues I've had is separating goals and means to attaining those goals. Co-production of documentation of documentation is

Re: closed tools, Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

2009-07-02 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Faheem Pervez wrote: You sure you have a choice in the matter? Considering how you're already violating the GPL. I don't know the details of the situation. I just want to remind you that the GPL is a distribution licence. That's why we don't get all Google's changes to the Linux kernel and

Re: Commenting and doc annotation

2009-09-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, The reference manual is now almost all in the wiki: http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide This is the ultimate collaborative editing system - you can add comments, comment or discuss pages on the Talk: page, and even modify the documentation live. Do we need more?

Re: The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-04 Thread Dave Neary
to Autobuilder/Scratchbox) rather than be a separate entity. -- baloo 13:32, 26 August 2009 I agree with Jamie's suggestion. -- Valério Valério 17:48, 26 August 2009 Me too. No to this as stand-alone. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 So we do like the idea of you presenting DVCS tools, but feel

Re: [Qt4Maemo-devel] The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

2009-09-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I'm woming into the discussion late, I've taken this as a proper request for BOF space, and have assigned some in the schedule. If you only need half an hour, or if you haven't decided whether to ask for space yet, let me know. In any case, it's a big site, and the principle of BOFs is grab

Re: Opt Bof?

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marius Vollmer wrote: Ok, let's do that then. (Do we need to register the BoF ahead of time?) That all depends - if you want the BOF to be on the schedule and have a room you can use, then yes. If you want to gather key people during the conference and pull a few chairs together, then no.

Re: Opt Bof?

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Marius Vollmer wrote: Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com writes: ext Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org writes: Hi, Marius Vollmer wrote: Ok, let's do that then. (Do we need to register the BoF ahead of time?) That all depends - if you want the BOF to be on the schedule and have

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-15 Thread Dave Neary
Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ryan Abel rabe...@gmail.com wrote: So qwerty12 compiled a patched xev, I grabbed keycodes and I spent a couple hours trying to convince the device that it'd be a really great idea for shift-fn-b to send a pipe, for fn-right arrow to

Does Uploading to Extras need updating for Fremantle?

2009-10-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, I'm wondering if http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras needs updating in the context of http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing and http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras after the Maemo 5 release - I'm afraid I don't have teh smarts to be able to tell. Could someone who has experience using

Re: Strange message from autobuilder: ERROR running /etc/buildme.d/setup_build

2009-11-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, ds wrote: [2009-11-04 16:35:01] Processing package vncviewer 0.6.3-fremantle3. Uploader: dschmicker, builder: builder1 [2009-11-04 16:35:21] ERROR running /etc/buildme.d/setup_build: We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down

Re: Looking for a tag cloud widget (like the one in Edit tags)

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Thomas, Thomas Perl wrote: I need a widget that can display a tag cloud out of a list of items that I provide (with different font sizes depending on a weight associated with each item). In Fremantle, the Images and Camera apps have such a tag cloud (the dialog is called Edit tags), but I

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: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Edward Page wrote: To help remind people that there is a checklist and whats on it, should the rating page link to or include the criteria? I see there were no notes on the algorithm. A threshold of 10 was annoying as a developer. As a tester, a threshold of 10 made me feel more

Re: maemo-release

2009-11-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: We are asking the renaming of pure end user apps called Maemo Something in order to avoid confusion of what is official and what is not. Just to be clear, when you say what is official, what do you mean? Is this applications shipped with the device by default? Or

Re: How to get n900 IMEI code in C

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Graham Cobb wrote: I have asked Nokia and they are not willing to release the documentation for the CSD services. Their reasons include supportability (the interfaces may change) and that they are trying to push oFono as the right long term solution (although it isn't here yet). I've

Documentation hackfest in Barcelona

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Neary
[reposted from maemo-community - please excuse the double posting for those people subscribed to both] Hi all, We're planning a documentation hackefest in Barcelona as part of the Barcelona weekend in December (2.5 short weeks away), and you are all active in community documentation efforts (or

Re: independent home screen

2009-11-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Wang Baisheng wrote: I want to use an independent home screen which has its own process, not contained in the hildon-desktop. And now I have a desktop implemented by gtk, but the hildon-desktop will cover it. What exactly is your question, please? You would like to know how to launch

Re: Updating the info for Extras-devel non-free

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: Hi, the information to upload binary-only packages to extras-devel is out of date: http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras-devel#.22non-free.22_packages Yet there are several non-free packages in extras-devel extras-testing / Extras. Can someone please update the

Re: Updating the info for Extras-devel non-free

2009-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, I know I'm not the only one confused here... Quim says: We are seeing more questions about this and actually the current information is misleading since it suggests that non-free packages can bypass the Extras-testing QA process, which is not true. And Jeremiah says: Here is the

Re: Qt or GTK+ which is better for developement

2009-12-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Abdul Mateen wrote: I am a newbie for maemo , having extensive experience developing for Android platform, I want to ask here, should I start with Qt ? or GTK+ or they will have the same impact, is there any difference in between the two considered with maemo development, officially GTK+

Re: Developers Guide

2009-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Keywan, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote: is there beside the Wike a Maemo 5 Developer Guide? http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide A lot of pages are still empty in this guide Which pages are empty, specifically? The goal is to have the developer documentation in

[Fwd: Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)]

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, At FOSDEM, Maemo will be engaged with four different dev-rooms: the Mobile dev-room, the distros mini-conf, the GNOME dev-room and the KDE dev-room. This year again there are plans for freedesktop.org talks in the GNOME dev-room. Can anyone interested in submitting a Maemo/Mer related

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