Re: [maemo-developers] Is there a convenient way of switching between usb/bluetooth/wifi networking?

2006-09-22 Thread David D. Hagood
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: Hello, I wonder if there exists something like an applet for fast switching between usb ethernet/mass storage device modes. Also it could provide some easy gui interface for setting up networking over bluetooth. Even better would be to allow both the USB networking and

Re: [maemo-developers] spam at maemo wiki

2006-09-12 Thread David D. Hagood
Steve Landers wrote: The first (and perhaps most significant) is to include 'rel="nofollow"' in all links, and to prominently display the following message on all edit pages This assumes that spammers are smart enough to read the message, understand it, and care. Given the evidence, I wo

Re: [maemo-developers] Future features for Maemo Desktop

2006-08-27 Thread David D. Hagood
Integration of the Festival Text to speech engine as an optional component, with hooks into the RSS feed reader and mail client would be nice - that way you could download an RSS feed and have it read to you while you are doing something else. Integration of a calendaring app (e.g. GPE) with t

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo alarms ==> retutime

2006-07-31 Thread David D. Hagood
Igor Stoppa wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:29 +0200, ext Nils Faerber wrote: [snip] And even worse since the alarms can only be set <24h in advance does that indeed mean that every application that wants to use alarms would have to handle this nasty 24h hopping on its own? I.e. if the alarm is

maemo-developers@maemo.org

2006-07-23 Thread David D. Hagood
Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 16:28, Clemens Eisserer wrote: I can't believe it, what has happend to ogg vorbis support in IT2006. Nokia more or less promised it (said they don't have enough time to do it in IT2005). There already is a Vorbis player as an add-on package. N

Re: [maemo-developers] Developing directly on the 770

2006-07-18 Thread David D. Hagood
Christian Henz wrote: I use NFS, but with the 2006 OS you have to re-compile the kernel for that. Actually, there is a kernel image up on maemo.org with support for both NFS and IP6 - so there is no need to recompile, just reflash the kernel - it is listed in the Applications2006 section. H

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Tinymail using mmap() gets killed by the kernel of the device

2006-07-16 Thread David D. Hagood
Assuming you are building the structures yourself, you might also try this: typedef union ALIGNED_STRING { uint32 aligner; char string[MAXLEN]; } ALIGNED_STRING; Then declare all strings within your structures using ALIGNED_STRING: struct MyHeaderSummary { int16 foo; char bar; A

Re: [maemo-developers] Changes to GTK

2006-05-31 Thread David D. Hagood
Koen Kooi wrote: Ehm. Shouldn't e-mails containing crap^H^H^H^Hstuff like this be discarded? With stuff like gmane, google-groups and list archives maemo/nokia is in for a world of hurt, legally speaking. regards, Koen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEf

Re: [maemo-developers] gstreamer launcher (proper video sink?)

2006-04-26 Thread David D. Hagood
Frantisek Dufka wrote: better resolution and better utilization of both main CPU and DSP. Or is there some catch why doing it on DSP makes better sense? AFAIK the main ARM CPU should be better suited for the task than the DSP. While I've not started working in depth on the OMAP1710, I do ha

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemp 1.2 SDK ?

2006-04-19 Thread David D. Hagood
Don wrote: Maemo 1.2 SDK? The easiest way to get the Maemo 1.1 SDK is by getting the following executable: http://repository.maemo.org/stable/1.1/installer/installer This script is broken on NIS machines, as it only consults /etc/passwd, and does not ypcat password. There really ought to be a

Re: [maemo-developers] 770 display failure workaround

2006-03-29 Thread David D. Hagood
This reminds me of a Computer Stupidities at Rinkworks.com: * Tech Support: "Sir, something has burned within your power supply." * Customer: "I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC.BAT that will take care of this." * Tech Support: "There is nothing that s

[maemo-developers] OMAP1710 docs?

2006-03-03 Thread David D. Hagood
TI is being stupid (IMNSHO) and does not have the documentation for the OMAP1710 processor available for download on their site - does anybody have it? I'd like to look at some things like enabling USB On-The-Go mode on the hardware. ___ maemo-devel

Re: [maemo-developers] Adding swapon/off to Jakub's Load-Plugin applet

2006-02-24 Thread David D. Hagood
Heike C. Zimmerer wrote: You're sure? Maybe I'm not up to date, but I remember figures in the order of typically around 100,000 or even as low as 10,000, depending of the kind of write cycle (like MLC) for today's standard devices. A pointer to the data of the device actually used by the 770 w

Re: [maemo-developers] Adding swapon/off to Jakub's Load-Plugin applet

2006-02-23 Thread David D. Hagood
Koen Kooi wrote: Please tell me I'm reading this wrong: 'swap file on the internal flash'. You do know that flash is broken after ~100k writes/cell, right? And you know that will break your 770, right? I think you are living in the past. Modern flash chips have a write endurance of greater

Re: [maemo-developers] Adding swapon/off to Jakub's Load-Plugin applet

2006-02-22 Thread David D. Hagood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions? How about hooking swapoff to the hotplug event for the MMC card cover opening? Maybe even insertion also. Yes, *please* hook the cover open/cover close events and enable/disable swap as appropriate. Also, please scan not just for swap files, bu

Re: [maemo-developers] Identifiers instead of English strings

2006-02-17 Thread David D. Hagood
Murray Cumming wrote: Is there some explanation somewhere about the use of these strange identifiers instead of English strings in the maemo source code. What is the advantage? Internationalization (I18N) - the strings are kept in a set of separate files, one for each language. The code then

[maemo-developers] RPMs for scratchbox damaged

2006-02-14 Thread David D. Hagood
Are the RPMs for scratchbox damaged? I've tried to install them but my system says they are corrupted. Has anybody else seen this, or has everybody else build from scratch (so to speak ;)? ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org ht

Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-developers] Gnumeric 1.6.2 and goffice 0.2 Released

2006-02-03 Thread David D. Hagood
Armin M. Warda wrote: (Cross post to maemo-developers@maemo.org from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hi, unfortunately this release of gnumeric lacks the ability to put an icon into the taskbar of the Nokia770, thus if you 'accidentally' minimize the running gnumeric app, you cannont maximize it and th