qt-components-blanco-theme in Extras-Devel is empty/missing files?

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, I'm currently looking into how well Qt Quick Components are supported on Fremantle. The package qt-quick-components installs fine and works, but without having a theme, the UI elements are not visible and do not work. Installing qt-components-blanco-theme should apparently fix this issue, but

Re: gpg-agent in scratchbox?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/10/2 Rainer Dorsch rdor...@web.de: when building my packages (navit), dpkg-buildpackage asks for my gpg passphrase. Outstide of scratchbox this is handled through gpg-agent, but inside scratchbox that does not seem to work. Do all package builders enter manually their passphrases,

Re: False missing dependencies in package view

2011-08-25 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/8/25 Oliver ohook...@gmail.com: I'm trying to promote one of my recently built packages: http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_armel/libhighgui-dev/2.0.0-5/ [...] Unfortunately this page lists missing dependencies. From what I can tell though,

gPodder 2.18 in Extras-Testing needs your votes + dependency problems

2011-08-20 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, gPodder 2.18 has been in Extras-Testing for some days now[1]. It would be good to get some votes for it to get it into Extras, because it includes a bugfix that fixes YouTube downloads (users can't download videos from YouTube with the current version in Extras - this has been fixed in the

Re: QtComponents and qmlviewer on N900

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/8/18 mece mec...@gmail.com: I'm trying to get a QtQuick app I made for Harmattan to work on N900 with qmlviewer, and ran into some trouble. [...] Here's the error message: file:///home/user/tmp/qml/main.qml:1:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module QtQuick: Cannot load library

[Harmattan] Exclude directories from tracker / media player

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, For gPodder on Harmattan, I'd like to tell Tracker and/or the built-in Media Player to not index files below ~/MyDocs/gPodder/Downloads. Is there an easy way to achieve this (ideally by just installing some file somewhere)? In fear of Aegis bricking the device and forcing a reflash, I'd

Re: Stopping QML update when not visible

2011-05-30 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Andrew, 2011/5/30 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: Qt Quick 1.1 apparently features a Qt.application.active read-only property[1] which can be connected (somehow) to stopping animations, reading sensors and so on. [...] Thoughts welcome. To be honest, it's amazing (and disappointing) that

Re: Canonical list of fremantle sections

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/5/16 David Talmage talm...@acm.org: Is this still the canonical list of sections for debian/control in fremantle: http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#Sections There used to be a section named user/communication.  Is that now obsolete? The list where I always look is on this Wiki page

Re: Qt application crashes after 2 minutes if started from app grid

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, 2011/5/10 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 18:24 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: On 05/09/2011 08:44 PM, ext Timur Kristóf wrote: On 05/09/2011 04:43 PM, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: If you don't use D-Bus at all, you need to implement this single-instance and window

Re: QtMobility app shows, hides, shows again at startup

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi David, 2011/4/8 David Talmage talm...@acm.org: My newly released PanicButton application [1] behaves strangely at startup. When I start the application, it displays its window, then immediately hides the window.  In a few but significant number of seconds, it displays its window again.  

Re: Kill connection dialog

2011-03-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2011/3/6 Dominik Bartenstein d...@wahuu.at: I finally found a solution I wanted to share with you: killall -9 osso-connectivity-ui-conndlgs All modal dialogs associated with connectivity (i.e. connection could not be established etc.) disappear. The watchdog automatically

Re: Kill connection dialog

2011-03-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2011/3/6 Dominik Bartenstein d...@wahuu.at: The strategy I have implemented is as follows: When QNetworkSession's open()-method is called a QTimer with 2 minutes is started. When QNetworkSessions's opened-SIGNAL is emitted (i.e. connection was successfully established) the timer

Re: hildon.StackableWindow and blocking windows

2011-02-16 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Max, 2011/2/16 Max Usachev maxusac...@gmail.com: 2011/2/16 Alberto Garcia agar...@igalia.com On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:01:04AM +0200, Max Usachev wrote: I want to use StackableWindow in my program like dialogs That's not the way to do it in GTK: you have to show the new window and

Re: some more dev questions related to my libicd_policy_home_network.so project

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Jonathan, 2011/2/9 Jonathan Wilson jfwf...@tpgi.com.au: 1.What is the best place to store configuration information on the N900? And where can I find documentation and examples of storing such configuration information for my plugin? (in this case I will have a control panel plugin which

libdeclarative-multimedia on Maemo 5: Video component not working?

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, (CC'ing Xizhi as the maintainer of libdeclarative-multimedia) I plan to use the QML Video element from libdeclarative-multimedia (Qt Mobility QML Multimedia Components), and it already works great on Linux on my laptop, but it does not work right now on Maemo 5. The element exists, and I can

Re: Allowing rotation of closed-source apps

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Alberto, 2011/2/6 Alberto Mardegan ma...@users.sourceforge.net: What do you think about all this? I didn't check hildon-desktop and mb2 source code yet, so if you also happen to have some hints on the implementation, they are very welcome. :-) Sounds good. Hildon-Desktop already sets the

Re: libdeclarative-multimedia on Maemo 5: Video component not working?

2011-02-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Ville, 2011/2/6 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com wrote: ~ $ dpkg -l | grep -i mobility ii  libdeclarative-multimedia 1.0.2-maemo1+0m5                  Qt Mobility Multimedia QML plugin Hmm, I wonder whether pyside builds

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2011/1/27 Riku Voipio riku.voi...@nokia.com: On 01/25/2011 05:24 PM, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: A new version of an existing application should have a lower barrier to promotion than a new application. It's obvious;

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Attila and all, 2011/1/27 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: On Thursday 27 January 2011 18:07:32 Andrew Flegg wrote: Unless we take extraordinary (and almost certainly self-defeating) actions like requiring KISStester to be installed to use any software from Extras-(devel|testing). In

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2011/1/13 Ville Syrjälä syrj...@sci.fi: I was bored one Saturday night last year, and wrote this little HD home plugin to control the TV out on the N900. Finally got around to putting it online: http://gitorious.org/maemo-tvout-control Nice utility! The scale and aspect ratio options

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi again, 2011/1/13 Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com: PS: Is the TV-out control panel applet that's included in Maemo open source? If so, we should probably add the scale and aspect ratio options there as well (now that there's some working and tested code that does just that) and distribute

Re: [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Perl
pull back the scale value until the picture comes back. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:36:54AM +0100, Thomas Perl wrote: Would you care about packaging it up and uploading it to Extras? If you need help, just tell me, and I can assist with packaging and uploading. I'm too lazy to bother

Re: connecting to network in background

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Dominik, 2010/12/6 Dominik Bartenstein d...@wahuu.at: I try to open a QNetworkSession via session.open(). That works like a charm but if the connection cannot be established a connection pop up appears by default. [...] Is the ConnectInBackground sessionProperty implemented/available for

Re: Starting a 3G traffic monitoring application for N900: some questions

2010-11-29 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Andrea, 2010/11/29 a.gra...@gmail.com a.gra...@gmail.com: It's not easy to keep track of transfered data, so I'd like to write a desktop applet that monitor traffic and keep the amount updated. I'm going to write this in Qt/C++. I've some question before starting: 1) How can I detect,

Re: Discontinue distributing Maemo Bug Jars via email?

2010-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/11/22 Stephen Gadsby stephen.gad...@gmail.com: During the MeeGo conference, I had one person request I stop sending out Bug Jars via email. Does anyone find receiving them via email useful? Shall I continue to send them via email or not? I don't like the fact that bug jars are sent

Re: Documentation of Maemo extensions for .desktop files?

2010-10-15 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/15 Dave Neary dne...@maemo.org: Does anyone know of any document which contains a complete list of custom fields an explanation of their purpose, please? Or, if not, a pointer to the source code of whatever app/library parses these files on Maemo? I think it's in Hildon-Desktop,

Re: Multiple packages for Git in Maemo Extras (git and git-core)

2010-10-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hey ho! (CC'ing Jeremiah: Can you provide your insight on how to do this transition right?) 2010/10/11 Wes Hardaker w...@hardakers.net: On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:13:24 +0200, Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com said: TP I've just noticed that there are different packages of Git in the TP Extras

Multiple packages for Git in Maemo Extras (git and git-core)

2010-10-11 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! I've just noticed that there are different packages of Git in the Extras repository: One is called git[1] and the other git-core[2] - with different maintainers and different versions. It would be nice if we could find a way to resolve this issue and get one of the packages removed (or at

Re: problem with python, gtk and utf8

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/3 pelt...@gmail.com: and the dict(?!?) is like this: letters = {}            letters['1'] = ['', '.', ',', '?', '!', '1', '@', '-', '_', '(', ')', ':', ';', '', '%', '*', '#', '+', '', '=', '', '$', '£', '§', '¥']            letters['2'] = ['', 'a', 'b', 'c', '2', 'å', u'ä']

Re: Handling files in root privileged directory from an application

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/10/3 Chris Saturn chris_sat...@hotmail.com: I would like to ask your insight a way to handle securely files that need to arrive in root privileged directory from a user application written in python. In my specific case, the user application will create a file and copy it to

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

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/26 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com: Being able to set a breakpoint and actually hitting that breakpoint on device without batting an eyelid is what IMO rocks most about the whole Nokia Qt SDK scheme. Oh yeah - I forgot about that. The whole debugging integration is pretty helpful,

Re: Package promoting

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: No matter the QA process, some developers will always feel that their code is perfect and doesn't need to be tested - but developers make rubbish testers of their own code. The challenge is to get the balance right, and I'm fairly convinced that we're

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

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Christian Kandeler christian.kande...@nokia.com: From Qt Creator's side, nothing prevents you from just giving the user name user instead of developer in the Maemo device configuration. The only problem is then accessing that account; if I'm not much mistaken, login is disabled for

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

2010-09-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/22 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com: Considering all of this, I'm inclined to wish we had a  I know what I'm using, please run this app as 'user'| checkbox in Nokia Qt SDK. The current version of Qt SDK automatically creates and deploys a .deb on the device, so once the package has

Re: suspendprocess - poor man's power save

2010-09-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/9/20 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com: I don't think real applications out there have a habit of unsubscribing from dbus signals when they don't need them either. Yes, that's what listening for D-Bus signals is all about most of the time (getting notified when something of interest

Re: Qt with OpenGL ES 1.1 on Maemo / N900

2010-09-03 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2010/9/3 kate.alh...@nokia.com: By default in device there is only OpenGL2 libraries, there are extra packages libgles1-sgx-img and libgles-sgx-dev containing OpenGL-ES1 . The implementation is based emulating OpenGL-ES1 fixed function pipeline by special shader code loaded. That may

Qt with OpenGL ES 1.1 on Maemo / N900

2010-09-02 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! According to the OpenGL ES Wiki page[1], Qt on Maemo only supports OpenGL ES 2.x. Is this really true? I've added the following two lines to my .pro file, and my application compiles, links and runs happily. However, the window (a QGLWidget) will stay black - nothing is drawn on the

Re: Extras QA checklist

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/7/22 Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com: [1] For example popular gPodder application is buggy because it apparently listens to orientation changes when it's not visible and does e.g. lots of operations when user tries to answer a call. If you reported a bug against said app, the

Re: Maemo QA process

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Perl
Servus! 2010/7/21 Roman Morawek li...@morawek.at: [...] Actually, I think in the early lifetime of a SW project there will probably be a release every few months, which could permanently block the tool's promotion to extras. If there are enough users / testers, releasing every month is no

Re: Maemo QA process

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/7/22 Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com: How about a system where developers could convince other developers to test drive their application by voting on theirs? I.e. being able to give a conditional vote that is realized only after the receiver votes up/down on your application?

Re: Getting the siz of the Memory Card

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/5/18 sandeep kodimela sandeep.kodim...@votarytech.com: I'm just trying to find out the size of the memory card,and the amount used and the amount free.Can anyone suggest me with the API for the same. Thanks in advance Check the output of the df command. You can also use GIO:

N900 Linux console output for debugging

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I'm currently playing with booting images on the N900 using a loopback device and bootmenu. The problem is that booting sometimes hangs, and I want to debug this. I've enabled the framebuffer console on the device, so I can see the early boot messages, but the five dots keep appearing and

Re: Proposal for new hildon-extras widget

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/16 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: If it's up to me, I would say we should include it in hildon-extras. What are the other contributors saying? Thomas? Faheem? Andrew? Yes, including it in Hildon-Extras is fine with me too. We can obviously note that this should be used in cases where

Re: Donate $x button on Packages and/or Downloads

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/15 Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com: I am now using HeAboutDialog as well... only issue is that it doesn't properly render in portrait mode :) Patches are welcome :p I've also ported the HeAboutDialog to Python for use in Panucci, so if anybody wants to use HeAboutDialog from Panucci

Re: PR1.2 SDK for Extras-devel: how to solve?

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/4/7 Ram Kurvakat rkma...@gmx.com: The idea is to give a choice to the developer to choose which SDK the autobuilder needs to use and to which repo the app needs to go to. Providing an option in the debian control file to build against the user specified SDK since the developer knows

Re: [Hildon-Extras] Proposing two new helper functions (logical font desc + color)

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/24 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: Thomas Perl wrote: Is this something that we want to have in Hildon-Extras? If so, I'm going to prepare a patch. The best place for this code is in he-helper.{c,h}, right? The logical color and font names can be found in the Fremantle Master Layout

Re: Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/23 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 00:20, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:39:09 Darren Long wrote: However, in the general case where the source and the executable are not the same, I believe that maemo.org would be obliged to

[Hildon-Extras] Proposing two new helper functions (logical font desc + color)

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I've ported my logical font style retrieval code from gPodder to C for use in MæPad, as I have not found similar functionality in the Hildon libraries: +gchar * +he_get_logical_font_desc(const gchar *name) +{ +GtkSettings *settings = gtk_settings_get_default(); +GtkStyle *style =

Re: GSoC project - aGLESory

2010-03-19 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! 2010/3/19 Carolina Simões Gomes carolina.sgo...@gmail.com: If possible, I'd like to know more about the aGLESory project, in order to begin forming my ideas about the project proposal. (I'm not the one who proposed the project, so I might be wrong about the motivations and ideas behind

Re: External Repository and HAM

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/8 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net writes: The purpose is to migrate my softwares from extras to my own repository as i ll not push anymore my applications to extras, but only on my own repository. Ahh, ok.  This is not something that is

Re: [Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/3/5 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: Before doing the release, maybe we should try to collect a list of project currently using widgets from hildon-extras. We could then directly contact the authors to notify them of the change. I've created a Wiki page where developers can add their apps

Re: [Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-02-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/2/15 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: The question is, whether or not we want that. If we release a library, we will have to deal with API compatibility in successive versions, etc. I think it would be helpful to create/ship a library. If we don't want to create a shared library just yet, we

Re: Why touch event go through my window

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Perl
2010/2/6 Evan JIANG first...@gmail.com: I may not explained it clearly. Let me give an easier understanding example. If the window is in the top of screen, covered the title bar, then when I press the button on the left-top corner, it will show the application switch window. That means, the

[Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I'm happy to announce that two new widgets are now available in the Hildon-Extras SVN repository. Hildon-Extras is a collection of additional widgets and dialogs that are designed to work on Maemo devices and make development of commonly-used UI elements easier by providing a set of

Re: Proposal: Sharing plugin to call command-line apps (e.g. photo sharing via SCP)

2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello Alan, b0nc3 and Tuomas! 2010/1/5 Qole qole.tab...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com wrote: I've been thinking of creating a SCP sharing plugin for uploading photos to a web server, but then thought that a generic command-line sharing plugin would

Proposal: Sharing plugin to call command-line apps (e.g. photo sharing via SCP)

2010-01-02 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! I've been thinking of creating a SCP sharing plugin for uploading photos to a web server, but then thought that a generic command-line sharing plugin would be even more universal and useful. I'm thinking of a plugin that has a single-line configuration entry that contains the command line

Re: How to play music in silent mode?

2009-12-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/20 Alberto Garcia agar...@igalia.com: I want to make Vagalume play music even if the N900 is in silent mode. I also don't want it to be interrupted when I receive a new IM. Summarizing: I want the same behavior as the N900 media player. How do I do that? I'm using GStreamer's

Re: docs and optification

2009-12-18 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/13 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: On Sunday 13 December 2009 15:13:54 Mustali Dalal wrote: Purging copyright files does not seem right; they are tiny and have legal bearing. Since a lot, if not all, apps currently in testing use GPL or other FOSS license, I would guess there be good

Re: QA Process for non user/* packages and how Application Manager handles upgrades (was: Re: extras-devel - extras-testing auto-promotion not working?)

2009-12-03 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/12/2 Anderson Lizardo anderson.liza...@openbossa.org: 2009/12/2 Benoît HERVIER kher...@khertan.net: What happen if i push something for testing like PyGTKEditor for example ... but once this one has been push, a new version of a python binding used by PyGTKEditor exist in the

Re: coding in python using os.system , (works on scratchbox but not on N900), Urgent pls help

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/29 Anderson Lizardo anderson.liza...@openbossa.org: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, shampavman shampavma...@gmail.com wrote: if anyone can confirm that something like this.. os.system(ls process_output.log) would work , it would be of really great help.. Also if there are any

Marking audio files as don't play in shuffle mode (Fremantle)

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! For gPodder it would be nice if it could mark all files that it downloads so that MP3 files downloaded with it are not taken into account when the user chooses the shuffle all songs feature in the Media Player (because one wants to listen to short music clips in shuffle mode, shuffling

GStreamer playbin2 and Silent mode on the N900

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! When the N900 is in silent mode, music played through playbin2 using GStreamer is also muted, so one has to switch to the General profile in order to listen to music. The built-in media player is not affected by this, so is there a way to set my playbin2 to not be muted when the phone has

Re: [Fwd: Re: Maemo Barcelona Weekend: best way to ask for help for a UI?]

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/19 Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com: 2009/11/17 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: Don't expect them to know the insights of Python/Hildon, though. They obviously know the Maemo 5 UI but how you get things done with code is a different matter. Anyway, there will be other colleagues attending

Re: [Fwd: Re: Maemo Barcelona Weekend: best way to ask for help for a UI?]

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/22 Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com: 2009/11/22 Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com: Maybe we should have a map of people and technologies on the Wiki so that when one needs (technical) help with a specific technology, he/she can look up the name of persons that have worked

Re: Geocoding library for Fremantle?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello, Simon! 2009/11/10 Simon Pickering s.g.picker...@bath.ac.uk: I'm looking for a geocoding library to run on the N900. I want to take the location string attached to those N900 using online contacts who provide it, and plot that on a map (Emerillon). Of course having to parse the message

Re: debhelper-maemo-package-icons

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/10 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 13:50, Gabriel Schulhof n...@go-nix.ca wrote: I, for one, will stick to 26x26, because older version of Hildon Application Manager do not work with higher rez icons, and I don't want yet another reason to split my source package

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/11/4 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: Attila said... On Wednesday 04 November 2009 10:28:58 Andrew Flegg wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 09:03,  tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: Two days later I notice a blinking orange light in my status bar. I see a new version of the application. I

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

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! 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 don't think that the widget

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/23 Luca Donaggio donag...@gmail.com: I was thinking that there should be a way to remove the existing screenshot from a postinst script when upgrading to a new version of the app. I mean, some way more reliable than `rm /home/user/.cache/launch/service name.pvr`. This could be useful

GStreamer playbin + MP3 playback on the N900

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! As mentioned in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5629, I cannot get MP3 files to play with GStreamer on the N900 using the playbin element. I have tested it with both Python code and the gst-launch utility. $ gst-launch playbin uri=file:///path/to/a/mp3file.mp3 The error I am

Re: GStreamer playbin + MP3 playback on the N900

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/21 Claudio Saavedra csaave...@igalia.com: El mié, 21-10-2009 a las 16:17 +0200, Thomas Perl escribió: As mentioned in https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5629, I cannot get MP3 files to play with GStreamer on the N900 using the playbin element. I have tested it with both Python code

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/21 Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com: Please don't get me wrong. optify is still useful and good to have, but everybody should bear in mind that it's only a workaround, and that relocating the software to /opt would be a much safer and more elegant solution. It would be helpful if

Re: Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/15 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: ext Thomas Perl wrote: In the latest version of gPodder (written in Python), I have started using maemo-optify. It saves around 1 MB according to maemo-optify's output. The problem is that now when a user upgrades from an older version to this version

Re: Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/16 Mikko Vartiainen mvartiai...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:49, Mikko Vartiainen mvartiai...@gmail.com wrote: This would certainly work. maemo-optify should have option which prevents it from creating

Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! In the latest version of gPodder (written in Python), I have started using maemo-optify. It saves around 1 MB according to maemo-optify's output. The problem is that now when a user upgrades from an older version to this version, it breaks (the user cannot start the application from the

Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! With the latest firmware, the Settings window and the Application Manager both show a fake screenshot when clicking the icon in the menu and then fade to the real window contents after the application has really started up (look closely at the Language region icon in the settings dialog

Re: Color wheel mockup

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/5 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: How about this: We put the labels for R,G,B and hex color directly into the color preview. This saves some space and I think white text with black outline should be readable on every color background. Then we join the palette selection from Thomas with

Re: Color wheel mockup

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/10/5 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:38 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: That doesn't seem like a real problem, as long as we make sure that we get the dialog button style (the one with the blue outline) for our buttons on the right. Exactly. If we can't use the action

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/30 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com writes: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:44 +0200, Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki) kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com writes: What prevents the

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com: From: Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com I'd rather do without the scrolling if possible. Here's my mock-up and the accompanying Python script that you can use to try it out: http://thpinfo.com/2009/maemo/colorchooser.png http://thpinfo.com/2009/maemo

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Joaquim Rocha jro...@igalia.com: Andrea Grandi wrote: from HTMLParser import HTMLParser --- package name in upper case... urllib2.Request(url, data) method name in upper case... first they suggest name convention and then they're the first one not following them? This really

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/28 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:00 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote:  * Added pure black and white as suggested by Graham  * One slot is free (when the current setting is a custom color that is    not in the palette, the slot will be taken by that color and pre

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/26 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Saturday 26 September 2009 15:00:33 Thomas Perl wrote: I'd rather do without the scrolling if possible. Here's my mock-up and the accompanying Python script that you can use to try it out: I like the approach.  Good demo! I am not sure about

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-25 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/25 gary liquid liq...@gmail.com: incidentally, there is a colorwheel in standard GTK http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GTK_color_chooser.png whilst the number boxes themselves are not finger friendly (they could be replaced with popouts of some kind) the dialog itself certainly

Fremantle: Opening URLs and local files

2009-09-17 Thread Thomas Perl
Hello! What is the canonical way of opening a browser and the media player (or more general: opening a URL and opening a local file) from code on Fremantle? Is there a command-line utility that can be used or a D-Bus call? If so, where is the D-Bus call documented (sample code would be enough

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/7 Brent Chiodo bchi...@gmail.com: I look forward to the one in Python (I program in Python, don't know much C)! It's not the perfect solution, but it works both on Maemo and on the Desktop: import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new('http://www.maemo.org/') See

Re: App menu not popping up any more after upgrading to Fremantle Beta2

2009-07-27 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/7/27 Alberto Garcia agar...@igalia.com: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:27:31PM +0200, Luca Donaggio wrote: Thanks Alberto, now it works! I'm wondering why was it working before (Beta1) when I was doing a gtk_widget_show_all() on the main window only? It was a bug in the menu; it was

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-11 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/7/10 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: Have you got any sample code which uses window-state-event I could use as a basis for comparison? See the function window_state_event at: http://repo.or.cz/w/gpodder.git?a=blob;f=src/gpodder/gui.py;h=9b0d0bef53;hb=HEAD#l3323 In a more isolated and

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/7/8 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org:    2) Stop updating the screen when your app isn't in the       foreground. - 8 --- I'm willing to put together this wiki page but have two questions:    1) What is the best way of implementing (2) in C/Python/whatever? For GTK+ (all

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Ryan Abel wrote: What about something like powerlaunch? Music playback is a pretty common use case, and having to take the tablet out of your pocket to change the volume or the song is a pain. Some hooks into dsme/mce so you can issue commands with the screen turned off would be a nice

Re: PIM stuff (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Graham Cobb wrote: o Extending Opensync to non-PIM objects such as photos. No, that's probably solved by http://www.conduit-project.org/ already. Which would be nice to have on Maemo - and (using the search function there) seems to be kind of available for Maemo already:

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Karl Eichwalder wrote: The reader application must not blank the screen while reading; I've the feeling fbreader lacks the feature maemo-mapper already knows about: if in full-screen mode, keep screen contents visible. If you have not done so already, it might be good to file a bug at the

Re: programmatically saving new access points, source code for icd ui? dbus? or icd in general?

2008-10-21 Thread Thomas Perl
On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Patrik Flykt wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:14 -0400, ext Kwan Hong Lee wrote: However, we are unable to programmatically associate to newly found access points that we have never saved. ICd2 needs the network connection to be saved beforehand to gconf in order

Re: .install files

2008-10-07 Thread Thomas Perl
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:48:34 -0500 Frank Banul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I thought I would put a .install on the garage page but it seems that the garage web server is not configured to serve the .install files in a format that would allow for single click installs. I tried several different

Re: download and display image, please help.

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Perl
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 01:50:52 +0200 koos vriezen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/2 maemo developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am new to maemo/gtk/gnome etc. I try to build an application that can run on nokia 770. One simple thing this application needs to do is to download graphic from internet