tangoGPS 0.99.4 - now more sports fun, revive your Freerunner

2010-06-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi, long time no see. A new release of tangoGPS is out with some major stuff plenty of little improvements, still getting even a bit faster and snappier here and there. Major stuff is support for heart rate monitors, based on some patches sent by Tobias Prousa. If you are using your freerunner

Re: Forking TangoGPS - a digest why this is a silly fork

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Bauer
, easy to use and user oriented app will continue :) Marcus Bauer - Lead developer of tangoGPS - ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [QtMoko] How to install tangoGPS?

2010-04-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:20:22 +0300 Margo keegiv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How should I install tangoGPS on qtmoko? I did: # apt-get install libexif12 libcurl3-gnutls libgconf2-4 gpsd # sed -i 's/DEVICES=/DEVICES=\/dev\/ttySAC1/' /etc/default/gpsd # sed -i

Re: [QtMoko] How to install tangoGPS?

2010-04-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:27:54 +0300 Margo keegiv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Margo, which version is your gpsd? (gpsd -V) From 2.92 onward the API changed and the next version of tangoGPS will handle this. In general you can simply downgrade gpsd to = 2.90 without loosing anything.

Re: [QtMoko] How to install tangoGPS?

2010-04-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:54:57 +0300 Margo keegiv...@gmail.com wrote: Can you telnet or nc to localhost port 2947, i.e. either:  telnet localhost 2947 or  nc localhost 2947 and if this succeeds, type 'r' followed by enter. You should see somthing like this: ~$ telnet localhost

how to contribute to open source projects

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:19:26 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: [...] Let me summarize: * you are well aware that forks are potentially damaging * you wrote one patch that was not accepted * now you spread fud and threaten to damage the tangoGPS project Well okay, you

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:47:55 +0300 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind if there was an unofficial, non-endorsed version control system and mailing list as well. Essentially it is the constant threads about forks that have been started and fuelled over and over again by

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi Stefan before it gets lost in all the other discussions: I'd still be happy to integrate this. Remarks: * it must be usable for people that have not signed for the 30$ premium account * everything must work from the user interface, command line is not an option * no python

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:32:59 +0200 Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: I guess with those prerequisites I won't make any geocaching submission soon - while all the features are usable as long as you have obtained a GPX file with all the data, the conversion to an sqlite3 db is done on

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:02:05 -0400 Stephen Pape srp...@gmail.com wrote: Aces in your sleeve? You mean you're keeping the development process intentionally closed to discourage forkers? What? I happily explain it again to you: forks are potentially damaging to any project. Here and actually

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi Stephen, thanks for your feedback - especially as you are a programmer as you once stated on the openmoko mailing list [1]. On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:36:38 -0400 Stephen Pape srp...@gmail.com wrote: but I couldn't find any useful results with Google. Dang! I have exactly the same problem

Re: how to contribute to open source projects

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello Rui, you certainly know that I value your opinion a lot. Just the other day there was a storm going on about a remark of Scott James Remnant from Ubuntu who is an outstanding developer, very much committed to advancing Ubuntu. People who have never done any contribution flooded the

Re: tangoGPS community development, patches (was: tangoGPS magnify patch)

2010-04-12 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:19:25 -0400 Stephen Pape srp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay. I'm not sure what you're getting at, or why you're completely changing the subject to make a personal attack on me over an argument involving software development practices. So when you use Google it is okay and

tangoGPS is a very successful user orienteted map and gps viewer

2010-04-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:59:04 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: tangoGPS has a community of more than 100.000 users, of more than 25 distributions, of people packaging it, people twittering about it, people blogging about it, people discussing it in forums... The

qualitiy is important for tangoGPS

2010-04-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:29:15 +0200 Sander van Grieken san...@3v8.net wrote: No. Just email your patches to Marcus Bauer. Expect no reply nor use of patches. But, you don't have the right to complain. You have the right to fork, though. Well, looks like you are a bit upset that your patch

tangoGPS and good user experience

2010-04-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:06:12 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Currently I only have a set of patches that add support for libgps. tangoGPS has started with libgps and around version 0.7 switched away due to too many bugs. What finally triggered the switch was the fact that

tangoGPS magnify patch

2010-04-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:06:48 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I have a patch that makes it possible to scale the details on maps (e.g.: text, icons, line-widths) and change the amount of detail shown without zooming the map; So, when you select `fewer, bigger

Re: tangoGPS and good user experience

2010-04-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:01:23 +0200 Gilles Filippini p...@debian.org wrote: Timo Juhani Lindfors a écrit , Le 11/04/2010 20:29: Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com writes: tangoGPS has started with libgps and around version 0.7 switched away due to too many bugs. What finally triggered

Re: OM future

2010-02-24 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:14:39 -0500 Iain B. Findleton ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody out there know what the financial envelope for, say, a run of 100 Neos with the accumulated hardware improvements, g3, and double the memory would be? I am thinking a custom application here... if

Re: tangogps google satellite url

2010-02-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:42:13 +0100 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm a happy tangogps user, but it seems like google changed their satellite url once again. for google maps I use http://mt0.google.com/vt/v=w2.97hl=nlx=%dy=%dz=%ds=G and this one still works could

Re: tangoGPS 0.99.3 is out

2010-02-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:44:00 + Juergen Schinker ba1...@homie.homelinux.net wrote: awesome work! can you supply also the pkg for hackable:1 please. Afaik David 'Deubeuliou' is already working on it and it should be apt-get installable in the next two or three days. Can you also supply a

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-02-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:00:20 + Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6 January 2010 11:11, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: line.  (I plan to make a donation shortly.) Finally getting around to this - but I don't see a Donate button anywhere on the tangogps

tangoGPS 0.99.3 is out

2010-02-14 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi, tangoGPS is out with lots of speed improvements and a lot less of CPU usage. Moreover the speed display is now set in pixels and no longer in points - especially on SHR that should result in lot smaller digits. (not configurable yet). Enjoy, Marcus

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-08 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:12:45 +0100 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:36:21 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: The community shall be the judge and point me where

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-08 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi Joseph, thanks for your words, they are very much appreciated! Marcus On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:48:54 + Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: I have founded tangogps and spent over 2000 hours of development on it so quite naturally I am the SABDFL of tangogps. And it is a

Re: Some questions about TangoGPS

2010-01-08 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 00:01:22 +0330 dehqan65 dehqa...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway some questions remained : 1 - There is an option that lets tangogps users selecting using Google sat maps , but some problems : A - Is not using google maps under TangoGPS against google's EULA ? You have to ask a

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:58:42 -0800 (PST) vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: Marcus Bauer wrote: I've looked inside the TangoGPS config file (~.gconf/apps/tangogps/%gconf.xml), but I couldn't see any options to set the font size. I was in vi, and if I don't change anything, I

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
it, from people sending feedback, from people spreading the word because they like it. Thanks to all those that have one way or other contributed to tangoGPS - your energy was and is well appreciated and put to good use :) Marcus Bauer Developer of tangoGPS - the fast and user friendly map viewer

Re: tangogps 0.99.1

2010-01-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi Vasco, On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:22 + Vasco Névoa vasco.ne...@sapo.pt wrote: Hi Marcus and all others. Is there a way to remove or make smaller the speed indicator (big numbers) on tangogps? I'll make that configurable in one of the next versions of tangoGPS. I find it very

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:39:53 -0800 (PST) vancel35 van...@thespazcat.com wrote: I've noticed that each version that I've upgraded of TangoGPS has increased the font size for the speed display on the map screen. Nope. I just had a quick look: it was 72pt in the beginning and now is at 60pt

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:21 +0800 Bill bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I gave feed back to Martin that the digits were too large (the tangogps developer) Hi Borat, I will tell Martin once I meet him :p but the digits keep getting bigger each version (it seems :( They got smaller. I may change

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:52:13 +0200 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: As there are now many Tangogps patches that seem to struggle to get to the official tangogps Stop your FUDing, Risto. There is a great video about poisonous people on google lectures made by the devs of svn and you,

Re: TangoGPS font size for speed indicator

2010-01-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:49 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On the FR in landscape mode, the digits (at anything over 100km/h - (spent two long days travelling at ~110km/h speed recently!) take up almost a quarter of the screen (in X and Y) - I just tried with the suggested

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:03:01 +0100 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net wrote: So if something should be changed, than it should be tangogps and allother apps that uses png files to use a vector format like navit does which is way better for this purpose. Yes, and the earth is flat too ;-) As it was

tangogps 0.99.1

2009-11-22 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hi out there, the latest release of tangoGPS is out. New features include: * a revamped layout - better usage of screen estate on the Freerunner and much nice layout on netbooks and laptops * route tracks - you can now fetch route tracks from the web using three different webservices

Re: tangogps 0.99.1

2009-11-22 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:19:01 +0100 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.d...@gmail.com wrote: And SHR unstable users can already just do opkg update opkg upgrade to get new TangoGPS :) I am impressed! :) Marcus ___ Openmoko community mailing list

tangoGPS 0.9.9 (was Re: tangogps 0.9.8)

2009-11-04 Thread Marcus Bauer
fixed and as a goodie GPX track load added Marcus On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:29 -0500 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Maksim 'max_posedon' Melnikau maxpose...@gmail.com writes: SHR version (mrmoku/unstable feed) segfaults for me, on try to download map (4 levels): [...]

Re: tangogps 0.9.8

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:41:22 +0100 Pieter Colpaert freep...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Markus, Thanks for the update. Do you have an ipk/opk file yet? On your website it says version 0.9.5. I have currently no working OE here and there are now too many distribs. However, you can try the armel.deb.

Re: tangogps 0.9.8

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:49:43 +0100 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm wrote: 2009/11/2 Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com I have currently no working OE here and there are now too many distribs. However, you can try the armel.deb. Just extract the tangogps binary from the .deb (do

Re: (patch) new feature for tangoGPS: detail-scaling

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:30:02 +0100 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: please also sent your patches to Marcus Bauer (the author of TangoGPS) Joshua did already - I am just sitting on a big pile of backlog email. Regards, Marcus On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz

tangogps 0.9.8

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello, a new version of tangoGPS is out. Most notably are: * a fix for a potential segfault in the overzoom code (spotted by Joshua Judson Rosen) * if started in landscape mode the layout is optimized (toolbar vertical) which is nice both on the neo as well as on a laptop * you can

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-10-02 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:49:51 +0200 Thomas Zimmermann zimmerm...@vdm-design.de wrote: Hi, i tried tangogps 0.9.7 on SHR today and it segfaults on zooming. So i assume that the runtimedepencies changed. Can you announce the runtimedepencies for it? No dependency changes. There is a multiple

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-22 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:38:00 +0200 Michael Zanetti michael_zane...@gmx.net wrote: Sometimes, when I use tangogps for navigating I end up in areas not yet mapped on OSM. In that case it would be great to be able to store the current track afterwards if the Track logging has not been started

Re: tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-22 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:31:10 +1200 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/22 Alexander Lehner leh...@edv-buero-lehner.de: I'm not sure whether the gpx import is part of tangogps by default. I once wrote a hacked version that did that. In fact it was not a real XML parser,

tangogps 0.9.7 release

2009-09-21 Thread Marcus Bauer
Heya out there! First of all thanks for the many positive emails I got over the last months, motivating me to bring a new release of tangoGPS to the coolest open hardware gadget on earth - the openmoko phone. The new features include: * overzoom until level 20 * upscaling of missing tiles *

Re: tangogps + geocaching (DL-link inside)

2009-05-28 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 28 May 2009 17:05:06 +0200 Stefan Fröbe frob...@googlemail.com wrote: Don't get me wrong here: I still think Marcus as the developer of TangoGPS is the best person to discuss all this with - I do not intend to fork or maintain any separate version, nor do I recommend to do so by any

Re: Visit at Openmoko

2009-05-25 Thread Marcus Bauer
the future will prove the concept was right but ahead of its time... Thanks again for a great job, Marcus Bauer, tangoGPS On Tue, 26 May 2009 01:03:40 +0800 Sven Klomp s...@klomp.de wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2009 00:46:27 Thomas White wrote: A not unimportant snippet of information is missing

Re: hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-06 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 06 May 2009 08:23:30 +0200 Olivier Berger ober...@ouvaton.org wrote: Then, I'd very much suggest to update http://www.hackable1.org/wiki/Downloads which still points to rev3 AFAICT. fixed. thanks for the hint ___ Openmoko community mailing

hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello Openmoko Community, a new release of hackable:1 is available! We have been working hard on ironing out bugs and making it a lot more usable and I am proud to announce that we have come a long way. Several developers are now using it as daily phone and internet device - so we are eating our

Re: hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 05 May 2009 13:46:49 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: What debian repo should I add to sources.list to get the source code of woosh? Neither Currently only the tarball is available. You can get it from the woosh wiki page:

Re: hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:20:44 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Marcus Bauer marcus.ba...@gmail.com writes: Currently only the tarball is available. You can get it from the woosh wiki page: That has several files that are autogenerated with the glade tool

Re: hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 5 May 2009 05:56:03 -0700 (PDT) Tha_Man jeroenb...@hotmail.com wrote: There is however one thing that prevents me from using my FR as a daily phone (based on rev4-preview): http://trac.hackable1.org/trac/ticket/52 ticket #52 . Can you tell me if this bug is well know, if it is

Re: hackable:1 - new release

2009-05-05 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 5 May 2009 15:09:25 +0200 Vinzenz Hersche hers...@puzzle.ch wrote: yeah, this release rocks! :D just one question.. is it possible to import vcard and ics-files? if it is, its my new favourite :) We haven't yet looke into it, but it is based on e-d-s and thus there are already ics

sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-15 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello list, Joseph Reeves wrote on his blog about a bicycle app for the Neo [1]. I have always wanted to add cycling / sports functions to tangoGPS but as the LCD is mostly unreadable in sunlight I felt there is little use. After trying it a couple of times on my bike I soon started to leave

Re: sunlight readable LCD

2009-04-15 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:22:24 +0100 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: cal investment required for this? I guess I should go google psp screen linux... From the same company there is another LCD which is transflective and 3,5, the TD035STEE1.

tangoGPS 0.9.5 is out

2009-01-18 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello, a new release of tangoGPS is out. Improvements are: - better handling of broken NMEA (some people experienced crashers) - fix for correct lat/lon display for eastern longitudes and southern latitudes - Google has changed their URI scheme thus satellite imagery works now too - anyway,

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-18 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:20:58 +0100 quote: Current issues Messages starts but does not send the message - minor dbus issue if it is minor, do you guys have any idea how long it will take to resolve the issue Thanks for the hint, this was only about the old rev1. SMS works in the

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-18 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:51:13 +0100 Sascha Wessel wes...@nefkom.net wrote: why do we need another distribution? The better solution would be to include the packages into debian, isn't it? This way everyone benefits. Technically it is not really another distribution. It is the port of the GTK

Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hey guys, fully in the spirit of release early, release often we want to announce hackable:1, a new distribution for the Neo and other hackable devices. What is hackable:1 ? Hackable:1 is based on the DebianOnFreerunner but packaging the OM2007.2 applications, extending

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:27:19 -0500 (EST) Paul Wouters p...@xelerance.com wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Marcus Bauer wrote: * GPS works out of the box It comes as a tarball, thus you need a 2 GB SD card (SanDisk work well) Is the GPS+SD card problem solved yet? Yes, the fix

Re: Version 2 -- New community distribution hackable1

2008-12-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:15:21 + Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: 2008/12/17 Marcus Bauer mba...@bearstech.com: Hackable:1 is based on the DebianOnFreerunner but packaging the OM2007.2 applications, extending and bugfixing them. It is intended to become a stable platform

Re: TangoGPS svn/git ?

2008-11-10 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:31:20 +1300 Glen Ogilvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A friend and myself are planning on contribute to TangoGPS. Looking for the git / svn repository we can pull the latest source from? Does anyone know if a repository for tangogps exists? The latest on the

Re: (Some?) 3G support for Linux from Nokia - relevant for future models?

2008-09-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 05:45 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: I would beg to differ. Trolltech is now part of Nokia, Qt and Qtopia certainly are open source and I can tell you for certain, we are committed to keeping them open source. I wonder what your plans are for the phone stack? I doubt that

Re: Navit patch for faster map dragging

2008-08-20 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:04 +1000, Dale Maggee wrote: so I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/navit# /etc/init.d/gpsd start and got: Starting gpsd: No GPS device, aborting gpsd startup. Check /etc/default/gpsd The line in /etc/default/gpsd needs to read (for freerunner):

Re: debian and tangogps

2008-08-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
, - Marcus Bauer -- Lead Architect Developer of tangoGPS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: tangospg and 2008.8 - gui not drawing

2008-08-13 Thread Marcus Bauer
PROTECTED] (RHK) wrote: I have contacted the developer (not about this though) to ask if there is a svn repo or something for the community to participate. He (Marcus Bauer) answered that there only the source codes of releases are available currently, he's been developing tango only

Re: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-30 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:37 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: On 7/29/08 Marcus Bauer wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:33 -0700, steve wrote: Of course!!! Every toolkit is allowed. The whole point about FSO is to free people to pick their toolkit! The opposite is true. FSO forces

Re: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-30 Thread Marcus Bauer
Neos will be produced - Marcus Bauer -- developer of tangoGPS ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

RE: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 01:08 +0200, Kristian 'kriss' Mueller wrote: Am Dienstag, den 29.07.2008, 00:46 +0200 schrieb Marcus Bauer: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:33 -0700, steve wrote: Of course!!! Every toolkit is allowed. The whole point about FSO is to free people to pick their toolkit

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 17:14 -0700, ian douglas wrote: And while Openmoko is working on their own framework, I have to agree with many other voices: knowing which platform to develop for, as a developer myself, is confusing. This is exactly the point. Openmoko should be like Ubuntu:

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:35 -0700, Brian C wrote: [snip lots of very clever thoughts] So, I'll ask again: does Openmoko intend to allow direct code contributions by community members to core components of the ASU/FSO frameworks? It would be better to get rid of this whole framework concept

Re: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello John, thanks for taking the time for writing your answer. On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 18:38 +0800, John Lee wrote: Part of my current work requires me to use fso daily. It seems strange that what I know seems to be different from what you know. * fso does not force you to ASU or closely

Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:46 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Dienstag 29 Juli 2008 15:28:56 schrieb rakshat hooja: Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it. Not to start a flame war but even I would

Re: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:26 +0100, Tim Coggins wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from tangogps. Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it. OM2007.2

Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:49 +0530, rakshat hooja wrote: @Marcus - My main job is to sell the Neo ( I work for a distributor) and tangoGPS is the application that impresses my clients (and me) the most (even though we hardly have OSM data for India!). I would love to see it continue to be

Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

2008-07-29 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:47 +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote: Well, i like tangoGPS very much. But it is hardly a comprehensive solution. First it's only a tile viewer for online maps. No routing, no offline maps. I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this will take at

RE: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld

2008-07-28 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:33 -0700, steve wrote: Of course!!! Every toolkit is allowed. The whole point about FSO is to free people to pick their toolkit! The opposite is true. FSO forces you into ASU. It basically makes all work that has been put into OM2007.2 useless. Please stop telling

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-24 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 21:03 +0200, Yorick Moko wrote: i tried to walk with tangogps and sometimes i jumed 1-2 km in a random direction and kept drifting there were no roads in openstreetmaps for my location, could this influence it? No, that is definitely not the case. But occasionally I

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-24 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:42 +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/7/24 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fixed a long way back in the route. I didn't have a tile cached for the area I had walked into. When I zoomed out to a scale where I did have a tile cached it redrew the track, this time following

Re: Influence of WiFi on GPS readings (200m error)

2008-07-21 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 07:54 -0700, C R McClenaghan wrote: I'm not sure where the fault lies, but with tangogps, I seem to get a scatter plot displayed for my position. Initially the fix seems accurate, then it starts to wander, although I may not be. If I am moving, the trial doesn't

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-18 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:05 +0200, Alexander Köb wrote: Hey Michele, Michele Renda schrieb: I am an Electronic Engineer but I will bring to a place where repair telephone, and with 5 Euro they will do for me. if you know of a place where they do that for 5 EUR, please let me know,

Re: New Freerunner, factory image - Registering...

2008-07-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
You could post the output of logread -f On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:42 -0500, Greg Bonett wrote: Although I'm still having trouble getting this SIM card to work but I think it's doable. It actually registered last night and I was able to make and receive a phone call. After a reboot it went

Re: Problem in logging in freerunner through ssh

2008-07-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
Paul Bonser answered already with the fix. I'll add the reason: whenever you connect to an unknown system, you are asked if you want to accept the key like this: - The authenticity of host '192.168.0.202 (192.168.0.202)' can't be

Re: Problem in logging in freerunner through ssh

2008-07-17 Thread Marcus Bauer
Somewhere on the wiki is a description how to shut this behaviour off, but I hope nobody will ever inactivate this vigilance. Thanks for the explanation... Regards... I have to add that Joachim Steigers suggestion is very okay too, as it only

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:22 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote: Alejandro - This issue does not look good. Is there someone in Openmoko or FIC aware of it? Aware of it? You must be kidding. Dear Wolfgang, there remains one question that the community has to you and it is even more

Re: New Freerunner, factory image - Registering...

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:01 -0500, Greg Bonett wrote: Anyway, once booted to the factory image I get continuously a Registering... message in the top-left corner of the Home screen. After 30 minutes or so this message persists. Did you get this resolved? I'm having the same

Re: GPS problems, summary

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:38 +0200, Alasal wrote: What is the problem? - The Openmoko Freerunner have a long TTFF with the SD card in the phone. So it takes a long time (10min+) before you get your first GPS data. More specific: the GPS signal level drops by -20dBm, i.e. factor 100. Signal

Re: GPS problems, summary

2008-07-16 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 23:00 +0200, Yorick Moko wrote: question: does the lower signal also effect accuracy? It is a good deal more jittery. However, if you drive around in a city you will get a lot more error from signal reflections than from the jitter. IMHO nothing to worry about.

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Marcus Bauer
Confirming this too. Under decent conditions first TTFF 130s, then after a power down/power up it was ~40secs. Never saw it that fast on the Neo1973. Excellent! Well, more or less :o) On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:42 +0200, thomasg wrote: Hi ppl, I write this to community, not to devel or

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 12:42 +0200, thomasg wrote: First results show at the same devices, even outdoor, that there is no fix in over 400 seconds with SD card, the signal seems to be at least 10 to 20 dB worse (so bad, that most satellites don't even appear). confirming this too. I never saw a

Re: x offset in landscape mode

2008-07-10 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:28 +0200, Michael Kluge wrote: Hi all, I have a slight problem with the landscape mode. It seems that the touchscreen subtracts some value from the x position where I touched the screen with the stylus. The y value seems to be fine. If I tap on the '+' on the

Re: T-Mobile with ASU on GTA01?

2008-07-09 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:25 +0200, thomasg wrote: ASU works basically, but getting telephony work with it is a matter of luck. Mostly it doesn't work at all, mostly the qtopia phoneserver eats 90% CPU.. You may have one of the broken GSM modems. From my four phones two have a broken GSM -

Re: T-Mobile with ASU on GTA01?

2008-07-09 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:38 +0200, thomasg wrote: Like said before, they are (at least for me) all but working well (not even to mention the UI design with 2-color icons without ever knowing what they might mean). Some of the icons are all but intuitive but this is a question of the icons and

Re: GPS

2008-07-08 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 13:36 +0200, flexd wrote: Im actually having some trouble installing that, it says: / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# opkg install http://people.openmoko.org/tony_tu/GTA02/util/gps/openmoko-agpsui_0.1+svnr7-r0_armv4t.ipk Downloading

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:24 +0200, Mathias Ballner wrote: hi all, today i tried to get the gps running, but i didn't get a gps fix i tested it with tangogps (nice tool!) and openmoko-agpsui the only output i got was: http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/6d11990f0c82d92f0252742d7ef44950.png what

Re: Posible Bluetooth Keyboard

2008-07-07 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:39 -0600, michael irons wrote: The Stowaway from iGo / ThinkOutside works nicely for me. I was looking at that, but they seem to not be selling them anymore... Any ideas where to find one in US

Re: Slashdot post but no web store?

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 02:30 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: I connect my 1973 to my car's AUX input and it sounds just fine. The issue he has is with the headset, not the jack. Either way, his assessment is true - headset quality and audio issues make using the Freerunner as a DAP

Re: Fast questions about GTA03

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:09 +0300, Mikko Rauhala wrote: On pe, 2008-06-27 at 13:56 +0200, Lucas Bonnet wrote: Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I encourage you to get involved today. We need your help. Waiting for GTA03 is a possibility of course, but keep in mind how long it

Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
Hello, I'm wondering if there is any interest in maintaining the GTK software stack? Actually many companies have expressed their interest in a GTK based platform as it is perceived as more future proof than some kind of exotic software stack with a very small developer base. Lots of

Re: Community Initiative GTK

2008-06-27 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote: I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be present any more? Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in order to start a new

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