Re: some questions before buying FreeRunner

2009-06-09 Thread Paul Fertser
a dehqan  writes:
> 4-Do all Bluetooth headsets work with FR ?

AFAICT, no. And i don't know a definitive way to tell which will work
except to try it or to search the wiki.

> 5-What part of non buzz fixed A6 has buzz ?How can we understand if it
> is fixed or not ?

All of them. All non-buzz fixed A6 have buzz. It depends on external
conditions, not on the phone itself.

> 6-Dealer has said that it's A6 FR is buzz fixed ,should i trust ? what
> can i do if he/she posted it in our country and was not buzz fixed ?

What dealer? How can we tell if you can trust someone if we don't know
whom are you talking about?

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Re: some questions before buying FreeRunner

2009-06-09 Thread Boris Wong
a dehqan wrote:
> ...and what is GPS antenna for 
If you're talking about the GPS Antenna jack on the side of the phone, 
it's unnecessary unless you are in a building or car with very bad signal.
> 6-Dealer has said that it's A6 FR is buzz fixed ,should i trust ? what
> can i do if he/she posted it in our country and was not buzz fixed 
If the dealer is listed on the Wiki, then I don't see why they shouldn't 
be trusted.

-Boris


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Re: OpenBmap

2009-06-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Alex (Maxious)
Sadleir wrote:
> I did a big upload yesterday (52 log files) and unfortunately I let it
> delete the processed ones (After the "Successfully uploaded (52) log files"
> dialog). "Unfortunately" because I haven't seen my
> username("lambdacomplex")/cells on the stats page or the twitter or on the
> map yet so I worry they have been lost in the abyss. Does it say anywhere
> what the delay/process is to get the cells onto the maps?

The server was broken at some stage so the website was not updated but
AFAIK no information was lost so I believe your data is also somewhere
there.. just wait to see your stats updated.

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Re: OpenBmap

2009-06-09 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Risto H. Kurppa  wrote:

>
>
> - I already discussed with Onen (#openmoko-cdevel) some issues in the
> client app (= I have no idea what all the numbers mean and OTOH it'd
> be nice to have it work as a daemon eating as little resources as
> possible, OTOH it'd be nice to have the possibility to see a
> visualization of the data collected)

I found the log file informative and entertaining to follow (tail -f
.openBmap/openBmap.log) . Cellhunter often crashes (taking ophonekit with
it) and I don't notice because it simply stops refreshing the display.


> - about the website www.openbmap.org - it's nice to see the servers
> up&running again! I was surprised to get over 700 cells collected by
> just driving a car for 250km and taking a train back and taking a bus
> for 30 minutes in the city. Hard to believe I'd have seen 700 cells
> but if they tell I did.. http://realtimeblog.free.fr/logins_stats.php


I did a big upload yesterday (52 log files) and unfortunately I let it
delete the processed ones (After the "Successfully uploaded (52) log files"
dialog). "Unfortunately" because I haven't seen my
username("lambdacomplex")/cells on the stats page or the twitter or on the
map yet so I worry they have been lost in the abyss. Does it say anywhere
what the delay/process is to get the cells onto the maps?

The website could use some more features like that - some way to login to be
able to change/recover your password and a way to see what you've uploaded.
Cellhunter of course gives you instantanious confirmation in the form of
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Re: OpenBmap

2009-06-09 Thread kimaidou
Hi

+ 1 for the hard steps to see the polygone of one cell in the map trrough
all the lists. Why not just show all the cells in the current zoom level,
from e.g zoom level 14 or 15 (to avoid loading to many data and slowing
down). This is what we want to know : is the coverage ok in this or that
area ? If not, ok, I go there where there is no cell registered, and do som
logging.

Anyway, thanks for this great app.

2009/6/10 Risto H. Kurppa 

> Hi!
>
> I've been able to run openbmap (see opkg.org) for about a week now,
> here are some experiences:
>
> - Collecting cell id's is MUCH more easier than contributing to
> openstreetmap.org: all you need to do is start the openbmap app, make
> sure it has 3d fix, press the 'generate' -button (that'll be renamed
> to 'start' or 'log' or something soon :) and off you go. It records
> all the cells it sees. When you go inside, press 'quit' or 'stop'.
> When you get connected to Internet, press 'Upload'. That's it. (ok,
> before uploading you need to register at openbmap.org) -> no need to
> go and analyze the saved data afterwards.
>
> - I already discussed with Onen (#openmoko-cdevel) some issues in the
> client app (= I have no idea what all the numbers mean and OTOH it'd
> be nice to have it work as a daemon eating as little resources as
> possible, OTOH it'd be nice to have the possibility to see a
> visualization of the data collected)
>
> - about the website www.openbmap.org - it's nice to see the servers
> up&running again! I was surprised to get over 700 cells collected by
> just driving a car for 250km and taking a train back and taking a bus
> for 30 minutes in the city. Hard to believe I'd have seen 700 cells
> but if they tell I did.. http://realtimeblog.free.fr/logins_stats.php
>
> - Maps - this is the 'visualization' part of the project and I think
> that is what makes people interested and contribute - like every FLOSS
> software homepage should have 'screenshots' as one of the main menu
> items. Now you can select the country, mobile network, location area
> code and single cell to see the coverage there.
> (http://realtimeblog.free.fr/with_osm.php?mcc=244&mnc=91&step=2 )
>
> Since all I know is the country code and my cell operator.
> - sort the country list alphabetically - people don't have any idea of
> country codes (that are not the same as the phone country code:
> calling to finland needs +358 but the cell country code is 244...).
> - ok, I'm fine with selecting the mobile operator, that's something
> most of us know - but maybe sort again alphabetically, not based on
> the code none of us has ever seen..
> - but selecting the location area code - give me a break! So far we
> have 40 - 100 codes for single operator in Finland. If I wanted to
> know what's the coverage on the area of my interest, I have to just
> try to find the area I want by trying the list. And when I finally
> find that, I have to go through all the single cells individually.
> Nt very inspiring.
>
>  -> I think the country should be selected by the map: it should give
> the central coordinates and size to be used in the database search
> that then returns the information of cells. Different operators could
> be visualized by different colour. And then when I zoom in, at some
> stage it'd start showing the coverage if individual cells. And then
> clicking on a cell coverage area could give me the numbers: country
> id, operator, location area core, cell ID etc.. The current way
> expects people to want to know the coverage on one operator on one
> location area, and single cell instead of finding the cells in one
> area - which I really believe is the approach people would use more.
>
> So now we're waiting to be able to use all this information collected
> by three projects (opencellid, cellhunter and openbmap -> all the data
> has been imported to openbmap so atm it's the biggest & most precise
> as most information is collected) to locate Freerunner. It'd be great
> to have it somewhere in low levels so that GPS apps could maybe work
> on this: some daemon just provides to location information, no matter
> if it's a random guess, based on GPS, GSM cells or WLAN base stations.
> Until that, please contribute to openbmap, it's easy & fun & the next
> version of the client app will have some fixes that make using it even
> nicer.
>
>
> Thanks for everyone who have contributed to this (including the people
> of cellhunter & opencellid!)
>
> ps. is it possible to download the whole data as a single file?
>
> r
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Re: some questions before buying FreeRunner

2009-06-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
> 1-Is it possible that FR GPS does not work in IRAN ?

Don't think so, it's global and local authorities can do nothing about
it (except tell you not to use GPS)
(gsm is 900/1800).and what is GPS antenna for ?

GPS antenna is there to receive GPS signal. No antenna -> no signal.
Like on your radio: no antenna -> no signal.

> 2-Which 8 GB memory Card do you advice for booting
> openmoko+androide+debian+qtopia on FR ?and for having them beside each
> other on FR is not 4 GB memory enoughe ? what capacity is enoughe ?

I have Sandisk, works nice. And no, if you plan to run all four, I
don't recommend you to get a 4GB one..

> 3-Can other car chargers be used to charge FR ?

Yes, but you need to tell FR (software) to start the charging

> 5-What part of non buzz fixed A6 has buzz ?How can we understand if it
> is fixed or not ?

Open it and see if the resistor and capacitor are there (google for
big-c-fix) - the only way to be sure. But you can ask the distributor,
or just buy a A7 one to be sure.

> 6-Dealer has said that it's A6 FR is buzz fixed ,should i trust ? what
> can i do if he/she posted it in our country and was not buzz fixed ?

If you can't get a A7 and you want the phone then that's all you can
do. At least tuxbrain also sells buzzfixed A6 and I'd trust them: if
the start shipping not-buzzfixed A6 phones claiming they're fixed,
their sales will go down and I don't think they want it. But if they
send you a non-buzzfixed even if you ordered a fixed one send them an
angry e-mail and tell them you'll sue them in IRAN if they will not
fix your FR. That should do it..

By the way all there question e-mails would be a nice FAQ or 'read
this if you plan to buy' if someone just collected them together in
the wiki.. Would you do it?

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some questions before buying FreeRunner

2009-06-09 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God

I'll be thankful if you guide ;

1-Is it possible that FR GPS does not work in IRAN ? (gsm is
900/1800).and what is GPS antenna for ?

2-Which 8 GB memory Card do you advice for booting
openmoko+androide+debian+qtopia on FR ?and for having them beside each
other on FR is not 4 GB memory enoughe ? what capacity is enoughe ?

3-Can other car chargers be used to charge FR ?
4-Do all Bluetooth headsets work with FR ?
5-What part of non buzz fixed A6 has buzz ?How can we understand if it
is fixed or not ?
6-Dealer has said that it's A6 FR is buzz fixed ,should i trust ? what
can i do if he/she posted it in our country and was not buzz fixed ?

Regards dehqan

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OpenBmap

2009-06-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi!

I've been able to run openbmap (see opkg.org) for about a week now,
here are some experiences:

- Collecting cell id's is MUCH more easier than contributing to
openstreetmap.org: all you need to do is start the openbmap app, make
sure it has 3d fix, press the 'generate' -button (that'll be renamed
to 'start' or 'log' or something soon :) and off you go. It records
all the cells it sees. When you go inside, press 'quit' or 'stop'.
When you get connected to Internet, press 'Upload'. That's it. (ok,
before uploading you need to register at openbmap.org) -> no need to
go and analyze the saved data afterwards.

- I already discussed with Onen (#openmoko-cdevel) some issues in the
client app (= I have no idea what all the numbers mean and OTOH it'd
be nice to have it work as a daemon eating as little resources as
possible, OTOH it'd be nice to have the possibility to see a
visualization of the data collected)

- about the website www.openbmap.org - it's nice to see the servers
up&running again! I was surprised to get over 700 cells collected by
just driving a car for 250km and taking a train back and taking a bus
for 30 minutes in the city. Hard to believe I'd have seen 700 cells
but if they tell I did.. http://realtimeblog.free.fr/logins_stats.php

- Maps - this is the 'visualization' part of the project and I think
that is what makes people interested and contribute - like every FLOSS
software homepage should have 'screenshots' as one of the main menu
items. Now you can select the country, mobile network, location area
code and single cell to see the coverage there.
(http://realtimeblog.free.fr/with_osm.php?mcc=244&mnc=91&step=2 )

Since all I know is the country code and my cell operator.
- sort the country list alphabetically - people don't have any idea of
country codes (that are not the same as the phone country code:
calling to finland needs +358 but the cell country code is 244...).
- ok, I'm fine with selecting the mobile operator, that's something
most of us know - but maybe sort again alphabetically, not based on
the code none of us has ever seen..
- but selecting the location area code - give me a break! So far we
have 40 - 100 codes for single operator in Finland. If I wanted to
know what's the coverage on the area of my interest, I have to just
try to find the area I want by trying the list. And when I finally
find that, I have to go through all the single cells individually.
Nt very inspiring.

  -> I think the country should be selected by the map: it should give
the central coordinates and size to be used in the database search
that then returns the information of cells. Different operators could
be visualized by different colour. And then when I zoom in, at some
stage it'd start showing the coverage if individual cells. And then
clicking on a cell coverage area could give me the numbers: country
id, operator, location area core, cell ID etc.. The current way
expects people to want to know the coverage on one operator on one
location area, and single cell instead of finding the cells in one
area - which I really believe is the approach people would use more.

So now we're waiting to be able to use all this information collected
by three projects (opencellid, cellhunter and openbmap -> all the data
has been imported to openbmap so atm it's the biggest & most precise
as most information is collected) to locate Freerunner. It'd be great
to have it somewhere in low levels so that GPS apps could maybe work
on this: some daemon just provides to location information, no matter
if it's a random guess, based on GPS, GSM cells or WLAN base stations.
Until that, please contribute to openbmap, it's easy & fun & the next
version of the client app will have some fixes that make using it even
nicer.


Thanks for everyone who have contributed to this (including the people
of cellhunter & opencellid!)

ps. is it possible to download the whole data as a single file?

r

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Re: Community-driven redesign / new theme for Paroli

2009-06-09 Thread Shashank Bharadwaj
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, pike wrote:
> But, as I'm sketching and using the phone, a few things
> are indeed new and needed imho.
>
> - The "next", "back" paradigm doesnt really work for
>   me. I want to know *what* "next" is. "back" is not
>   always where I came from. And above that, I don't
>   always know where I am (this happens particularly
>   in the settings, currently). So I've changed "back"
>   and "next" to a virtual "path" and an "action".
>   There could be more actions, actually (eg in sms|read,
>   you can "delete" and "reply" a message). If you
>   click on an action, that should become part of
>   your path in the next screen. For example, if
>   you are in "Setting | Wifi", the main action is
>   "Scan". In the next screen, the path should be
>   "Settings | Wifi | Scan". Action and Paths are
>   CamelCased.

+1 for this idea.

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Re: Community-driven redesign / new theme for Paroli

2009-06-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
THIS IS BIG!

Thank you pike for the time you've used for this. I see that these
things have some experience and knowledge about usability in it and
I'd certainly like to see this implemented - I'm sure it's easier to
learn how to use. You're so right about the clear division of
primary&secondary etc. Awesome work with the mockups. Please join
#paroli to start learning edje, I'd guess khiraly and
vegyraupe(=mirko) are ready to help you with it.

Keep up the good work!!

Risto

ps. would be nice to get this concept in the wiki so it wouldn't be
lost in the mail archives, would you put it here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-themes



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Re: Community-driven redesign / new theme for Paroli

2009-06-09 Thread pike
Hi

> Hey great! All 'design guidelines' and things like that are great! I'd
> like you to explain more of what's happening in the screenshots. Tell
> what is new, why have you done it, what's the thinking behind it etc.

I find it more easier to explain using pictures :-)
Got a graphic mind I guess.

Take a look at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Bab-1.2-3screens.png

Any good interface has it's on "Rythm & Rhyme". On
a single screen, your eye will catch the hidden grid
and swerve around primary and secondary options in
a split second. This works subliminally - you wouldn't
even notice, but this is what makes an interface
'feel good'. This is even more true for phones, small
screen, use it with one eye and one finger in a busy
environment .. and between screens, your memory will
recognize changes in that "Rythm and Rhyme", too. Yes,
a good interface is much like a poem, or a piece of
music :-)

.. so I was trying to find a grid, a basic layout,
that fits all purposes. At the same time, this grid
should be numberfriendly, as it has to be programmed
in edje. You need "a few classes" of fonts, not a
new font on every page. Same with colors, shades, etc.

So that's basicly what this was
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:BAB-List-default-1.0-grid.png
.. but it's already outdated :-)

Such a grid should include whatever options
you might think of in the future - dialogs, extra
buttons, etc .. so that's basicly this
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:BAB-List-default-1.0.png

For example, this "big blocker bar" (a modal dialog) is not
actually used anywhere, but if it *would* be, it should be
there (there is a modal dialog in the "dial" and
when "sending" an sms, btw). Same for the "informational
bar" - a thing that should hide itself once you touch the
screen imho - its not used anywhere - but if it would
be, it should be right there. And hey, it could say
"52 messages, 4 unread", for an instance, couldnt it ? :-)

 > what is new

As little as possible :-D
But, as I'm sketching and using the phone, a few things
are indeed new and needed imho.

- The "next", "back" paradigm doesnt really work for
   me. I want to know *what* "next" is. "back" is not
   always where I came from. And above that, I don't
   always know where I am (this happens particularly
   in the settings, currently). So I've changed "back"
   and "next" to a virtual "path" and an "action".
   There could be more actions, actually (eg in sms|read,
   you can "delete" and "reply" a message). If you
   click on an action, that should become part of
   your path in the next screen. For example, if
   you are in "Setting | Wifi", the main action is
   "Scan". In the next screen, the path should be
   "Settings | Wifi | Scan". Action and Paths are
   CamelCased.


- the "panel" (the top bar) should be removed in all
   screens if we are in windowed mode imho, because you now
   get two rows of similar icons. Ergo, there can be
   nothing essential in Paroli's panel that's not in the
   Illume panel. And hence, you need a different button
   to "close" a paroli app (like "msgs") when you are
   not in full screen - because the clock should not be here.
   In fact, it should look like a "close" button: if you tap
   around Illume, you will find the "chooser" is still
   hanging around and not responding until you "close"
   the other screen.
   So that's what the funny circle is in the 3rd image at
   http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:BAB-List-default-1.0.png
   , a 'close button'.
   I also think the main screen, the launcher, should
   indicate it's waiting for the other app to quit. It
   would not harm if you are in fullscreen (since you won't see
   it) and it would be very beneficial in windowed mode.
   I have a screenshot of that, here ..

- If you look at
   http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Bab-1.2-3screens.png
   you'll see there are more ideas - and I have still more
   on paper. Most of them are optional. But I understand,
   doing something like what I sketched in the Launcher
   requires changing the whole way it works (in Python),
   not just changing edje files :-|

   The most important thing is, I think, I differentiate
   between "primary" and "secondary" options:

   The screen is divided in lines.

   Each line can only have one primary, big, white, option.
   If you click it, the background color of the whole line
   quickly hilites before the screen changes.

   A line can have several secondary (small, grey, lowercased)
   options. If you click it, only the font color quickly
   switches before the screen changes.

   I think this differentation is usefull, as it gives a user
   an idea about the "default" action - go forward - and several
   sideoptions - "delete that thing, go back" - without visually
   cluttering the screen.

Anyway .. that's a lot of text. Maybe I should get
into edje. Or maybe I should get XULRunner to work
on my phone :-D

$2c,
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Re: Community-driven redesign / new theme for Paroli

2009-06-09 Thread pike
Hi

>> We are in,
>> task 2 done  you can see and download them  at 
>> http://www.tuxbrain.com/node/19

ok - I have similar screenshots at
http://pike.kw.nl/browse/files/projects/pike/2009/om2009/parolishots

I was aiming at a more graphic redesign, so
it includes screenshots with raster keyboard
and paroli-in-illume (which imho should be
considered in the design efforts - most people
will -have to- actually use it windowed).


$2c,
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Re: Community-driven redesign / new theme for Paroli

2009-06-09 Thread pike
Hi


> Thanks for thinking and investigating time about paroli look!

Thanks for your reply - I missed it in the bulk.

> I have read your proposal, however I dont really get
> the "sizzle" part (maybe because of my weak english skills).

Well, the 'sizzle' could be anything. I'd like to
see the phone get "excited" once you start touching
it; it can be boring as dead if its laying on the table,
in fact, I'd like that. But when you touch it, ... yes,
I have a sort of erotic concept here :-)

As for the hilites - I understand there is no 'hoover';
but there is a split second before the screen actually
changes. about 0.2 seconds will be exactly enough to
give the feeling it's sizzling :-) I've seen this
behaviour in om2008 - the same green - it was exciting.

>>> I assume
>>> someone (Mirko?) is still leading on development
>>> of paroli.
> 
> That is true, Mirko is still around, and leading paroli
> development.
> Im messing with the gui here and there.
> 

OK, that's good to know. I'm actually not
sure if I'll make the dive into edje soon :-|

>> I don't like
>> edje very much from the looks of it.
> 
> Yeah, Im almost done, with the most basic and urgent
> improvements (back button everywhere).

Great - sorry - that's not what I meant - I
meant, I don't like edje as a gui language.
I was taught there.is.only.xul :-)


nice video btw !

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Re: Launcher/Home Page (alpha) Release 0.22

2009-06-09 Thread Steven **
The command Launcher pulls from the desktop file seems to have a
character limit that is too short.  I'm guessing you use 45
characters.  That's not necessarily enough...  I finally figured out
that was why one of my apps wasn't launching: Because I had used a
bunch of parameters and the launch was erroring out because Launcher
was dropping part of one of my parameters.

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Re: how dangerous Freerunner could be?

2009-06-09 Thread GNUtoo
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 22:37 +0400, ivvmm wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> koolu.com wrongly sent North American variant of devices to our European
> country in a pack. So what we got now is that devices operate only on
> 1800MHz frequency. That's twice bigger than 900MHz.
> 
> How dangerous could it be? I always carry the device near my heart
> because it is needed to for GPS to receive an accurate position.
> 
> How could GSM module be shut down truly? We all know it sends
> control-signals even if turned off.
> 
> 
> Thank you.
There was a post on the planet long time ago with the measurements of
the power of the radio waves emitted(SAR) by diverse phones including
the freerunner...and it end up in the middle of the comparison,that is
to say it was not the best but not the worse.
Denis.





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Openmoko planet go crazy???

2009-06-09 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
planet.openmoko.org Is full of very old posts form Michael Siloh (HI
Michael, wherever you are!) ,John Lee,(a year old a lot of them) and
from gecko, Talpadk a couple of monts old.


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Re: [QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:02:17 +0200
"giacomo \"giotti\" mariani"  wrote:

> 
> >> Hello,
> >> I would like to thank again all developers of QtExtended ?for your
> >> excellent work.
> >> I've some questions for you:
> >> -is there any "return key" on the Leonardo's keyboard (I'm not
> >> able to find it by myself)?
> >> 
> >
> > no
> >
> >   
> I wonder why...

because Leonardo didn't put that in, that's all :-)

 

> All I find is:
> ls -l /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/*
> -rw-r--r--1 root root 2340 Jun  1 19:54
> /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/internet.dawg
> 
> /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US:
> -rw-r--r--1 root root27988 Jun  1 19:54 common.dawg
> -rw-r--r--1 root root   497988 Jun  1 19:54 words.dawg
> 
> Are that binary files the dictionary?
>

yes, these are the files. Now I need to look at the code to find the
correct move to reactivate predictiveness ...

Franky

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Re: [openwrt] some issues..

2009-06-09 Thread Mirko Vogt
Chris Syntichakis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to compile the openwrt for the openmoko.
> 
> It seems that the tele.edje file (of paroli) is missing from the
> sources, where can I find it?
> 
> If I will not include the paroli package, I can install the openwrt on
> my freerunner, but the screen
> timeout every 2-3 sec, is there any way to get rid of this? Also, as I
> see, there is no on screen keyboard...
> 
> Thanx
> 
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Hey Chris,

right now a very early version of paroli is packaged.
We're working on getting a recent version packaged and I think it will 
be commited within the next days.
There's work going on related to the Openmoko-stuff right now on lot's 
of parts in trunk, so it might be possible that some upgrades/changes 
break/broke older parts (in this case it might be paroli) which are 
going to be upgraded later anyway.
In case you can't/won't wait, please mention the revision of your 
working copy and and the exact error-message you get when compiling with 
"make V=99".

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[openwrt] some issues..

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Syntichakis
Hi,

I am trying to compile the openwrt for the openmoko.

It seems that the tele.edje file (of paroli) is missing from the
sources, where can I find it?

If I will not include the paroli package, I can install the openwrt on
my freerunner, but the screen
timeout every 2-3 sec, is there any way to get rid of this? Also, as I
see, there is no on screen keyboard...

Thanx

Chris

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Re: [QtExtended] Latest and greatest, progress mail 12

2009-06-09 Thread Fabio Locati
In latest and greates progress mail 12 gprs should work without any issue ;)

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Filip Onkelinx wrote:
> Hi Rene, Franky,
>
> I've been using GRPS on QtE for several months without major issues. I
> remember I once had to create the device file /dev/ppp
> On my current (old) QtE image, ls -l /dev/ppp gives me:
>
> crw--- 1 root root 108,0  Jun 8 16:49 /dev/ppp
>
> you might want to check if you have this device file, and if not try to
> create it with mknod. (you will probably need to add it to the startup
> script )
>
> cheers,
>
> Filip.
>
> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:58:58 +0200, Franky Van Liedekerke
>  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:43:40 -0500
>> Rene Horn  wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried out this version.  I'm still having issues with GPRS.
>>> I'd like to be able to fix the issue myself if I could, or at least
>>> point out a possible fix.  I know it can work because it does under
>>> SHR-Unstable.
>>>
>>> Where should I be looking for this?  Where is all the GPRS code
>>> located? Where are the scripts?
>>>
>>> Rene
>>
>> I never tried gprs myself (don't have an account), but you can always
>> look at the script in
>>
>> /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/bin/ppp-network
>>
>> The pppd daemon seems to be launched by this script via using sudo. You
>> might want to check that the needed ppp modules are up and running.
>> Also check if the ppp packages are installed.
>>
>> The dialup source is in src/plugins/network/dialing
>> Also read the hint mentioned here:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg33030.html
>> and a small howto also here:
>> http://journal.wjsullivan.net/232100.html
>>
>> If you find anything, please let us know, so we can improve the user
>> experience for everybody!
>>
>> Franky
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Re: [QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread giacomo "giotti" mariani

>> Hello,
>> I would like to thank again all developers of QtExtended ?for your
>> excellent work.
>> I've some questions for you:
>> -is there any "return key" on the Leonardo's keyboard (I'm not able to
>> find it by myself)?
>> 
>
> no
>
>   
I wonder why...
>> -why, in that keyboard, there are 2 "u" keys?
>> 
>
> a typo from Leonardo :-)
>
>   
asd...
>> -which is, now, the right name for the distribution? QtExtendedImproved
>> or QtMoko or another one or both?
>> 
>
> qtmoko
>
>   
OK
>> -I can't remember how to switch between predictive and not predictive
>> keyboards, would you please suggest it again?
>> 
>
> slide diagonally, but whether it is left-down to right-up or the other
> way around, I don't remember right now. Also for now, there's no
> visual feedback.
> And more: my install script removes the dictionaries (I think), so no
> prediction if those are removed of course ...
>
>   
All I find is:
ls -l /opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/*
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2340 Jun  1 19:54
/opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/internet.dawg

/opt/Trolltech/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US:
-rw-r--r--1 root root27988 Jun  1 19:54 common.dawg
-rw-r--r--1 root root   497988 Jun  1 19:54 words.dawg

Are that binary files the dictionary?

>> -is it possible, using Qmplayer in normal mode (i.e. non in full
>> screen), to have the video centered instead of in the up-left corner?
>> 
>
> If you figure out parameter for mplayer to do this, then i can
> implement this in qmplayer.
>
> Radek
>
>   
I'm searching around...not that easy :-)


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Re: Mer on OpenMoko devices ?

2009-06-09 Thread RzR www.rzr.online.fr
Hi,

With previous release of goshawknest (clap clap clap)

I was able to make a demo and to provide a bootable image of mer for freerunner
download it to your sdcard and boot it  Or check video demo at :

http://www.newlc.com/en/mer-best-maemo-debianubuntu-mobiles-watch-freerunner-demo

Also:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Hardware/Freerunner#install_.2F_download
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mer

feel free to mirror the file

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Re: Launcher/Home Page (alpha) Release 0.22

2009-06-09 Thread Bernd Prünster
Michal Brzozowski schrieb:
> c_c, this app rocks. I'd like to know how to put it in the place of 
> the default illume home page, so it's the first screen when you boot 
> the phone. It's much better.
>
> Btw, some icons are missing in launcher, while they show up in illume 
> home. For example contacts, dialer, messages. PhoneLog shows up ok. 
> All that shows up is the caption of the program.
>
> Michal
the reason is, because these icons are under /usr/share/icons//.../...
you can fix it by copying them to /usr/share/applications

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[Hackable:1] Bluetooth: How to connect with laptop? (ubuntu 9.04)

2009-06-09 Thread Steffen Winkler
Hi,

I hope someone can answer this question: How can I connect my neo with
my laptop per bluetooth?

When I enable th BT connection ower the powerButton menu my laptop can
see the neo and the neo can see my laptop.

But every try to connect the two fails.

On the neo I tried:
hcitool cc 
there comes no message after that and the two are not connected

From my laptop I tried it over the GUI, but here it asks for a PIN and I
don't know what PIN the H:1 has?! Or where I can configure it.

Hope someone can help me.


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Re: Linux International and Openmoko

2009-06-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> If the Openmoko community is interested in pursuing this, I would be
> happy to discuss LI's plans further with you, and how Openmoko could fit
> into this.

I think putting gta02-core and similar projects under the wings of
LI is a wonderful idea ! We already discussed some of this a few
days ago. Below are some hopefully not too random thoughts on the
things a project like gta02-core needs and how they fit with what I
think an organization like LI can provide.

For technical projects like gta02-core, one of the most important
roles of such an organization would be to enter contracts and to
maintain rights that exist beyond and across projects. For example,
if we need to enter an NDA for some purpose, also follow-on
projects should be able to use this NDA without having to
re-negotiate it (which can be very difficult if not impossible.)

I'm not familiar with the subtleties that distinguish the various
forms of organization, and their impact on commercial activities,
but I think we can identify a few types of such activities that are
likely to be necessary:

For projects like gta02-core and possible successors, it would be
important to purchase goods (e.g., components), contract services
(e.g., PCB making or an SMT run), sell products (e.g., boards or
complete phones), and to save some of the revenue for later
activities (e.g., purchase of material).

Furthermore, it should be possible to hire or contract people for
roles that are beyond the scope of mere volunteer activities.

The international chapters certainly resonate well with the global
interest in open phone development that we've experienced with
Openmoko. Regarding international members, is there any special
paperwork they need to do to join LI as members or to perform
tasks in which they represent LI (or a sub-group ?) to some extent,
e.g., negotiate a contract ?

If none of the items above raises a red flag, I'd say this should
be an excellent match. The experience of LI would help projects
like gta02-core to establish a solid organizational framework, and
the prominence of LI would help gain visibility, attract
participants, and open doors for industry contacts.

When these bustling projects are successful in bringing openness,
both for hard- and software, into new areas and to new users, this
would in turn be just what LI aims for.

So I'd like to thank you for the invitation, and I'm very excited
about the prospect of joining forces with LI.

- Werner

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Re: [QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread HouYu Li
Yes. now qtmoko

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Radek Polak  wrote:

> giacomo "giotti" mariani wrote:
>
> > -is it possible, using Qmplayer in normal mode (i.e. non in full
> > screen), to have the video centered instead of in the up-left corner?
>
> If you figure out parameter for mplayer to do this, then i can
> implement this in qmplayer.
>
> Radek
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Re: Launcher/Home Page (alpha) Release 0.22

2009-06-09 Thread Michal Brzozowski
c_c, this app rocks. I'd like to know how to put it in the place of the
default illume home page, so it's the first screen when you boot the phone.
It's much better.

Btw, some icons are missing in launcher, while they show up in illume home.
For example contacts, dialer, messages. PhoneLog shows up ok. All that shows
up is the caption of the program.

Michal

2009/6/6 c_c 

>
> Hi,
>
> Cameron Frazier wrote:
> >
> >>in c (derived from [1], look at the bottom):
> >>elm_scroller_bounce_set(self.obj, h_bounce, v_bounce)
> >
>  Thanks. That helped. I needed to update my elementary libs on the laptop
> too. So here's the latest version - without the bouncing - and yes it's a
> lot simpler to use.
>
> http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3034171/launcher_0.22_arm.ipk
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Re: Leaving Openmoko and continuing with Openmoko

2009-06-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi Wolfgang and thank you for the work you've done to make this
happen, what we've achieved so far.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> I will continue to work with Sean and Openmoko Inc. in an outsourcing role.
>
> In parallel, me and other ex-Openmoko employees are trying to regroup
> outside of the company to add new flavors to the Openmoko family. Stay
> tuned for news as this unfolds, we will need your support.

This sound's interesting. I hope this doesn't create a parallel
structure to the planned foundation, but you'd be a part of it. If you
ask me, leaders to have the freedom to take the community to where you
want it to go, not where investors etc want it to go.

> If you look at today's best consumer products, they are the results of
> endless polishing by a tightly controlled group of people and companies.
> The results are amazing - Apple products come to my mind, Blackberry and
> others.
> Unfortunately as of today the end user experience of a Neo Freerunner is
> far away from that :-)

I must agree - I was just reading the latest releases by Apple and I
admit being jealous with all the new features & hardware. And all the
cool apps they have - OK, Linux world has thousands of apps but
they're designed for keyboard, mouse and big screen, not a small
portable device with touch screen.

> Zoom forward and I can see how freely formed groups of companies and
> individuals collaborate in the Creative Commons ShareAlike way, on an
> equal playing field, to make products that are both better and cheaper
> for a particular user group than anything else out there.

Waiting this to happen ... :)

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to see what happens with the
company-independent community, how it will organize itself and what's
the direction where we'll be going. Keep up the good work (and I
really appreciate it that you former  OM people stay in the project,
it's very valuable as you have all the background information about
the device and the project that the community can only guess..)

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Re: [QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Radek Polak
giacomo "giotti" mariani wrote:

> -is it possible, using Qmplayer in normal mode (i.e. non in full
> screen), to have the video centered instead of in the up-left corner?

If you figure out parameter for mplayer to do this, then i can
implement this in qmplayer.

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Re: [QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
Hi,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:41 AM, giacomo "giotti"
mariani wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to thank again all developers of QtExtended  for your
> excellent work.
> I've some questions for you:
> -is there any "return key" on the Leonardo's keyboard (I'm not able to
> find it by myself)?

no

> -why, in that keyboard, there are 2 "u" keys?

a typo from Leonardo :-)

> -which is, now, the right name for the distribution? QtExtendedImproved
> or QtMoko or another one or both?

qtmoko

> -I can't remember how to switch between predictive and not predictive
> keyboards, would you please suggest it again?

slide diagonally, but whether it is left-down to right-up or the other
way around, I don't remember right now. Also for now, there's no
visual feedback.
And more: my install script removes the dictionaries (I think), so no
prediction if those are removed of course ...

> -is it possible, using Qmplayer in normal mode (i.e. non in full
> screen), to have the video centered instead of in the up-left corner?

Radek can answer this one.

Franky

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Leaving Openmoko and continuing with Openmoko

2009-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Hi everybody,
today I wanted to make it official that I left my employed role at 
Openmoko Inc. two weeks ago. I worked as Sean's lead for all engineering 
activities for over 1.5 years, and have to say it was a hell of a ride!
Thanks a lot to Sean and all former and current Openmoko employees, as 
well as our community and customers, for giving me such a challenging 
and also rewarding environment to work in. It was an honor to work with 
all of you!

I will continue to work with Sean and Openmoko Inc. in an outsourcing role.

In parallel, me and other ex-Openmoko employees are trying to regroup 
outside of the company to add new flavors to the Openmoko family. Stay 
tuned for news as this unfolds, we will need your support.

The key breakthrough Openmoko achieved in my mind is to kickstart a 
collaborative way to develop consumer electronics. Sean is yet to thank 
enough for the groundbreaking and truly visionary entrepreneurial role 
he played in that.
When I joined Openmoko, I had never heard about Creative Commons. Now I 
am meeting with semiconductor companies lobbying them to publish more 
documentation under CC licenses. And I am blown away by Werner's 
gta02-core project which has all schematics and layout files under a 
Creative Commons ShareAlike license from day 1, and is using only Free 
Software tools.
If you look at today's best consumer products, they are the results of 
endless polishing by a tightly controlled group of people and companies. 
The results are amazing - Apple products come to my mind, Blackberry and 
others.
Unfortunately as of today the end user experience of a Neo Freerunner is 
far away from that :-)
But that doesn't mean that the visionary role Openmoko is playing leads 
in the wrong direction. It just needs more time. As consumer electronics 
become more complex, for example interact more over radio interfaces, it 
will increasingly become harder for a tightly setup and controlled group 
to make great end user products. It will be slow and expensive.

Zoom forward and I can see how freely formed groups of companies and 
individuals collaborate in the Creative Commons ShareAlike way, on an 
equal playing field, to make products that are both better and cheaper 
for a particular user group than anything else out there.
We have a long way to go on this path, Openmoko the company as well as 
the community and new offspring companies need to stay together and keep 
the faith. You can count me in.
I am reachable and will stay active under my wolfg...@openmoko.org 
account, or my private account wspr...@q-ag.de.

Feel free to contact me for anything Openmoko or Freerunner related, 
ideas for new collaboratively developed products, etc.
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[QtExtended] Leonardo's keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread giacomo "giotti" mariani
Hello,
I would like to thank again all developers of QtExtended  for your
excellent work.
I've some questions for you:
-is there any "return key" on the Leonardo's keyboard (I'm not able to
find it by myself)?
-why, in that keyboard, there are 2 "u" keys?
-which is, now, the right name for the distribution? QtExtendedImproved
or QtMoko or another one or both?
-I can't remember how to switch between predictive and not predictive
keyboards, would you please suggest it again?
-is it possible, using Qmplayer in normal mode (i.e. non in full
screen), to have the video centered instead of in the up-left corner?

Thank you very much
Giacomo

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Re: Paroli introduction video

2009-06-09 Thread joakim
Laszlo KREKACS  writes:

> Dear list,
>
> Im toying with the idea, of creating a Paroli introduction video,
> where I present all the
> basic phone functionality of paroli. Short of a tutorial, where I can
> point the newcomers to.
>
> I have began to shoot the video, and made about 5 min, where I needed
> to cut off.
> The video is not finished, and I will reshoot it, as it is blurry, and
> shacked the camera a lot.
>
> However, I will be not able reshoot it before wednesday or later next week.
>
> So Im posting this *work-in-progress* 10% made video to the community
> hoping that
> somebody with willing to record the audio will join me, and others
> will have some
> feedbacks too. I also hoping, if some of you have done video editing
> before, and
> can adjust the background sound, with voice, and finalise the video
> will step up, and
> help me.
>
> Otherwise I will reshoot the video next week, and put online as-is. I
> hope it will
> be less blurry (the lcd is broken in my camera, so cant see anything
> while filming;-|)
>
> What I really like in this video, is how speedy paroli is. There is
> not much waiting, the
> video is realtime, was absolutely no editing in it.
>
> http://www.vimeo.com/5029019
>
> Feedbacks?

I really liked this video. It made me smile, and got me interested in
Paroli. I liked the little surprises, the way the signs were used
creatively. Constructive critisicm: please improve the readability of
the signs by improving contrast in them. Dont use "hollowed out"
lettering. I had difficulty reading some of the signs. I still think the
signs should be hand-made though, it adds to the flavour. Maybe you
could make a hand-drawn skin for Paroli? I would use it :)

> Laszlo
>
> PS: bear in mind, that this is my first video. Dont be too harsh.
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