Re: How to read a .xml file?

2008-04-17 Thread Chandra
Hi, Thank you for your response. I am able to execute and include gtk/gtk.h file, but when I tried to include libxml/xmlreader.h, it is giving compilation error as below: main.c:8:30: libxml/xmlreader.h: No such file or directory libxml2 library is installed in my machine. I executed find

Re: BECOMEROOT

2008-04-17 Thread Johan Helsingius
Ryan, You do realize CarMan works just fine with OS2008, right? Umh, no, I didn't. My only excuse is that it didn't last time I checked, and I got no response to my question about it on the carman list. Many thanks! Julf ___

Re: How to read a .xml file?

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan Pavlik
You'll want to use pkg-config in your configure and make system. Ryan Chandra wrote: Hi, Thank you for your response. I am able to execute and include gtk/gtk.h file, but when I tried to include libxml/xmlreader.h, it is giving compilation error as below: main.c:8:30:

playbin problem

2008-04-17 Thread Sanjay Gupta
Hi all, I am trying to play mp3 file using playbin gstreamer element as follows: [sbox-CHINOOK_X86: ~] gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/sanjay/MyDocs/.sounds/song.mp3 But it is not working and giving the following errors:

[RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Niels Breet
Hi all, Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository. There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state we are in now. We have these nice categories for example: 'Boingo',

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Niels Breet
ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state we are in now. There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html: Ok, we need to get this in the official documentation. I don't think many developers will

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state we are in now. There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html: Segments and Sections By default, the AM only shows packages in certain segments to

RE: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Simon Pickering
user/accessoriesAccessories user/communication Communication user/games Games user/multimedia Multimedia user/office Office user/other Other user/programmingProgramming user/supportSupport user/themes Themes user/tools

AM limitations

2008-04-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:52 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state we are in now. There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html: Segments and Sections

Re: playbin problem

2008-04-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:17:33 +0530, Sanjay Gupta wrote: Can someone please tell me if playbin is working properly in maemo SDK environent? It only works in Chinook. Anything earlier including Bora doesn't work. You can try using playbinmaemo instead, which is in maemo extras.

Re: AM limitations

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Neal H. Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The AM only shows packages in the user segment. Thus, your Section field in the control file should be of the form It's worse than this (at least on Bora). Downloading a .deb and opening it in the AM results in an error if the .deb

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Simon Pickering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the Debian system support multiple sub-categories? E.g. user/multimedia/Ringtones That would be debtags, http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ We have been talking about using debtags instead of the Section: user/FOO hack to control visibility,

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to come up with an official list and don't allow new categories to be created unless the community feels it is needed. I am sure you notice the conflict here:

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some opinions from our UI designers about your proposals. What about improving search?

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Jussi Kukkonen
Niels Breet wrote: Hi all, Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository. There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state we are in now. We have these nice

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Marius Vollmer I am sure you notice the conflict here: whatever list you come up with will be unsuitable for someone. You want strict policy enforcement, based on community 'feelings'. How can that work? Can

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's what we've got now! Yeah, but you cut the important part: At the same time, make it possible for people to improve policy compliance by doing concrete work

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 17 April 2008 12:33:26 Marius Vollmer wrote: I am sure you notice the conflict here: whatever list you come up with will be unsuitable for someone. You want strict policy enforcement, based on community 'feelings'. How can that work? I am strongly against strict enforcement. All

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan Abel
Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3103 Cool. We are aware that the category view sucks pretty hard, and I, too, only ever use the All category. I'll try to get some opinions from our UI designers about your proposals.

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:33:31 Jussi Kukkonen wrote: I agree, but apparently many do not. You may remember I posted about this a few months ago: In addition to complaining I also filed dozens of bugs in various places. That was very useful, thanks. For GPE I fixed the packages appearing

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through a gatekeeper: Yes, I agree. I was proposing

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:52:07 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: The second problem is the real problem: categories are random, overlapp or are just variant words for the same thing and are not translated. As someone suggested when this was last discussed, some months ago, I believe there should

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But... but... but... that'd involve changing the voice type=whisperui spec/voice! :-) Which, surprisingly, is possible! :-) ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
I agree with what Graham suggests. Good maintainers will follow the category list and try to figure out where to put their packages and are still able to create a new one (eventually accepted or rejected) by the community. Bad ones will be reported of their mistakes. The AM could follow the

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Graham Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through a

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The gatekeepers would be the ones fixing non-compliance (by rejecting violations, or by correcting them directly). I agree. Excellent, we've got the start of consensus :-) But we still need someone that is able/willing to actually execute

Re: swap not a substitute for virtual memory

2008-04-17 Thread Tony Green
For what it is worth, after I removed /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler, my system went from being completely unusable for anything but being a broken alarm clock to being relatively useful. metalayer-crawler's generally only a system-hog at bootup, so shouldn't cause many problems unless you

Re: swap not a substitute for virtual memory

2008-04-17 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Tony Green wrote: For what it is worth, after I removed /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler, my system went from being completely unusable for anything but being a broken alarm clock to being relatively useful. metalayer-crawler's generally only a

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 17 April 2008 14:46:04 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Graham Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NO. NO. NO! No one gets to change my package! Don't worry, nobody is going to do that. :-) I was thinking about the normal Debian 'overrides' machinery. I realised that was the mechanism

Re: How to read a .xml file?

2008-04-17 Thread Daniil Ivanov
Hi, Ryan is correct on this. But you didn't say anything how you compile your application. In case you are using autotools, you need to add to your configure.ac something like this PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XML2, libxml-2.0 = 2.6.31) AC_SUBST(XML2_CFLAGS) AC_SUBST(XML2_LIBS) If you just using

Re: [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

2008-04-17 Thread Allen Brown
Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes! -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown Hi all, Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository. There is no official list of categories,

Errors during installation

2008-04-17 Thread Dionysis Petromanolakis
Hi all, I just tried to install maemo2 using the following .deb files for scratchbox: scratchbox-core_0.9.8.8_i386.deb scratchbox-devkit-debian_0.9.8.8_i386.deb scratchbox-libs_0.9.8.8_i386.deb scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-arm_0.9.8.5-6_i386.deb

Re: swap not a substitute for virtual memory

2008-04-17 Thread Allen Brown
The subject line is incorrect. Swap is the portion of virtual memory which is not physical. What you should have said is swap not a substitute for *physical* memory. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown At Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:29 -0400, Ian Lawrence wrote: Hi, The

Re: swap not a substitute for virtual memory

2008-04-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT), Allen Brown wrote: The subject line is incorrect. Swap is the portion of virtual memory which is not physical. What you should have said is swap not a substitute for *physical* memory. Yes. ___

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas D. Waelti
What about improving search? Are categories useful at all for finding things? I'd prefer good browsing over searching. The N810's keyboard's good, but it's not as convenient. What about something in-between? Again and again, I find myself trying to use an intuitive, but alas non-existing

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Thomas D. Waelti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me press a key on the keyboard (e.g. n) and jump to the first package whos name begins with that letter (nako) Absolutely. Not withstanding all the other changes (more than one level, better methods for preventing

Thickness of border of popup window

2008-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Does anyone know what parameter in the default theme controls the thickness of the border of a popup window? -- Jeffrey Barish ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers