Re: [maemo-developers] Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

2007-01-16 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
Just an idea/plan: FIRST STAGE (alpha version) 1) Create a pytgtk app that asks the user for its google-calendar account details and stores them in the device. 2) When internet connection is available (or when user requests it), it should download ical files. Perhaps it would be better using

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hi! On 1/16/07, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Camera is vga. So that means 640 x 480. That is correct! However don't expect a good framerate when using VGA resolution since the camera is meant for videocalls. Use CIF (352x288) or QCIF (176,144) if you want an acceptable (~15) fps.

[maemo-developers] Re: Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

2007-01-16 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:05 +0100, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: Just an idea/plan: FIRST STAGE (alpha version) 1) Create a pytgtk app that asks the user for its google-calendar account details and stores them in the device. 2) When internet connection is available (or when user

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

2007-01-16 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
Yes, if opensync support is easy to do, it could be used from alpha versions. Is there python support for opensync?? 2007/1/16, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:05 +0100, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: Just an idea/plan: FIRST STAGE (alpha version) 1) Create

Re: [maemo-developers] Improving Cairo performance on the N800

2007-01-16 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hello! Now, the recently announced Nokia N800 is different from the 770 in various ways that are interesting for Cairo performance. I've got my eye on the ARMv6 SIMD instructions and the PowerVR MBX accelerator. Yeah! me too. The combined power of these two can make it possible to optimize

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

2007-01-16 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
To myself, yes, it seems there is a python plugin for it... 2007/1/16, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, if opensync support is easy to do, it could be used from alpha versions. Is there python support for opensync?? 2007/1/16, Ross Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue,

Re: [maemo-developers] Improving Cairo performance on the N800

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:48:35PM -0800, ext Daniel Amelang wrote: - Write a new Cairo backend that targets OpenVG, since the PowerVR MBX has fully-accelerated OpenVG rendering. I haven't found anything about OpenVG + Maemo 3.0, so maybe the software infrastructure isn't there yet to do

[maemo-developers] Anybody has any news about a PIM application in the hildon framework (and so for 770/800?)

2007-01-16 Thread Michele Giorgini
I was looking for hildon docs about calendars because I started hacking a little on winzig in Python and run into this http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/pymaemo/pyhildon_weekdaypicker.html The fact that astonished me is that... Description Weekday picker supports non-mutually exclusive

Re: [maemo-developers] Discussion of a possible project - offline calendar project

2007-01-16 Thread Matthew Allum
Hi; On 1/15/07, Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/15/07, Martin Grimme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [development of another PIM suite] This sounds really interesting. I know that there are already applications like dates or GPE-calendar for the N770 but both don't fit my needs. Since

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread David Weinehall
On mån, 2007-01-15 at 11:50 -0800, ext Ty Hoffman wrote: Y'all, I haven't seen any specs on the n800 camera (resolution, etc.). Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm now getting annoyed with the speed of the n800 developer

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Weinehall schreef: On mån, 2007-01-15 at 11:50 -0800, ext Ty Hoffman wrote: Y'all, I haven't seen any specs on the n800 camera (resolution, etc.). Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. Oh, and for what it's

Re: [maemo-developers] Improving Cairo performance on the N800

2007-01-16 Thread Fernando Herrera
El mar, 16-01-2007 a las 12:20 +0200, ext Daniel Stone escribió: We don't currently use the MBX block at all: there's no driver or anything to hook into. There was a linux driver for PowerVR from Imagination Technologies for 2.4 kernels, but I think is not open source :( Salu2

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread David Weinehall
On tis, 2007-01-16 at 13:44 +0100, ext Koen Kooi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Weinehall schreef: On mån, 2007-01-15 at 11:50 -0800, ext Ty Hoffman wrote: Y'all, I haven't seen any specs on the n800 camera (resolution, etc.). Can anybody point

Re: [maemo-developers] Anybody has any news about a PIM application

2007-01-16 Thread Michele Giorgini
== Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:52:18 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fred_Lef=E9v=E8re-Laoide?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] Anybody has any news about a PIM application in the hildon framework (and so for

[maemo-developers] examining n800 kernel

2007-01-16 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Hi, I've been looking at the n800 kernel source in bora repository to figure out what n800 is like comparing to the n770. Here is a summary of some things I found. As I don't have the device I may be wrong with something that could be easily verified. kernel is 2.6.18-omap1 - everybody

Re: [maemo-developers] examining n800 kernel

2007-01-16 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Frantisek, BT Was already discussed, see the bt headsed thread - Bluecore4 CSR chip capable of BT2.0, driver is called hci_h4p in drivers/bluetooth/hci_h4p (not present in mainline kernel?). the mainline inclusion is work in progress, but the driver (especially its firmware handling)

[maemo-developers] Encouraging developers to use Maemo Extras

2007-01-16 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Hi, While everyone who makes packages for Debian like to see them in Debian Unstable or Ubuntu Universe (modulo proprietary software developers), while there is little activity in Maemo Extras. That's not surprising, as there is no or little advertisment of Extras in the development

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Ty Hoffman
Zeeshan Ali wrote: Hi! On 1/16/07, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Camera is vga. So that means 640 x 480. That is correct! However don't expect a good framerate when using VGA resolution since the camera is meant for videocalls. Use CIF (352x288) or QCIF (176,144) if you want an

[maemo-developers] Python for Maemo -- new version released

2007-01-16 Thread Elvis Pfützenreuter
We from INdT (Nokia Institute of Technology -- Brazil) have the pleasure to announce the new version of Python for Maemo, for Maemo SDK 2.1 (Scirocco) and SDK 3.0 (Bora). Highlights of this version: * Support for N800 device/software (SDK 3.0) * Language updated to Python 2.5 * Updated

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On 1/16/07, Zeeshan Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On 1/16/07, Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Camera is vga. So that means 640 x 480. That is correct! However don't expect a good framerate when using VGA resolution since the camera is meant for videocalls. Use CIF (352x288) or

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Ty Hoffman
David Weinehall wrote: On mån, 2007-01-15 at 11:50 -0800, ext Ty Hoffman wrote: Y'all, I haven't seen any specs on the n800 camera (resolution, etc.). Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm now getting annoyed with the speed of

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Clark
I take nokia is going to refund the €300/$300 price difference for people that bought an n800 already but are going to be in the dev program? Wow, that's a wonderfully well developed sense of entitlement you've got there. ___ maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Clark
On 16 Jan 2007, at 18:27, Ty Hoffman wrote: Well, David, I tried to be as nice as possible with my comment about the wait, which is why I said I understand it's not easy to manage a program like this, and get it going. So I'm thinking that the (gasp!) crap is uncalled for. Again, I know

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On 1/16/07, Matt Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take nokia is going to refund the €300/$300 price difference for people that bought an n800 already but are going to be in the dev program? Wow, that's a wonderfully well developed sense of entitlement you've got there. Getting beyond the

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Ty Hoffman
Michael Wiktowy wrote: On 1/16/07, Matt Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take nokia is going to refund the €300/$300 price difference for people that bought an n800 already but are going to be in the dev program? Wow, that's a wonderfully well developed sense of entitlement you've got

[maemo-developers] For want of a ... (Was: n800 camera specs)

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Clark
Getting beyond the easily misinterpreted intentions of mailing list participants, he does have a very good idea. If Nokia just sends 500 worthy developers mail-in rebates for store-bought n800's then there is no issue of waiting anymore. It is probably the easiest thing to handle logistically on

[maemo-developers] osso-browser-interface.h

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Gatt
So, i'm still struggling to get a browser window to embed, but i came across this maemo garage project: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/browser/ If you download the maemo-browser-interface tarball, it seems to define osso-browser-interface.h. This version misses out the define for the new embed

Re: [maemo-developers] For want of a ... (Was: n800 camera specs)

2007-01-16 Thread Levi Bard
I know my initial list would be: 1 more open source code 2 or, if I can't have that, dev access to non-redistributable code on easy terms (like, less than retail device cost) 3 did I mention the code? 4 discounted hardware For me: 1: More freed code 2: Discounted (hardware and the software that

Re: [maemo-developers] For want of a ... (Was: n800 camera specs)

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Clark
I couldn't care less about dev licensing for non-redistributable code. That's interesting. Is that because it's not relevant to you? ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

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

2007-01-16 Thread Jon Smirl
If only the N800 had IR support then it could be used to go after the high end remote control market. Maybe we'll get it in the next model. There were at least five devices like this at CES this year. http://www.rticorp.com/products/T4.html They are remote controls in the $1,000 to $1,500 range

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:18:52PM -0500, ext Michael Wiktowy wrote: Has anyone done any testing to see what the max [EMAIL PROTECTED] is? Is the bottleneck with the internal memory bandwidth or CPU speed. Depends: if you're attempting to display the result on-screen as well, then it greatly

Re: [maemo-developers] examining n800 kernel

2007-01-16 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:57:16PM +0100, ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: similar setup like N770 but hopefully improved (finally no memory bicycle but proper bus?). The external videochips seems to be from epson too, not 472 but 475 (or 4 in early prototypes?) called Blizzard and Hailstorm.

Re: [maemo-developers] For want of a ... (Was: n800 camera specs)

2007-01-16 Thread Levi Bard
I couldn't care less about dev licensing for non-redistributable code. That's interesting. Is that because it's not relevant to you? Yes, for the same reason I'm hacking on the 770 instead of some ultra-proprietary pocketpc-based device. -- Just stop and take your secret journey, you will

Re: [maemo-developers] For want of a ...

2007-01-16 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 19:40:12 16.01.2007 UTC+00 when Matt Clark did gyre and gimble: MC Wouldn't you like to see that source, even though you couldn't MC redistribute it? Not necessarily. Just a API/protocol documentation should be enough. -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[maemo-developers] Help needed on setting up the development plarform for NOKIA N770/800

2007-01-16 Thread RS
Hi Following are my questions: 1.I am newbie to Linuix. I have SUSE LINUX running in the VMWare Server on Windows PC. I would like to know if there are detail steps as to how I can setup the Maemo development platform on SUSE LINUX. 2.From the links in www.maemo.org, I understand that the