Re: Plea to developers: Make data for all applications available to scripting languages

2007-09-16 Thread Jim McDonald
Giles Jones wrote: On 15 Sep 2007, at 22:53, J F wrote: What I would like to see is ALL programs having a way of getting at their data from a scripting language. I don't know if it makes sense to have some guidelines for developers to make it easier for this information to be got at.

Re: Plea to developers: Make data for all applications available to scripting languages

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 10:04, Jim McDonald wrote: Only if the database supports concurrent access by multiple processes, which most don't. You'd be better off supporting a single standard API to obtain the obvious data such as contacts/ calendar/todos (EDS being the one that I believe that

Re: Plea to developers: Make data for all applications available to scripting languages

2007-09-16 Thread Kero van Gelder
What I would like to see is ALL programs having a way of getting at their data from a scripting language. I don't know if it makes sense to have some guidelines for developers to make it easier for this information to be got at. This would be for someone more competent than me to suggest.

Re: Debug board

2007-09-16 Thread mickey
Paul Jimenez wrote: On Saturday, Sep 15, 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone happen to know if the debug board of the advanced Neo kit will be compatible with future versions of the Neo (or other FIC OpenMok o phones, at that)? It will definitely be

Re: webkit do_compile failed

2007-09-16 Thread Sudharshan S
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 20:15 -0500, Tom Z wrote: I seemed to hit a problem just before the do_compile in the same build process for webkit, all the solutions posted here so far don't seem to apply, as there seems to have no build/tmp/staging/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libWebKitGdk.*

libidn build fails in the current svn head

2007-09-16 Thread Sudharshan S
Hello everyone, I man having problems building libidn and would like to know if any one has this problem and/or gotten around the same. One thing from the logs i noticed was the fact that the build system is trying to install it before the do_compile stage..I guess this is weird or am i mistaken.

3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
Hello some months ago I discovered openmoko, this is a great project. I definately will buy one of these phones. What do users expect from a phone? At the moment, there are some hype-phones, like - nokia N95 (with 5 Mega Pixel Camera) - iphone (with a big Mp3 storage) - some phones

RE: Debug board

2007-09-16 Thread Richard Reichenbacher
Yeah, I think the core team and a great deal of the rest of the community would prefer OpenMoko to get the OS stable and core features working before they start working on the third device. Don't get ahead of yourself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 9/16/07, Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the gui is a QT gui. And a wxwidget gui si planned to implement it into imule application from i2p.net. Dunno, which gui is better for a openmoko application. So I have the question, if openmoko applicartions should have better a

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: To focus on tv support before movie playback support would be strange. Right now it is important to get the software fast and stable, and add basic support for sms, phone calls, etc. This is only my opinion. Indeed and I've had a

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote# Openmoko uses GTK+-2.x for GUI which is under LGPL. There is a lot of im clients available, and there has been a discussion about it in the list. Try to search up old posts. to be open

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Giles Jones
On 16 Sep 2007, at 22:16, Michael Schmidt wrote: DVB-T does not need any licence agreement, it is just terrestrial recieving on a phone. Therefore the display should be bigger... So this requires not a media player, but as well some hardware adjusting, a DVB-T Reciever chip and a bigger

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 9/16/07, Michael Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote# Openmoko uses GTK+-2.x for GUI which is under LGPL. There is a lot of im clients available, and there has been a discussion about it in the list.

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Michael Schmidt
It's DVB-H not DVB-T on a handheld. We've yet to see how each country handles the system. DVB-T has conditional access for some channels in the UK. Not sure about DVB-H. you missunderstood me, this is exactly my point, use DVB-T and not DVB-H. There is the Gsmart T600 phone in my first mail

Re: 3 requests/questions for Openmoko: DVB-T / Buddylist / Batman-Mesh

2007-09-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Michael Schmidt writes: On 9/16/07, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can install Qt if you like, but you cannot assume that all users will do that. Qt takes a lot of space Qt is the future, would it be possible to pre-install the open libraries? Or aren t the needed

Re: application idea

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Andros
On 9/13/07, Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to regions/postcodes or such. I believe Yahoo maps among others provides this geocoding data, but as I think of it, this could blow out into something larger: Imagine a defined

dialer suggestion

2007-09-16 Thread Joshua Layne
kinda tongue-in-cheek, but... so kinetic scrolling works now and all the 'dialer' does is capture numbers to send to the GSM chip. what about an old-school dialer? OK, maybe 'retro' is a better name at this point. ROTARY baby! kitsch. flare. nobodyelsehasit. (maybe there is a reason for

Re: Short guide how to run gllin with chroot

2007-09-16 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski
Hello. Shawn Rutledge pisze: Thanks, it's a convenient package. But I'm getting an error from gllin: test_cmd_receive_count = 22 gllin: early exit(3) in halInit()/674 gllin: -periodic[9] 1 gllin: ../../../src/hal_linux_tt.c:1043: glcb_ExceptionAssert: Assertion `0' failed. I've updated my