Re: How to create an icon on desktop on N900 and link my binary to that

You simply have to create a .desktop file associated with your program (don't forget to initialize dbus session with osso_init) users wil then be able to start your program via the menu and to add a shortcut on their desktop. you can check the developper documentation Fred Le 10/08/2010

Re: How to create an icon on desktop on N900 and link my binary to that

I thought the DBus initialization was used to allow only one intsnace of your program to be run, which is good on a handheld device ... I think you should let the user decide if he wants to put a shortcut on his desktop or not ? Fred Le 10/08/2010 17:29, Naresh Mehta a écrit : Hi All,

Re: Any new information on Developer Device Program?

Le 09/12/2009 02:23, Ian a écrit : Hi me too, I ordered it since they wrote to order it before the 21 of december. ordered it from where? I looked around on forum.nokia.com and I have nothing related to N900 anywhere..maybe I missed something/some link Ian Once the store's content is

read XML files

Hi, Is there a way to read XML files in the Maemo distribution ? If not can you recommend one available in extras ? If not can you recommend one ? I want to read keepassx xml files for importing in passwordSafe Thanks Fred ___ maemo-developers

Re: read XML files

Le 10/11/2009 09:27, Tim Teulings a écrit : Hello! Is there a way to read XML files in the Maemo distribution ? The GNOME XML library is available (should be libxml2-dev, libxml2). See also http://xmlsoft.org/. Thanks a lot It is also possible that QT has a XML library, too (I'm not

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

I think it is good to be able to keep maemo-optify out of Build-Depends : This way we can keep the same debian control file for Diablo and Fremantle. I suppose the Diablo builder will only ignore the optify header ? Fred On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com wrote:

Extras-Testing and Bug Reports

Hi, It looks like more N900 in the wild starts to translate into more people testing apps ... I see a few new (minor) bugs but no vote ... Is there a rule about testing translating into vote ? I don't see any rule against it in the extras-testing wiki page http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing

How to get an user friendly path description ?

Hi, Is there a way to get a User friendly description for a path ? ie see N900 Documents/toto instead of /home/user/MyDocsDir/.documents/toto ? Thanks Fred PS : Faheem already proposed the baseName glib function but it only gives the name of the file ...

Re: Garage down for a while

PWSafe 1.5.5a appeared in the repository : thanks to anyone who did it ! Le 15/10/2009 10:05, tero.k...@nokia.com a écrit : Hi all, Garage is down for a disk upgrade. It ran full and needs some more space. Estimate is in the ball park of an hour or so. Hope you understand. Thanks, Tero

Write file

Hi, pwsafe writes the file it creates in the $MYDOCSDIR/.documents (Documents) by default. No problemo in the SDK But testers have reported a problem in actual device : write error ! What rights does the app run with ? Where should we write files to ? I'm using gnome_vfs API to read, write

Re: Write file

Hello, Florian Boor wrote: Hi, This sounds like $MYDOCSDIR is not set on the device and the application ends up trying to write it to the root directory. Is it not ? Why is it set on the SDK so ? Where should we write files to ? /home/user/ or the documents directories below would be

Getting out of inactivity

Hi, I wonder what I should do to get signaled when the device is getting out of inactivity (screen blanking) ? libosso has an indicator for getting into inactivity mode (system_inactivity_ind) but I don't see one for getting out of it ... Or is it the same ? Thanks Fred

Re: Getting out of inactivity

Thanks a lot. It looks like it ! Fred Le 30/09/2009 10:25, daniel wilms a écrit : Hi Fred, have a look here [1], this might be what you want. Cheers Daniel [1] http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/mce-dev/dbus-names_8h.html#84c46d903ba9ab3b6e965e107e399852 ext Fred Lefévère-Laoide

Re: Getting out of inactivity

[1] http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/mce-dev/dbus-names_8h.html#84c46d903ba9ab3b6e965e107e399852 ext Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote: Hi, I wonder what I should do to get signaled when the device is getting out of inactivity (screen blanking) ? libosso has an indicator for getting

hildron_entry and activate signal

Hi, I can't manage to fiure the activate signal on a hildon_entry in the SDK And my code crashes on the real device (that I do not have :( ) Any hint or idea ? the same code works fine in Diablo with a gtk_text_entry instead of a hildon_text_entry ... here is the relevant code main-filter_tb

Re: hildron_entry and activate signal

and the callback function's widget parameter to see if they are the sam. 2009/9/29 Fred Lefévère-Laoide f...@lefevere-laoide.net mailto:f...@lefevere-laoide.net Hi, I can't manage to fiure the activate signal on a hildon_entry in the SDK And my code crashes on the real device (that I

Re: hildron_entry and activate signal

gtk_widget_activate() on the HildonEntry. This also should emit the right signal. Hope that helps! Conny On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:51 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote: Hi, I can't manage to fiure the activate signal on a hildon_entry in the SDK And my code crashes on the real device (that I

Re: hildron_entry and activate signal

Le 29/09/2009 11:38, Claudio Saavedra a écrit : El mar, 29-09-2009 a las 10:33 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide escribió: Hi Cornelius, I tried Enter and Return on my keyboard : no dice ! I suppose I'll try the gtk_widget_activate way for debugging purpose. Can anyone confirm this behavior

Re: PUSH N900 (Was Re: N900 usb host + power charge)

That certainly works (as proven) but it's not what I would like to do. For my project this is probably already taking to much space. For your info the project proposal I am working on involves adding more buttons to the device. The best for me would be to simply implement a usb-hid device.

Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

Cornelius Hald a écrit : Hi, whenever I try to open a HildonNote using the Fremantle Beta2 SDK, my app crashes with a segfault. This is the last message I get: Assertion 'c-io_event == e' failed at pulsecore/socket-client.c:197, function connect_io_cb(). Aborting. When running the code

Re: Fremantle SDK: Segfault when opening HildonNote

Cornelius Hald a écrit : On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:05 +0200, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote: I noticed that too ... I thought it was linked to the sound server not being available ... ? Ah right, doing: run-standalone.sh pulseaudio Thaks for the tip : I didn't think of trying that ! inside

Re: Autobuilder for maemo extras repository

Thanks, I'll take a look Fred - Original message - 2008/6/6 Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looks like it works ... Can this pb be linked to the fact that I have a passphrase associated with my ssh key and that I may not answer the passphrase question as soon as it arises ? If that

Re: Autobuilder for maemo extras repository

Thanks Graham and Ed I'll try that tomorrow ;) Fred - Original message - On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 17:34 +0200, ext Fred wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the autobuilder : I managed to have gnokii OK but then when I try with an hildon app, configure doesn't find the modules : my

Developping DBus Services

Hi, I had an idea in the early hours of the morning. I think it would be very nice for users to be able to use their data in different applications and particularly contacts informations ie : - use addresses or GPS coordinates in MaemoMapper - use email addresses in a mail client - use phone

Re: Developping DBus Services

Ross Burton a écrit : (you forgot to CC the list, replying back) On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 11:42 +0100, Fred Lefévère-Laoide wrote: Thanks Ross for your answer but the service I envision would need to provide information about any available contact ... In that case why doesn't Evolution Data

Re: problems with installing tapioca

I think Tapioca is only available on OS2007 which is not available on 770 (except for Hacker Edition) did you try minisip ? Fred harini satyanarayanan a écrit : Hi, I need to install a VOIP client on the N770. I need an application whose source code is available and the application

Re: problems with installing tapioca

Documentation Do you know of any other VOIP client that suits my neeeds. Thanks in advance, Harini On Nov 5, 2007 10:18 AM, Fred Lefévère-Laoide [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Tapioca is only available on OS2007 which is not available on 770 (except

Re: Anyone know where to get the VMWare application for maemo development?

maemo I believe Jason Whelan a écrit : please excuse my stupidity if this has been posted somewhere and I missed it, but what's the root password for this VM image? Thanks Jason ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: Maemo SDK 4.x beta

And changing the name of libraries for pkgconfig Eero Tamminen a écrit : Hi, ext Klaus Rotter wrote: Rafael Proença schrieb: Is this a bug or a new feature? Neither. This is called API break, as you can see here:

VMWare Chinook

Hi, Is there any news on the VMWare for Chinook front ? I'm trying to download the torrent right now and it says 24 days remaining ... I won't be able to recompile phonelink before the N810 comes to market ... Any info will be wellcome ;) Fred ___

Re: VMWare Chinook

I found this ... http://setanta.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/maemo-sdk-appliance-release-03/ It was discussed a little bit earlier here : http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/28602 Sorry for not searching enough ... Fred Fred Lefévère-Laoide a écrit : Hi, Is there any news

Timer function

Hi, I plan to write a software metronome and I wonder what would be the best way to get a timer precise enough for that purpose ? The other problem is what's the best way to make a short sound (eventually corresponding to a note ...) Thanks for your help. Fred

Re: Problem with registering a program as service

Hi Jean-Luc, I'm not sure if it's still true but in maemo 2 you could only use com.nokia as a prefix for your service name ... Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello all, Currently I port claws-mail to maemo who has first release published on garage. But I have a problem to registering

Re: Asking for information VERY IMPORTANT

Install osso-xterm magda chelly a écrit : Hello, I'm a student preparing a project at Nokia N800, and actually, I didn't begun it because I'm still trying to acceed to the shell of the equipement. In afct, to do anything you must enter, for example, a line command. So, I ask you please to help

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Span filesystem across both SD cards?

I suppose you could just boot from MMC and then install everything on it ! I don't see how you can compare a N80 and the 770 ??? Fred sebastian maemo a écrit : Hi Fran: I've got 1GB card. 128MB is the internal memory of my 770. And that is ALL I've got to install applications. Since it is

Re: [maemo-developers] apt-get problem

Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Fred Lefévère-Laaoide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whenever I try apt-get update (from the command line or through the Application Manager) I get a Connecapt-get: Symbol lookup error : /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.10: undefined symbol: _ZN11Globa That looks more

Re: [maemo-developers] apt-get problem

Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Fred Lefévère-Laaoide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whenever I try apt-get update (from the command line or through the Application Manager) I get a Connecapt-get: Symbol lookup error : /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.10: undefined symbol: _ZN11Globa That looks more

[maemo-developers] osso-xterm

Hi, I have updated my oss-xterm to the latest ... and it doesn't launch anymore ... I tried to delete and reinstall it but to no avail ! Any idea of what I could do to get my console back ? Thanks Fred ___ maemo-developers mailing list