[MeeGo-community] meegolem -- adding rpmfusion, fedora and planetccrma repositories to meego

2010-09-19 Thread Niels Mayer
I've created a monster!! (Very well behaved too). I got sick of the total lack of applications on an otherwise decent-seeming http://meego.com Netbook distro, so I took matters into my own hands. For example, I was unable to play MP3's or other proprietary encoded media on a meego netbook, which

Re: [MeeGo-community] [PlanetCCRMA] meegolem -- adding rpmfusion, fedora and planetccrma repositories to meego

2010-09-20 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:40 AM, David Nielson naptas...@comcast.net wrote: ... After installing, I can plugin a USB keyboard (Akai LPK25), setup routing in qjackctl, and run qtractor (with fluidsynth dssi plugin synthesizer) and hear/record music. Works beautifully, even with the built-in

Re: [MeeGo-community] Hardware request queue

2010-09-22 Thread Niels Mayer
Does meego run on http://openpandora.org/ -- seems like this would provide an interesting alternative to the N900 platform for meego and might prove to be an alternate development target for those seeking a lower-cost platform (it's targetted as a gaming console but it could be used for a lot more

Re: [MeeGo-community] [PlanetCCRMA] meegolem -- adding rpmfusion, fedora and planetccrma repositories to meego

2010-09-23 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: (TODO: need to see if hpet timer exists and if enough extra are available for app use on atom/netbook platform as qtractor's current timing on the netbook is based on the dinosaur-era 1000Hz or the audio card timing

Re: [MeeGo-community] [PlanetCCRMA] meegolem -- adding rpmfusion, fedora and planetccrma repositories to meego

2010-09-29 Thread Niels Mayer
FYI, I joined the meego kernel list -- the missing ALSA hrtimer will be added: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Arjan van de Ven ar...@linux.intel.com wrote:  On 9/25/2010 11:20 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: Unfortunately, in meego, snd-hrtimer doesn't exist. Only modules in snd-*   are: ... hmm

[MeeGo-community] No Meego for Fedora 14?? Or just no Fedora Project Meego Spin

2010-10-17 Thread Niels Mayer
Despite announcements like http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fedora-14-beta-released-today-aimed-tablet-op https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Releases/14/Spinsaction=history states 17 October 2010 Bruno (Talk | contribs) (4,897 bytes) (No Meego for F14) for

Re: [MeeGo-community] No Meego for Fedora 14?? Or just no Fedora Project Meego Spin

2010-10-17 Thread Niels Mayer
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-advisory-board/msg09426.html /// // // /// // Re: Formal signoff on moblin-meego change? Subject: Re: Formal signoff on moblin-meego change? From: Peter Robinson pbrobin...@x Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:19:11

Re: [MeeGo-community] [LAD] Gone virtually Meego 1.1 in Fedora -- lots of questions....

2010-10-25 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: the mainstream kernel has merged *parts* of the RT patch. it does not have all of it, and the last time i heard gleixner talk about it (last fall, in portland, OR at the linux plumbers conf) he felt that it unlikely

[MeeGo-community] Announcing Youttube-API project for Meego // Vote on googlecode project name

2010-11-03 Thread Niels Mayer
A few weeks ago, Quim Gil posted a request to port Youtube-direct to some meego lists and IRC: Qt Quick developer wanted to develop openly a port of http://code.google.com/p/youtube-direct/ - documenting the experience dealing with YouTube APIs and Android code. The prize will be an N900 to

Re: [MeeGo-community] Announcing Youttube-API project for Meego // Vote on googlecode project name

2010-11-03 Thread Niels Mayer
[I forgot to send this to meego-dev -- as this is developer related, please post replies to meego-dev] On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: A few weeks ago, Quim Gil posted a request to port Youtube-direct to some meego lists and IRC: Qt Quick developer

Re: [MeeGo-community] Announcing Youttube-API project for Meego // Vote on googlecode project name

2010-11-06 Thread Niels Mayer
I found two useful apps for study, which although not directly related to the youtube-direct app, cover aspects of programming needed for the task and give examples of this style of application using QtQuick: (1) Simple Qt Quick based Flickr client for N900.

Re: [MeeGo-community] [Qt-qml] Announcing Youttube-API project for Meego // Vote on googlecode project name

2010-11-14 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: However, I'm having trouble building these using meego-sdk-qt-creator-2.0.1-24.1.x86_64 . I've previously built/modifiedqthello per I think

[MeeGo-community] Fwd: Dr. Dobb's Webcast: Developing with the MeeGo SDK

2010-11-23 Thread Niels Mayer
https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventregF=1002700 A Dr. Dobb's Webcast: Get on the Fast Track – Developing with the MeeGo SDK Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: One Hour Tune in and watch as Bob

[MeeGo-community] how to ensure handset cell transmitter is really off while doing development

2010-12-03 Thread Niels Mayer
A new study has been released on cellphone radiation risks. Although I take such mainstream medicine releases with a giant boulder of salt (they always under-report, over-simplify, and trivialize health risks), even the most critical reading of the document should give pause to those exposed to

Re: [MeeGo-community] PCWorld: Why Nokia Is in Deep Trouble With MeeGo (should someone reply to this article?)

2010-12-29 Thread Niels Mayer
If I was a marketing person (i'm not), I'd exploit FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), and ask the question Which platform is least clouded by FUD? (1) Apple is closed and proprietary. An Open source platform with critical applications also based on open-source, and 3rd party apps based

[MeeGo-community] How Android solves credential stealing issue // why not same security for MeeGo?

2011-01-10 Thread Niels Mayer
In http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-security-discussion/2011-January/15.html I brought up the issue of credential stealing between applications running on the MeeGo platform. Doing some thinking on this subject, and the exceedingly complex way a wallet or centralized credential store

Re: [MeeGo-community] [Meego-security-discussion] How Android solves credential stealing issue // why not same security for MeeGo?

2011-01-16 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Brian McGillion brian.mcgill...@symbio.com wrote: The following is a demo from a Qt app view: http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-platform-security/mssf-demo Brian -- Thanks for the pointer, which reminded me to listen to your talk again at

[MeeGo-community] why not Android on top of MeeGo to get best of both worlds

2011-01-19 Thread Niels Mayer
In http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/556 I note the following: Android in the house The road ahead looks even more interesting. For the next cycle, the Linaro team is going to build an Android environment on the same kernel and toolchain that we collaborate on with Ubuntu. For

Re: [MeeGo-community] Web SDK with WRT

2011-01-28 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Eric Enver viwen...@gmail.com wrote:    In Web Runtime terminology, the widget application packaging according the  to the W3C widget family of specifications and I can run some example widget on MeeGo emulator.    But now I am research about WAC widget

Re: [MeeGo-community] Web SDK with WRT

2011-01-30 Thread Niels Mayer
I finally found http://wiki.meego.com/SDK/Docs/1.1/Web_SDK_with_WRT that talks about the role of WRT on MeeGo. http://maintenance.maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/qt_web_runtime_for_n900/ and http://twimgo.substanceofcode.com/ say Qt WRT is also available on n900 maemo repos. Hoping to test it out, I

[MeeGo-community] Are the rumors true, or are competitors piling on against MeeGo to kill competition?

2011-02-09 Thread Niels Mayer
I was just forwarded some scary news -- tell me it ain't so... http://www.itwriting.com/blog/3810-meego-nogo-things-look-bad-for-the-intelnokia-linux-project.html MeeGo NoGo: things look bad for the Intel/Nokia Linux project

[MeeGo-community] Fwd: nokia new strategic direction what is the future for qt

2011-02-14 Thread Niels Mayer
The following statement from Nokia's Director Qt Ecosystem – Qt Sales, Marketing and Services is relevant for the MeeGo community: http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/12/nokia-new-strategic-direction-what-is-the-future-for-qt/ // [...] Qt will

Re: [MeeGo-community] nokia new strategic direction what is the future for qt

2011-02-16 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: Also, interesting to compare MeeGo's GUI/desktop offerings  to the latest Android release (Gingerbread), whose innovations are things that have long been available in MeeGo and Qt and KDE and Maemo: I actually meant

[MeeGo-community] I created another monster! (meego netbook 1.1.90 trunk + Intel's tablet UX simultaneously)

2011-02-19 Thread Niels Mayer
Executive summary: http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/ How it happened: I was trying to get a stable platform to apply the meegolem [1] treatment for 1.2 netbook and also a testing platform for tablet-sized touchscreen QML/QtMobility 1.2 development... I had tried out the Intel

Re: [MeeGo-community] Intels Tablet UX

2011-02-21 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Mark Constable ma...@renta.net wrote: Has anyone any idea if and when Intel will contribute their Tablet UX binaries and sources to repo.meego.com and gitorious.org? Interestingly, the files in the Intel Tablet UX (

[MeeGo-community] Fedora 14 PlanetCCRMA music/audio/video apps on MeeGo 1.2

2011-02-22 Thread Niels Mayer
Here's an example of installing Fedora 14 Apps from PlanetCCRMA [1] with MeeGolem repository hacks on MeeGo 1.2 [2] 'netbooktablet': http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbooktablet/MeeGolem-con-CCRMA-installing.txt (nb: you can't just go blindly installing stuff... for example, I forgot about the app

[MeeGo-community] Installing Skype on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook is trivial

2011-02-23 Thread Niels Mayer
. meegolem-172-~/RPM wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10 meegolem-173-~/RPM mv getskype-linux-beta-fc10 getskype-linux-beta-fc10.rpm meegolem-174-~/RPM sudo rpm --nodeps -ivh getskype-linux-beta-fc10.rpm Failed to expand %__security_plugin macro Preparing...

Re: [MeeGo-community] Creating a project page for tablet UX

2011-02-23 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com wrote: What are the non open source software in the distribution ? Seems like the non-open source parts are the Swype virtual keyboard. The agreement is very unclear on the rest of the MeeGo software accompanying the release,

[MeeGo-community] Simple install of google-chrome beta (and flash/java/talk) on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook

2011-02-23 Thread Niels Mayer
(1) Add google RPM repository to zypper: . [root@npm-desktop ~]# zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/`uname -i` google-chrome Adding repository 'google-chrome' [done] Repository 'google-chrome' successfully added Enabled: Yes Autorefresh: No URI:

[MeeGo-community] Easy way to get webcam running on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook

2011-02-24 Thread Niels Mayer
On the Lenovo s10-3t reference platform, I'm not sure why the netbook webcam isn't enabled by default, nor why it's missing from testing in http://qa-reports.meego.com/1.2/Netbook/Acceptance/Pinetrail/ . (Note that camera functionality is tested for N900 handset:

Re: [MeeGo-community] Simple install of google-chrome beta (and flash/java/talk) on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook

2011-02-24 Thread Niels Mayer
FYI, one of the failing tests in recent MeeGo 1.2 Netbook acceptance tests is https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10894 [REG]Flash plug-in is missed Note my comment: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10894#c3 . FYI, if you add the google-chrome repos and install

Re: [MeeGo-community] Media Player Issues -- how to stop MeeGo from moving music files around?

2011-02-26 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: http://nielsmayer.com/meego/netbook-ia32-1.2/tracker-banshee-kernel-fail.txt Seems like issues related to tracker have come up in Maemo previously. IMHO, for MeeGo 1.2, without some special customization or GUI tools

[MeeGo-community] Why is Lenovo S10-3t no longer a netbook reference platform?

2011-03-01 Thread Niels Mayer
http://meego.com/devices/netbook/supported-hardware-platforms says In general, MeeGo v1.0 for Netbook will run on Atom based Netbooks and, specifically, has been tested on these platforms: Asus EeePC 901, 1000H, 1005HA, 1008HA, EeePC 1005PE, Eeetop ET1602 Dell mini10v, Inspiron Mini 1012

Re: [MeeGo-community] Media Player Issues -- how to stop MeeGo from moving music files around?

2011-03-01 Thread Niels Mayer
at 7:42 PM, Niels Mayer nielsmayer at gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13778 Bug 13778 - Wireless connection loses router setting for Static-IP I apologize for complicating an existing bug with even wonkier behavior from allocation errors. They were my fault ( https

Re: [MeeGo-community] Installing Skype on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook is trivial

2011-03-03 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Auke Kok auke-jan.h@intel.com wrote: Please file a bugzilla on this issue. Thanks. It should be trivial to resolve this issue and we can include it to default QA testing. Done: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14117 . HARDWARE MODEL

[MeeGo-community] BugFix: DumbUser says MeeGo is broken I can't watch my videos, hear my music, or receive podcasts and there's no applications

2011-03-03 Thread Niels Mayer
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14129 is the bug version of my MeeGolem hack, updated for MeeGo 1.2, https://bugs.meego.com/attachment.cgi?id=4760 is the bzip-compressed package list resulting from adding Fedora/RPMFusion/PlanetCCRPMA/Adobe-Flash/Google-Chrome repos to MeeGo 1.2 == 22524

[MeeGo-community] How would MeeGo 1.2 security prevent Android's security exploits?

2011-03-04 Thread Niels Mayer
(1) Is the following report available yet? -- from the recent news it looks like hackers figured it out on their own... http://lwn.net/Articles/414816/ [Ryan Ware of Intel] noted the recent Coverity study of the Android kernel that found 88 high-risk defects and there were some

Re: [MeeGo-community] Starting a tablet book reader project

2011-03-05 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com wrote: QML is pretty powerful. Indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peC-ABhDEMQ TubeBook: mixed metaphors for browsing YouTube in QML This is just a first hack demo of a little 10 minute change to your code -- its a

Re: [MeeGo-community] BugFix: DumbUser says MeeGo is broken I can't watch my videos, hear my music, or receive podcasts and there's no applications

2011-03-05 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Michael Leibowitz michael.leibow...@intel.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:44 -0800, Niels Mayer wrote: ROOT-meegolem-107-~ zypper in gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly http://meego.com/about/licensing-policy Does the licensing policy

[MeeGo-community] Updated LibreOffice Wiki page for 1.2 and latest DL locations

2011-03-07 Thread Niels Mayer
I updated http://wiki.meego.com/LibreOffice#Installation with latest instructions (works for 1.2 as well) and link to .tgz file giving desktop links under office -- note that icons for all but 'calc' are missing until they are installed. I haven't found them yet But if anybody does, feel free

Re: [MeeGo-community] MeeGo Community Development: Apps, Surrounds and the Community OBS

2011-03-16 Thread Niels Mayer
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12805#c4 ... For the Netbook UX, I'm beginning to document my $0.00 App Store :-) here: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo-Lem , Which documents this bugfix: https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14129 aka 'DumbUser says MeeGo is broken I

Re: [MeeGo-community] CompetitionWatch: HP's WebOS on Every PC // Android honeycomb a mess // Gnome3Fedora15 look nice

2011-03-17 Thread Niels Mayer
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: Finally: http://www.muktware.com/a/14/2011/831/playing-fire-fedora-15-and-gnome-3 http://www.muktware.com/b/14/2011/832/my-wife-loves-gnome-3 -- I ... How hard would it be to offer Gnome3 UX just like Fedora15's

Re: [MeeGo-community] BugFix: DumbUser says MeeGo is broken I can't watch my videos, hear my music, or receive podcasts and there's no applications

2011-03-26 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: But this is again the discussion is if MeeGo is a platform or for end-users.. :) Just in case it is, please note conf. proposal:

Re: [MeeGo-community] Installing Skype on MeeGo 1.2 Netbook is trivial

2011-04-10 Thread Niels Mayer
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Auke Kok auke-jan.h@intel.com wrote: Please file a bugzilla on this issue. Thanks. It should be trivial to resolve this issue and we can include it to default QA testing. Done: https

Re: [MeeGo-community] Corewatcher

2011-05-01 Thread Niels Mayer
Something better needs to be setup before I set /etc/corewatcher.conf 'allow-submit' to 'yes' something like KDE's Dr. Konqi which steps you through loading the needed debug packages, and lets you look over your crashdump before submitting as bug report to bugzilla. (

Re: [MeeGo-community] Corewatcher

2011-05-02 Thread Niels Mayer
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Auke Kok auke-jan.h@intel.com wrote: please don't send workarounds to entirely disable corewatcher, but go and file a bug first? The last thing we want is people massively disabling the ONLY debugging tool we have to put on developers' desks to make them

[MeeGo-community] fyi -- meego-conf hyatt regency early departure fee

2011-05-19 Thread Niels Mayer
I just found out that if you change your departure date after you checkin at the Hyatt, you will be charged an early departure fee. I believe the fee was the cost of the room for the missed night(s). I had hoped to leave my reserved checkout on 5/26 till the last moment... I was hoping to find a

[MeeGo-community] fix/work-around brightness issue for MeeGo 1.2 tablet-ux on ExoPC

2011-05-29 Thread Niels Mayer
A solution/workaround for Bug 16882 - There is no way to adjust the backlight in MeeGo UX https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16882#c11 . Based on comments [...], I setup the following workaround: (1) orig gconf values: $ gconftool-2 -R /meego/ Failure listing entries in

[MeeGo-community] MeeGo 1.2: getting logrotate(8) to trim logs, tmpwatch(8) cleaning /tmp and making your tablet/netbook more Linux-like

2011-06-05 Thread Niels Mayer
On my MeeGo 1.2 system(s), one of which I've been running since February of this year, I've noticed files in /var/log growing without bounds, sometimes getting too large for even emacs(1) to view them; Furthermore, /tmp and /var/tmp was a mess because tmpwatch(8) wasn't being run; and at boot

Re: [MeeGo-community] MeeGo 1.2: getting logrotate(8) to trim logs, tmpwatch(8) cleaning /tmp and making your tablet/netbook more Linux-like

2011-06-06 Thread Niels Mayer
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Niels Mayer nielsma...@gmail.com wrote: I'll eventually have some screenshots in http://nielsmayer.com/meego/tab/ http://nielsmayer.com/meego/tab/meegotab-screenshots.html -- shows various external apps i've setup/customized via http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo-Lem

[MeeGo-community] Video Feeds for SF2011 MeeGo Conf

2011-06-10 Thread Niels Mayer
Another way to see videos from the conference is at http://video.linux.com/taxonomy/term/1164/0 Tag: MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011 Unfortunately, the associated feed http://video.linux.com/taxonomy/term/1164/0/feed gives only the most recent episodes, instead of the entire conference, as