Re: New user saying hi
- Original Message - From: Robert William Hutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought a Neo Freerunner and debug board - all looks pretty good so far. This is my first real use of Linux and I'm beginning to feel like I'm throwing myself off the deep end a bit, but I'm a self-taught Congrats on making it this far. Believe me when I say that as a programmer you might find it difficult to go back to whatever non-unixy OS you used to use. It's addictive. ;) Thanks, it must be pretty addictive as I was up until gone 3am messing around with the thing! I was a bit late to work this morning ;) What really interested me about this project however was the possibility that I might be able to get into the user interface development a bit. I have a few ideas for a mobile GUI that I'd like to put into practice. So I think you should probably get started with themes. In the various windowing toolkits that are in use there are themes that control how widgets are drawn and such. For example, the GTK theme files are here: /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc See this ML post: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025711.html There should be similar mechanisms for theming the other toolkits, such as qtopia somewhere as well. Thanks for this.. I'm finding it a bit difficult to get to the right information at the moment, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. So, that allows you to control the appearance of the existing widgets and such. Next you'll need to actually start changing the code of the apps that actually draw the widgets. You'll need to download the development environment and start looking at the code. Which is beyond my abilities right now, but there is a bit of info floating around on the ML and in the wiki about getting this all set up. HTH! :) Cheers, Rob ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
New user saying hi
Hi All, I don't usually use mailing lists, so I hope it's not bad etiquette just to say hi! I've bought a Neo Freerunner and debug board - all looks pretty good so far. This is my first real use of Linux and I'm beginning to feel like I'm throwing myself off the deep end a bit, but I'm a self-taught programmer by profession so hopefully I can get the hang of it. I've tried out the Qtopia GTA02 release and now the OM2008.08 release, finally managed to get connected to the internet and am just working my way through a few installers. What really interested me about this project however was the possibility that I might be able to get into the user interface development a bit. I have a few ideas for a mobile GUI that I'd like to put into practice. So far, most of my research has brought up details on building applications, but very little on messing about with interface underneath. Is there currently an SDK or any form of information that can help me get started with this? I hope I haven't missed any FAQs or something obvious, but I really have been searching for days! Thanks, Chris. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: New user saying hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't usually use mailing lists, so I hope it's not bad etiquette just to say hi! Probably. But you're not just saying hi, you've got a couple of good questions here. I've bought a Neo Freerunner and debug board - all looks pretty good so far. This is my first real use of Linux and I'm beginning to feel like I'm throwing myself off the deep end a bit, but I'm a self-taught Congrats on making it this far. Believe me when I say that as a programmer you might find it difficult to go back to whatever non-unixy OS you used to use. It's addictive. ;) What really interested me about this project however was the possibility that I might be able to get into the user interface development a bit. I have a few ideas for a mobile GUI that I'd like to put into practice. So I think you should probably get started with themes. In the various windowing toolkits that are in use there are themes that control how widgets are drawn and such. For example, the GTK theme files are here: /usr/share/themes/Moko/gtk-2.0/gtkrc See this ML post: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-August/025711.html There should be similar mechanisms for theming the other toolkits, such as qtopia somewhere as well. So, that allows you to control the appearance of the existing widgets and such. Next you'll need to actually start changing the code of the apps that actually draw the widgets. You'll need to download the development environment and start looking at the code. Which is beyond my abilities right now, but there is a bit of info floating around on the ML and in the wiki about getting this all set up. HTH! :) Cheers, Rob ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
