RE: [maemo-developers] New list spin-off?

2007-02-01 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> - Maemo is a community of developers, if end users end up here is > because they don't have another mailing list where to get support. Nokia > is not providing that space nowadays. The InternetTabletTalk web forum > is doing a great work in this sense, though. We need to decide what we > want to

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

2006-07-31 Thread Michael P. Lococo
I think what Chris, me and others are really looking for is the alarm framework for application notification, not the mere RTC alarm. >>> >>> There is no alarm framework >> >> I would have expected such framework after the longish discussions on >> the mailinglist some time ago (effective

Re: [maemo-developers] library updates

2006-07-20 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> If the application needs a particular version of the library, or higher > than (for whatever reasons, not just ABI compatibility), then the package > should declare that -- that is not a hack; if the application does not need > a newer version than is on the device already, then this question bec

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: 802.11g Ad-Hoc Link?

2006-07-07 Thread Michael P. Lococo
>> It occurred to me that the fastest way to transfer data to the 770 is >> over an ad-hoc 54Mbps link. However, it looks to me like the WLAN >> driver is going into 802.11b (11 Mbps) mode... ... > This is, AFAIK, purely a driver issue for modern wireless hardware. This doesn't answer your questio

Re: [maemo-developers] Frustrating power downs...

2006-05-03 Thread Michael P. Lococo
>> > One time it was drained when I had the audio player opened. I had it >> > play a part of an audio book and didn't bother to close the cover >> > after it was finished, just left it lying next to my bed. The next >> > morning it was powered off and the battery empty. This happened only >> > onc

Re: [maemo-developers] Bug with GtkCellRendererToggle?

2006-04-19 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> While developing an example Eagle application > (http://code.gustavobarbieri.com.br/eagle/examples/vareditor.py) > that uses GtkTreeView and GtkCellRendererToggle I noticed that > it doesn't work as expected. There are several bugs in bugzilla about gtk widget rendering problems, one of which is

Re: [maemo-developers] Zapped wtmp...

2006-04-12 Thread Michael P. Lococo
>> There's no need to link it to anything. If the file isn't there, then logging is turned off - at >> least that's what should happen. > > Wrong, this just deletes everything that is stored prior to this. And no, what you assume is > wrong. Of course the log files should be erasable, and if user

Re: [maemo-developers] Building deb packages for the Nokia 770 is very easy

2006-03-31 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> Some applications do separate functionality and depend on > external packages when necessary (the gpe stuff does, for > example), but you should do so unnecessarily... Clearly, I meant to say that external dependencies should _not_ be used needlessly. Oops, Mike ___

Re: [maemo-developers] Building deb packages for the Nokia 770 is very easy

2006-03-31 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> I know Nokia recommends only depending on maemo but can I depend on something else if it is already packaged for the 770 ? The problem is that application installer doesn't automatically resolve dependencies. If you get an overly complicated dependency tree you end up in rpm hell, except with .

Re: [maemo-developers] maemo - virtual keyboard replacement and alternative input methods

2006-03-02 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> Someone on #maemo told that I may just have to develop a GTK input method. This is the going rumor. To my knowledge no has has actually done any work on an alternative input, although there have been a few inquiries. I think one hitch is that it is difficult to switch back and forth between in

Re: [maemo-developers] intercepting magnet induced sleep mode

2006-02-28 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> network connectivity is hard wired to shut down with the > cover closed. Future firmware upgrades may make this more flexible. Note that there is also a bug filed against this behavior, with the proposed solution being to check for network connections before putting the interface to sleep: http

Re: [maemo-developers] Where can I find the sources for the load-plugin?

2006-01-13 Thread Michael P. Lococo
The authors e-mail address is on the page linked in the application catalog. I recall reading some time ago (but can't find the link now) that the load plugin was released under a very restrictive license. This may be oversight or intent on the part of the author, but you'll probably have the bes

Re: [maemo-developers] Audio enabled dev-platform?

2006-01-12 Thread Michael P. Lococo
>>Not having any way to output audio with the current dev image makes it >>useless for me, and having to install the normal image and get root, >>xterm and ssh working on it is a tad painfull for something which I do >>relativly frequent. ... > improving multimedia support is one of priority area.

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Installing packages in extra storage?

2005-12-14 Thread Michael P. Lococo
> The only problem: both 'free', '/proc/meminfo' and the little > status bar plug-in all report far more memory in use than I'd > expect to see. I _know_ I deleted the contents of > /var/lib/install (as well as ~/MyDocs), and when I install new > programs I see my memory used go up. free and mem