Re: Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, well if you don't care about marketing your product/program/platform to its users, you definitely shouldn't follow Apple. Please don't put words in my mouth. How exactly does putting an engineering-centric view

Re: Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

2008-03-11 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
I do agree with Michael Wiktowy. I did the check too and my applications show a barebone of their UI in less than 3s. Indeed, I have never noticed and slowness in applications startup since I've switched to OS2008. I am not an UI expert (even tho I would like to be), but, from an user point of

Re: Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

2008-03-11 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Michael Wiktowy wrote: Well, I have news for you ... that 3s standard for showing a basic UI has already been met (with the N800 and N810 running OS2008 at least). Actually OS2007 is faster here with my N800 in this regard. When launched repeatedly, both Application Manager and File Mananger

Re: Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

2008-03-11 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2008/3/11, Michael Wiktowy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, well if you don't care about marketing your product/program/platform to its users, you definitely shouldn't follow Apple. Please don't put words in my mouth.

Re: Launch image to increase feeling of responsiveness (a la iPhone)

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be clear, I'm not an Apple fanboy. I do not like their restrictive way of doing things. But I do acknowledge their expertise in the HCI field, and I think I understand how they manage to produce the compelling

Re: N810 FN key X

2008-03-11 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:12:56PM +0200, Joni Valtanen wrote: I only readed xomap code. So I'm not 100% sure about this. But anyway - How it works with xomap: 1. read fn:s code from evdev (0x1d0) Does xomap even use evdev? At least 1.1.99.3 used the keyboard driver instead. I haven't

Re: N810 FN key X

2008-03-11 Thread Joni Valtanen
Yes. xomap uses evdev, I just tested. And I tested that cast thing also. __u16 y = 0x1234 unsigned char x = y, result: x=0x34 But anyway Tuomas has another point in his question: Why that ioctl doesn't work? - Joni On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ville Syrjälä wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at

Example of tranparent plugin for Home

2008-03-11 Thread Johan Bilien
Hi, I put an example of transparent home plugin at: https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-home-weather/ It's not meant to be functional but to be an illustration on how to build transparent applets using cairo. Please report any issue or question! -- Johan Bilien [EMAIL

Re: N810 FN key X

2008-03-11 Thread Matthew Exon
Tuomas Kulve wrote: Matthew Exon wrote: I have a ThinkOutside stowaway bluetooth keyboard and several of the keys are dead, as far as I can tell because evdev ignores their keycodes. Unlike this case, however, the keycodes that get sent are under 255, so it sounds like I should be able to

Re: dead keys with ThinkOutside stowaway bluetooth keyboard (was N810 FN key X)

2008-03-11 Thread Tuomas Kulve
Matthew Exon wrote: Where does evtest come from? Originally, I don't know :) http://tuomas.kulve.fi/tmp/x/evtest.c -- Tuomas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: dead keys with ThinkOutside stowaway bluetooth keyboard (was N810 FN key X)

2008-03-11 Thread Matthew Exon
Tuomas Kulve wrote: Matthew Exon wrote: Where does evtest come from? Originally, I don't know :) http://tuomas.kulve.fi/tmp/x/evtest.c So my problem exists in the kernel, not X. Call me perverse, but that actually makes it sound easier to solve :-) Thanks a lot, Mat

Developing on Fedora 4; Xephyr/X11

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Daviel
I have Fedora Core 4 at home (OK, OK, but it still works, and I spent some time messing with kernel modules for onboard sound and bcrypt.. I upgrade when I get new hardware, or if it gets too painful not to...) I ran maemo-scratchbox-install_4.0.1.sh, which worked brilliantly and I can port

Re: Developing on Fedora 4; Xephyr/X11

2008-03-11 Thread Daniil Ivanov
Hi! I don't remember how it was with Fedora 4, but on Fedora 8 yum search xephyr tells me that there is a package xorg-x11-server-Xephyr. Thanks, Daniil. On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Daviel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Fedora Core 4 at home (OK, OK, but it still works, and I

Re: wav recording from mic low volume

2008-03-11 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:12 -0400, Mark Chang wrote: This was using my own python + gstreamer code, but I can confirm the same issue using maemo-recorder. BTW, I'm interested by python code that can transform iLBC to wav or any other more common format :). Thanks in advance, Laurent

RE: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-11 Thread Darius Jack
Thanks Quim for yopur explanation. The problem is with Google calling projects organizations and requesting so ad-hoc set-up organizations to provide Google with tax statement data. I called Google, tried to contact its legal department but the best way is to contact Larry Page informally as tax

Re: Developing on Fedora 4; Xephyr/X11

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Daniil Ivanov wrote: Hi! I don't remember how it was with Fedora 4, but on Fedora 8 yum search xephyr tells me that there is a package xorg-x11-server-Xephyr. Ah. Looks like it arrived in FC6, or RHEL 5. It needs things like libXaw, libXdmcp I don't have and a later