Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 01.03.2009, 20:36 +0100 schrieb Steffen Moeller: >> I read through http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/TangoGPS#Debian and felt that >> it was not >> completely right. Is the activation of the device truly necessary? Rather >> not, it seems, >> at least not for me. > > Yes, it should work without activation.
changed in the openmoko wiki page. > >> The directory /root/Maps seems to find some consensus between Qtopia and >> Debian concerning >> the location of OpenStreetMap data that was downloaded for offline reuse. >> I'd prefer to >> use /var/cache/osm, instead. Would that sound reasonable to you as well? Or >> is there a >> better location? > > Downloaded maps are user data, thus should be below ~ (i.e. /root while > running as root, /home/someone while running as a normal user). > > That said, it should probably be in ~/.tangoGPS, to follow unix > convention. I don't think so. This is public and mostly invariant data. With multiple individuals one could possibly learn about someone's preference in locations, but otherwise this should be shared - between users and applications. [...] >> When tracking for OpenStreetMap (while playing Mokomaze), how can I >> reasonably >> user-friendly prevent the freephone to go to sleep (darken the screen)? > > It should be done by mokomaze in a system-agnostic way. The most general > solution to that seems to be xdg-screensaver with the "suspend WindowID" > and "resume WindowID" options. > > Then Debian should provide a extended version of xdg-screensaver that > claims the Display resource from the frameworkd. > > See this thread: > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-February/001183.html > So, we ran into the same problem :) Thank you for the pointer. It is beyond what I could possibly address in any need future. Steffen _______________________________________________ pkg-fso-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint
