Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Simon Norberg
Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I don't think the answer surprise anyone, but atleast we know for sure now.

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
[and this was obviously meant to be sent to the list] Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 20.04.2007 um 08:48 schrieb Raphaël Jacquot: I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just like the GSM/GPRS module. I

Re: Release (WAS: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko)

2007-04-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:26 +0200, Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free software for the GPS. I don't think

SoftGPS, was: Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 20 April 2007 09:16, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I would suspect: size, matching interfaces, availability, cost of additional components? When I worked on similar things, cost and updates were the two main reasons. Sizewise often there wasn't such a big difference, cost was very

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Florent THIERY
I'd like to be able to do most things without menus or buttons, just learned interaction. Sorry to remind this, but we have been thinking of such controls, with simple mockups: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/UI_Improvements#Using_simple.2C_localized_warp_as_modifier_key These controls are

Re: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko

2007-04-20 Thread Red Dragon
I have raised the question about this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] long time ago. Similar issue to Wifi driver, but different decision. However, I think we have to understand that building everything from free/open source in the expected timeline is not that easy. cheers, --rd On 4/20/07, Simon

Re: Release (WAS: Richard Stallmans standpoint about openmoko)

2007-04-20 Thread Hans Cats
2007/4/20, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:26 +0200, Simon Norberg wrote: Hello, I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including what he thought about openmoko and his answer was: I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use

Fwd: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ryan Prior
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ryan Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 20, 2007 12:40 PM Subject: Re: picture viewer To: Florent THIERY [EMAIL PROTECTED] If we're going to have a mokofingerwheel on the map interface, why not allow finger wheel up to zoom out and finger wheel down

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ortwin Regel
The problem I have with double tap zooming is that I'd like to have smooth zooming. I also don't like drawing a box for zooming but rather the picture reacting instantly to my motion. Not sure how well the first gen hardware will handle this, though. Ortwin On 4/19/07, Steven Milburn [EMAIL

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread kenneth marken
Ortwin Regel wrote: The problem I have with double tap zooming is that I'd like to have smooth zooming. I also don't like drawing a box for zooming but rather the picture reacting instantly to my motion. Not sure how well the first gen hardware will handle this, though. true, that iphone zoom

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Steven Milburn
If you want smooth scrolling, how about this mod to what I said earlier: On the double-tap to center-and-zoom, hold the the second tap. The pic slowly (human speed) zooms and centers to where you're touching. When you've zoomed in enough, lift the finger. This would be similar to the way

Re: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ortwin Regel
Interesting... However, what about zooming out again? Also this would take too much time while possibly being too fast for my grandparents. Holding the second tap is a bad idea but dragging it around might be a good one. All in all, how about this: drag finger -- drag viewable area tap, then tap