Re: Problem compiling openmoko with MokoMakefile

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Chandler
Gary Oliver wrote: I've been trying to get the openmoko build (using the super Makefile) to go for the last few days without complete success. I believe I've followed the instructions with respect to the system requirements, and the build DOES get through about 12 hours of work (about 400meg

Re: OpenMoko - SoC--- is there a mentor?

2007-03-25 Thread Karsten Ensinger
Hi Guy, the linchpin of you concept is the keyboard layout. If you use unsuited layouts initially, no one will invest the time to get it right for themself, because one can't easily experience the advantages of the concept when making first impressions. Although I am not an expert for language

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Sunday 25 March 2007 01:16:46 Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. Essentially any laser device powerful enough to be useful has no place in a home which may ever

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Elrond
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:16:46AM +0800, Clare Johnstone wrote: Dear all, This frightens me in my role as mother, grandmother etc, i.e. a representative of the public to which you hope to sell this phone. Essentially any laser device powerful enough to be useful has no place in a home which

Wiki update: bootable usb stock emulation

2007-03-25 Thread Florent THIERY
Hi I just updated/developed my previous idea of using the transflash as a bootable device (mass storage mode). http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:Bootable_USB_device_emulation * What do you think? * Could somebody owning a device test it? * If you have pointers to other resources, please

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia niedziela, 25 marca 2007, Elrond napisaƂ: But as all laser pointers are battery powered, what's about just not putting batteries in the stylus? _Guessing_ from koen's unboxing the neo pictures, the batteries are shipped seperately, so you just don't install them in the first place and

Re: UI long term development perspective: physics engine

2007-03-25 Thread adrian cockcroft
The physics comes in if you give the slider mass and intertia. Then it accelerates and decelerates depending upon how hard you push it and how much friction there is. The acceleration is driven by the difference in position of the touch point and the slider as you move the touch point and the

Re: Problem compiling openmoko with MokoMakefile

2007-03-25 Thread Gary Oliver
Mark Chandler wrote: Gary Oliver wrote: I've been trying to get the openmoko build (using the super Makefile) to go for the last few days without complete success. ... I had the same problem today. Rod W. let me know that there's now a fix in place for it. a make update brought in the

Re: No stylus on V1 release?

2007-03-25 Thread Clare Johnstone
Hi Elrond, Thank you for that. It is a partial solution to my concern about children. I am still hoping for a stylus that is part of the phone, for convenience reasons. The suggestions about an alternative back were promising. My current phone has the stylus in a slot at the back and it is

Re: Compressed SMS (and other text messages)

2007-03-25 Thread Tehn Yit Chin
One of the things that I have just received recently is that, somehow, the network detected that I had a phone that was not able to receive a MMS. It just sent me a text message with a web address in it to retrieve it. This implementation is not too good as it immediacy of SMS is lost. Can the