Re: How VNCVIEWER can bring non maemo applications onto the N800

2007-02-20 Thread Aaron Levinson
. This technique provides users with a solution that should be satisfactory in many cases, especially when going full-screen without the toolbar or scrollbars in VNC viewer. Regards, Neil Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] [maemo-announce] maemo 2.2 'gregale' is released

2007-02-02 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Ferenc Szekely wrote: Hello, The maemo team proudly announce the newest development environment for Nokia 770 Internet Tablets: maemo 2.2 'gregale'. This release supports development for the latest OS 2006 Software Edition. Maemo 2.2 is based on the latest Scratchbox

Re: [maemo-developers] [maemo-announce] maemo 2.2 'gregale' is released

2007-02-02 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Johan Bilien wrote: Aaron Levinson wrote: It's great to see a new 2.x SDK release that runs on the same version of scratchbox as the 3.0 SDK, but my main concern is will packages created with the new SDK work on maemo 2.0 and 2.1 platforms? When the 2.1/scirocco SDK

Re: [maemo-developers] Mildly concerned about order status

2007-01-30 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Andrew Barr wrote: Hi, I know that as far as Maemo vs. Nokia is concerned in the N800 developer program, we need to be talking to the web shop folks at Nokia USA, however I would like to solicit reactions from those in the US and maybe Canada who have placed orders for

Re: [maemo-developers] Problems with devel order in US?

2007-01-29 Thread Aaron Levinson
through, and a tracking number appeared on the order over the weekend. Regards, Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] This Nokia N800 discount code is for you

2007-01-25 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrew Barr wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:16 +0100, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I got it!! me too Thanks VERY MUCH Maemo Team! ack Really really really thank you! It was REALLY unexpected :) to say the least Ordered already. Can't wait to get it!

Re: [maemo-developers] N800 Developer Device program: European discount codes sent

2007-01-23 Thread Aaron Levinson
in the first round, or the codes for non-European developers did not go out today. Thanks, Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] Howto: using two scratchbox environments

2007-01-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Janne Kataja wrote: Aaron Levinson wrote: The standard maemo 3.0 SDK installation documentation states that it is recommended that previous versions of the SDK be uninstalled before installing the new SDK. But, it seems reasonable that developers will want

Re: [maemo-developers] Installing 3.0 SDK

2007-01-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Michael Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm having some problems installing the 3.0 SDK, after I have run the install script apt seems to be broken. I get these errors when running apt-get install maemo-explicit, apt-get -f install, fakeroot apt-get install libosso-abook-dev .

Re: [maemo-developers] Howto: using two scratchbox environments

2007-01-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Peter Robinson wrote: The updated maemo 2.2 I understand is essentially 2.1 with updates required to run it in the same scratchbox a v3 so you won't need 2 installs. Peter True, but in the meantime, until 2.2 is available, supposedly by the end of the month, it is

[maemo-developers] Howto: using two scratchbox environments

2007-01-13 Thread Aaron Levinson
The standard maemo 3.0 SDK installation documentation states that it is recommended that previous versions of the SDK be uninstalled before installing the new SDK. But, it seems reasonable that developers will want to maintain both the 2.0/2.1 and 3.0 installations due to the need to build

Re: [maemo-developers] for extras uploaders: new upload queues available

2007-01-12 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ferenc Szekely wrote: Hello, The new upload queues for maemo extras are available. Please update your dput.cf configuration file with the following entries: [mistral-extras] login = your_garage_login_name fqdn = garage method = scp hash = md5

Re: [maemo-developers] for extras uploaders: new upload queues available

2007-01-12 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Aaron Levinson wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ferenc Szekely wrote: Hello, The new upload queues for maemo extras are available. Please update your dput.cf configuration file with the following entries: [mistral-extras] login = your_garage_login_name fqdn

[maemo-developers] Tracking downloads from garage repositories?

2007-01-12 Thread Aaron Levinson
Is there any way to get statistics for downloads from garage repositories? It would be nice if said statistics were available from a project's garage Web page. Currently, it only seems possible to get download statistics for files downloaded from the garage Web pages for a project. Thanks,

[maemo-developers] garage/extras repository for bora?

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Levinson
to work on bora (or at least are supposed to work on bora). Thanks, Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Levinson
already been stated that there will be a maemo 2.2 release, although this may only be for developers. One possible way to interpret this is that 2.x releases will be for the 770, while 3.x releases will be for the N800. Aaron Levinson Perhaps some kind of OS2006/OS2007 combination will turn

Re: [maemo-developers] garage/extras repository for bora?

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Ferenc Szekely wrote: Hello, On 1/9/07, Levi Bard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When can we expect to have a new garage/extras repository for bora (and instructions for posting a package to this repository)? Some of the applications at the extras mistral repository

Re: [maemo-developers] garage/extras repository for bora?

2007-01-09 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Ferenc Szekely wrote: On 1/10/07, Aaron Levinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I know when we can offer extras for receiving your apps for bora. Some of us at nokia had an idea to setup a automated build system which accepts source uploads only and delivers

[maemo-developers] root image scripts appear to be unavailable

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
The root image scripts that are referenced by the Using the flasher utility and creating the referencfe root file system how-to no longer appear to be available. According to this Web page, they can be retrieved at https://stage.maemo.org/svn/integration/trunk/rootimagescripts/ , but this link

[maemo-developers] Create a FIASCO image?

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Levinson
Using flasher --unpack, it is possible to unpack a FIASCO image. However, how does one go about creating a new FIASCO image that can be used with the Windows Software Update Wizard? I can certainly flash a new rootfs using flasher, but there are legitimate reasons why it might be necessary

[maemo-developers] How to determine if the screen has turned off?

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Levinson
In the Maemo coding style and programming guidelines document on maemo.org, it states the following: Avoid updating the GUI when the application running on the background and when the screen has been turned off. Remove unnecessary graphical elements or constantly updated screen components. Now,

Proper documentation (was Re: [maemo-developers] HildonProgram input to gtk_widget_show()?)

2006-11-29 Thread Aaron Levinson
the deficiencies in the developer documentation. Unlike on the wiki, this documentation cannot be easily enhanced by the community, and submitting bugs against documentation in Bugzilla is tedious. Regards, Aaron Levinson On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Johan Bilien wrote: Aaron Levinson wrote: In all the examples

[maemo-developers] HildonProgram input to gtk_widget_show()?

2006-11-28 Thread Aaron Levinson
to instead pass in a HildonWindow? Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

[maemo-developers] mistral or scirocco?

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Levinson
distribution on the extras repository should we place the package, mistral or scirocco? Considering that the scirocco distribution is not published, I would guess the mistral distribution is correct, but will packages built with the 2.1 SDK work on an IT2006 mistral platform? Thanks, Aaron Levinson

Re: [maemo-developers] mistral or scirocco?

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:56:49AM -0800, Aaron Levinson wrote: But my main question is, if we build our package with the scirocco/2.1 SDK, in which distribution on the extras repository should we place the package, mistral or scirocco

Re: [maemo-developers] Requesting assistance concerning proper author credit at nseries.com/770experience_2/

2006-11-22 Thread Aaron Levinson
Frantisek brings up some good points, but I don't think they are relevant in this case. The original version that I started from was an ancient, abandoned, GTK-based version of VNC viewer from 1999 by James Henstridge. He released two versions in 1999 and then abandoned the project. I've gone

RE: [maemo-developers] Building maemo_af_desktop

2006-04-05 Thread Aaron Levinson
Hi Karoliina, Responses below. Aaron On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Actually you should build the maemo-af-desktop with dpkg-buildpackage: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot It has been explained in my blog from last year or so:

Re: [maemo-developers] Input Method Documentation

2006-04-04 Thread Aaron Levinson
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Neil Jerram wrote: Phil Cowans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this also mean that we may be getting a port of Dasher for the 770 soon? I really hope so! This is indeed the plan. (1) is coming along pretty well. I haven't stared on (2) yet, but there's quite a lot

RE: [maemo-developers] neat device

2006-04-02 Thread Aaron Levinson
on the 770, the virtual keyboard IM, the handwriting IM, and the keyboard IM (known as XIM). The keyboard IM is provided in a separate library, im-xim.so. Also, there is a UI component for hildon-im-module.so, libhildoninputmethodwidgets.so. Aaron Levinson

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Virtual Keyboard and hiding AutoComplete content

2006-03-17 Thread Aaron Levinson
The changed signal seems to be fired whenever a character is entered with the VK input method. I haven't seen the VK input method use the other two signals. However, I don't think this is the case with the handwriting input method, and I believe that it uses all three events. With the

Re: [maemo-developers] Automatic network connection, Autostart of Applications, in what init scripts should I put the commands ?

2006-02-02 Thread Aaron Levinson
I'll be adding support for automatic network connections to VNC viewer in the next release. I tried to do this programmatically in the previous release by manually loading the libossopreload (or whatever it is called, I don't recall at the moment) library, but I could never get dlopen() (or

Re: [maemo-developers] New version of VNC viewer available plus source code

2006-01-23 Thread Aaron Levinson
The original author of gnome-vnc-viewer wrote the Hextile code (back in 1999)--I haven't really looked at it yet or tested it yet, and I assume that he disabled it because it wasn't ready when he published the 0.1 release of gnome-vnc-viewer. The next version of the maemo port will likely

Re: [maemo-developers] VirtualKeyboard service/API

2006-01-20 Thread Aaron Levinson
, Antonio Gomes wrote: otherwise, there is no way to force it Pop UP manually ? regards On 1/20/06, Antonio Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/06, Aaron Levinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Aaron, One possibility is to use gdk_window_foreign_new() to wrap the native window

Re: [maemo-developers] VirtualKeyboard service/API

2006-01-20 Thread Aaron Levinson
at the source code for vncviewer or osso-xterm for examples. You can also examine the code for various GTK classes, such as GtkTextEntry. Also, you can refer back to some previous e-mails that I wrote to this list regarding input methods. Aaron On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Aaron Levinson wrote: You can use

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron Levinson
Regarding the matter of the xim bug, it seems that the proper approach is to fix the bug in the next firmware release. I imagine that in order to replace the im-xim.so file, super-user privileges are required. Tomas: as an interim solution, perhaps you could provide an alternate version of the

Re: [maemo-developers] VirtualKeyboard service/API

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron Levinson
One possibility is to use gdk_window_foreign_new() to wrap the native window in a GdkWindow object. Then, after creating a GtkIMMulticontext, you could try using gtk_im_context_set_client_window() with the new GdkWindow object. You'll want to listen for key-press and key-release signals (hard to

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-17 Thread Aaron Levinson
, such as gtk_im_context_get_surrounding(). Aaron Levinson On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Simon Budig wrote: That as well. I just wonder what crack the Notetaking application has smoked to ignore the german umlauts. As you've noted on your homepage they work in Opera and xterm, so it seems to be the fault

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-17 Thread Aaron Levinson
to the X server to GTK. I have not looked at the code yet but the keytable switching will probably be done using something like xmodmap. Does that help? Cheers nils Aaron Levinson schrieb: I seriously doubt that this problem has anything to do with the Hildonized GTK+, considering

Re: [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

2006-01-17 Thread Aaron Levinson
Responses below. Aaron On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Simon Budig wrote: Aaron Levinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I seriously doubt that this problem has anything to do with the Hildonized GTK+, considering that special characters such as the German umlaut work fine in my VNC viewer port

Re: [maemo-developers] Open URL with 770's browser

2006-01-09 Thread Aaron Levinson
Take a look at https://stage.maemo.org/viewcvs.cgi/maemo/projects/browser/browser/trunk/osso-browser-interface/osso-browser-interface.h?rev=1344view=markuphttps://stage.maemo.org/viewcvs.cgi/maemo/projects/browser/browser/trunk/osso-browser-interface/osso-browser-interface.h?rev=1344view=markup

[maemo-developers] New version of VNC viewer available plus source code

2006-01-08 Thread Aaron Levinson
-- Forcing the input method's window to display with the click of a toolbar button Please note that I haven't really started on the localization effort, and the relevant files in the po directory are unchanged from the maemopad files that I started from. Aaron Levinson

Re: [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

2006-01-05 Thread Aaron Levinson
implementation is kept separate from the underlying communication protocol implementation, which is not the case for RealVNC's vncviewer implementation. Aaron On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Simon Guerrero wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:53, Aaron Levinson wrote: As a general rule, building

Re: [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

2006-01-04 Thread Aaron Levinson
It's important to note that even if you solve the problem of getting the icon to display in the task bar, a bigger problem exists when an attempt is made to run the software on the device itself. Since it isn't a GTK application, there will be no support for GTK input methods. Effectively, this

Re: [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

2006-01-04 Thread Aaron Levinson
/5/06, Aaron Levinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's important to note that even if you solve the problem of getting the icon to display in the task bar, a bigger problem exists when an attempt is made to run the software on the device itself. Since it isn't a GTK application

Re: [maemo-developers] non-maemo apps in toolbar

2006-01-04 Thread Aaron Levinson
wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:53, Aaron Levinson wrote: As a general rule, building and running strictly X applications isn't going to cut it on the 770, and a true port of a GUI application to the maemo platform requires some programming, quite possibly extensive programming

Re: [maemo-developers] VNC Viewer maemo port now available

2005-12-29 Thread Aaron Levinson
I examined the source code for rdesktop over the weekend, and it looks like the port should be relatively straightforward. In rdesktop, the user interface is implemented separately from the underlying protocol, so it's just a matter of adding a new user interface implementation. At least, this

[maemo-developers] Issues with using flasher utility on Linux and eventual solution

2005-12-19 Thread Aaron Levinson
information in the relevant Wiki entries. Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

[maemo-developers] Flasher utility with support for MacOS X 10.2?

2005-12-18 Thread Aaron Levinson
that an alternate version of flasher.macosx can be distributed that supports pre-10.3.9 systems? Thanks, Aaron Levinson ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers