Re: opensource aerial photography project (was Re: OM Camera - a new angle)

2007-09-19 Thread Thomas Szukala
Robin Paulson wrote: On 19/09/2007, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 19:12, Ian Stirling wrote: It must have wi-max, and be able to fly up to several kilometers, to take pictures for use with the OM mapping system. Need to integrate with these guys...

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Thomas Wood
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you really say either gnome or is wasted effort and should be discontinued? Or vim/gnome,linux/bsd,gecko/webkit/mysql/postgres... Yes, it's my personal belief that these projects all represent wasted effort and that if they

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Jonathan Spooner
Thomas Wood wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you really say either gnome or is wasted effort and should be discontinued? Or vim/gnome,linux/bsd,gecko/webkit/mysql/postgres... Yes, it's my personal belief that these projects all represent wasted

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:00:51 Giles Jones wrote: Typically the argument for QT is ease of programming, there's a good IDE called KDevelop. GTK's argument typically is that it's GPL and faster. Except Qt nowadays actually is GPL (GTK+ being only LGPL), to be more precise :)

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 10:28:55 Jonathan Spooner wrote: I didn't realise Qtopia was */proprietary/* It's no longer, it's fully GPL now. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=ensa=Xoi=spellresnum=0ct=resultcd=1 comments on preferring QT for the quality docs and IDE. I'd rather plug

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Stirling
ian douglas wrote: Tilman Baumann wrote: The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to regions/postcodes or such. If you have this information, you could do all sorts of crazy stuff. But i doubt these data would be very easy to get. I've seen it at another contract I

Re: dialer suggestion

2007-09-19 Thread ramsesoriginal
Ok, as i already said some times, i think the best would be to have a single app that would allow a simple templating. It could go from some in-deep template=app-system, where the numbers are sned through dbus, to a simple webkit-based(if we already have it, why dont use it?)

Reminder: OpenExpo Switzerland

2007-09-19 Thread Esra Kummer
Hi Tomorrow will Micahel Lauer from the OpenMoko Team at the OpenExpo in Zürich (Switzerland) speak about the project. You need a Ticket (it's free). It's at 11 am. http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2007-zuerich/ Hope to see some of you there Cheers Esra

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
My thoughts that competition has it's advantages and both of the technologies will find their fans. But Trolltech and Openmoko should cooperate with each other first of all in terms of integration of PIM data. Do you really need dual-booting (or other possibility to start either Qtopia or

Re: OM Camera - a new angle

2007-09-19 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:12:04 Ian Stirling wrote: I'd want several megapixels, ability to take at least several second pictures, for use around dusk. Optical zoom would be a big plus. LCD size not hugely important. Wifi and bluetooth would be a big plus. USB-host too, to enable

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Calls for more collaboration are quite common, but I can't help but feel that people assume it is easier than it actually is. There is the GMAE effort which tries do achieve exactly what is mentioned here, which is further codesharing between all these efforts. Whats holding up collaboration is

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Darwin
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you really say either gnome or is wasted effort and should be discontinued? Or vim/gnome,linux/bsd,gecko/webkit/mysql/postgres... Yes, it's my personal belief that these projects all represent wasted effort and that if they

RE: Reminder: OpenExpo Switzerland

2007-09-19 Thread Oliver
If you can, please film it and put it up on google video or via a torrent! The community craves video talks! /Oliver ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] This is something someone else touched on. If you're writing an application, abstract all the complicated stuff away from the UI code, then you can make whatever kind of UI you want. NetworkManager I think is a perfect example

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread David Pottage
On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:00 pm, Ian Stirling wrote: ian douglas wrote: Tilman Baumann wrote: The biggest challenge would be a mapping from gps coordinates to regions/postcodes or such. If you have this information, you could do all sorts of crazy stuff. But i doubt these data would be

Re: OM Camera - a new angle

2007-09-19 Thread Ian Stirling
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 20:12:04 Ian Stirling wrote: I'd want several megapixels, ability to take at least several second pictures, for use around dusk. Optical zoom would be a big plus. LCD size not hugely important. Wifi and bluetooth would be a big plus. USB-host

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread Giles Jones
David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or the like. In the UK, postcode (zipcode) data is restricted by copyright, and the post office makes money selling licenses to users. Even if we could get the data, we could not

Re: [-SPAM-] Re: application idea

2007-09-19 Thread andy
Just wondering if there is a reason for the [-SPAM-] in the subject line? Andy On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:11:30 GMT, Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : But is the data freely available, or is it constrained by copyright or the like. In the UK,

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Joshua Layne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is something someone else touched on. If you're writing an application, abstract all the complicated stuff away from the UI code, then you can make whatever kind of UI you want. NetworkManager I think is a perfect example of this. It would be good to have a

Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread Krzysztof Kajkowski
Hi! I posted on my site: http://www.openmoko.org.pl some thoughs and about 30 screen shots of what I think are the most interesting Qtopia features. I'd recommend anyone who has a phone to give Qtopia a try because it is very mature and nicely made piece of software. Anyone else may visit

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Lorn Potter
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:58:00 Lorn Potter wrote: Not X11 like all other systems. This has better performance and is in my eyes the perfect solution for embedded devices. There is no great performance difference between x11 and fb. As long as X11 renders to FB,

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
As long as X11 renders to FB, that's true. However, with the GPU in GTA02 that may not be true at all as in fact, Mickey mentioned on IRC yesterday that fb operations may well be *slower* on GTA02 than on GTA01. I don't know enough about the differences between Qt and Qtopia (aside of the fact

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 20:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, Sato is not a mobile phone framework in any sense at all. It does not include any applications or services that would make a mobile phone useful. Sato is simply a visual style. Strange, the description on

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
Firstly, Sato is not a mobile phone framework in any sense at all. It does not include any applications or services that would make a mobile phone useful. Sato is simply a visual style. Strange, the description on http://www.pokylinux.org/ says: Sato is our experimental

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Rod Whitby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how Linux graphics stacks work. ... I will now try and explain how I understand it works and please, PLEASE correct me where I'm wrong! :-) That is the most concise, clear and understandable explanation I have ever seen

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
X provides an OpenGL API. So if you want to do fancy stuff like Compiz, you do it with OpenGL. X does not however provide an OpenGL ES API, neither does GDK. Qtopia on the other hand does allow OpenGL ES integration. In fact Beryl/Compiz-type effects and composition is already avaliable on

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 20:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I mentioned earlier that cairo uses Xrender to copy compose rasterized graphics onto the screen. Some graphics hardware can accelerate some of the XRender operations, however, in X.org it seems the current driver model makes

cheap international roaming/wi-fi calls

2007-09-19 Thread Robin Paulson
this company are launching a service for cheap roaming deals in various countries around the world. interestingly they are also offering voip using available wi-fi connections, similar to the t-mobile hotspot, for 1.2 use cent a minutes. no word on seamless hand-off between the two though

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Lorn Potter
Thomas Wood wrote: All in all, the great thing about OpenMoko and the Neo1973 is that you're free to choose whatever path you wish to take. If you want to use Qtopia on your Neo1973 then you are more than welcome to do so! There are many many different Linux distributions and probably almost as

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X does not however provide an OpenGL ES API, neither does GDK. Qtopia on the other hand does allow OpenGL ES integration. ... I suspect this is a moot point anyway as I doubt we'll ever see an OpenGL ES library/driver for the SMedia. I

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (with the wrong kind of word-wrap, unfortunately): X is client server architecture which uses sockets. The server draws things on behalf of the clients. Rather than clients having to understand the X protocol, Xlib was developed to

Neo 1973 certification in Russia (Rostest)

2007-09-19 Thread fic
I want to have Neo1973 in Russia. AFAIK there is a problem about certification in Rostest. I can discover certification procedure and prices from Rostest. I wrote following email at Rostest (in Russian): Greetings I have 3 questions about cellular phones certification: Corean company FIC

Re: Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread Jeremy G
I would be so disappointed if the OpenMoko devs gave up. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about Qtopia on the Neo, but I'm more interested in having options. I'm the type of user who loves to play with distros on my computers; being able to swap mobile OSes from OpenMoko to Qtopia to Sun's

RE: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
And there are already plans for someone to do the necessary XRender coding to support GTA02. That's fantastic news! Why on earth did Harold say that the fact that an accelerated kdrive was being written couldn't be disclosed? What's the problem in telling the community? Not that it matters

Re: Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread John Locke
Jeremy G wrote: I would be so disappointed if the OpenMoko devs gave up. Huh? I hadn't heard any indication anyone was thinking of doing so... Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about Qtopia on the Neo, but I'm more interested in having options. I'm the type of user who loves to play with

RE: Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread thomas.cooksey
Two complete distributions you can install and run on the same hardware? Both free? (not counting Sun since I can't get my paws on that one...) That's the real revolution here, and I would say this proves Sean's point of doing this in the first place... Can't agree more, the whole idea of a

Re: Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread Doug Sutherland
My hope is that this marks the end of closed phones. Not a chance. The providers want custom firmware that leads you to their pay per use service, pay per item content, the recurring charge subscriptions, and the associated data charges. The relationship between providers and phone

Re: Screen shots of Qtopia on Neo and some thoughts

2007-09-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski
Jeremy G pisze: I would be so disappointed if the OpenMoko devs gave up. Don't get me That would be horrible :-/ I think Qtopia is finally and fully open to gain some new developers from our community. Because of it maturity I suppose some of Openmoko developers would be interested in

Re: Neo 1973 certification in Russia (Rostest)

2007-09-19 Thread Bartlomiej Zdanowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: Corean company FIC releases Neo 1973 smartphone: Sorry - FIC is from Taiwan. -- *Bartlomiej Zdanowski* Programmer Product Research Development Department AutoGuard S.A. Place of registration: Regional Court for the Capital City of Warsaw Registration no.: