Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-30 Thread Ryan Abel
on your N900. Without good format support, there's hardly any point. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ryan Abel
in a more mobile-friendly manner. Having a number of useful default profiles will help here. FBReader's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness, so having a native book reader would be a very welcome change! -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member

Re: GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

2010-04-29 Thread Ryan Abel
to useful for paging not to use it in portrait. Also: less wasted screen space in portrait. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo

Re: Building Maemo OS from Source.

2010-03-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote: ext Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: Dnia czwartek, 18 marca 2010 o 19:59:25 Samir Faci (Dev) napisał(a): Hmm.. any one know if meego will be completely open source?. Or is it too early to know for sure at this point. It was already said

Re: Building Maemo OS from Source.

2010-03-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote: ext Ryan Abel wrote: Well, except for the part where Nokia ends up marketing it as MeeGo. Oh, and Harmattan's, apparently, MeeGo, too, and it definitely has closed stuff at the platform level. Yeah . . . not confusing at all

Re: Building Maemo OS from Source.

2010-03-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:50 PM, igor.sto...@nokia.com igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote: From: ext Ryan Abel [rabe...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 March 2010 23:43 Will it be advertised as such? Wording I've seen so far leads me to believe it'll be advertised as MeeGo not MeeGo-compliant. I guess we'll

Re: Building Maemo OS from Source.

2010-03-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 19, 2010, at 6:15 PM, igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote: From: ext Ryan Abel [rabe...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 March 2010 00:06 Well, in Harmattans case, because it aint MeeGo at all. For anything else, well, I don't know. Until we know exactly how much of the platform is actually MeeGo it's

Re: A proper home page in maemo.org with help wiki for each app in Extras

2010-02-12 Thread Ryan Abel
On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Sascha Mäkelä wrote: While writing help files for my current project, I came to a conclusion that it would be easier to have the app simply point to a wiki page. This way a new version of the app would not be needed for

Re: Using the Flasher Utility as a Nokia Software Update (NSU) Replacement?

2010-02-04 Thread Ryan Abel
On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Is it possible to adapt the existing Flasher utility, used to update the Nokia Tablets under Linux, so it can be used as a replacement for the Windows-only NSU? I am not a developer. I am an end user looking for a way to update my Nokia

Re: Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

2010-01-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Jeremiah Foster wrote: Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug report, it looks pretty closed. ... What should we do here? Move this to non-free? I am very aware of the meaning free here. Mauku was uploaded

Re: Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

2010-01-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Ryan Abel wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Jeremiah Foster wrote: Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug report, it looks pretty closed. ... What should we do here? Move this to non

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Jeff Moe wrote: I've seen frequent mentions of how distinct maemo.org is from Nokia. But the reality seems that nothing at Maemo can really happen without Nokia's tacit approval. Is there anyone that has server access that isn't paid (directly or indirectly) by

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 20, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Moe wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010 19:21:18 Ryan Abel wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Jeff Moe wrote: I've seen frequent mentions of how distinct maemo.org is from Nokia. But the reality seems that nothing at Maemo can really happen without

Re: How to destroy your community

2010-01-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 20, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Aldon Hynes wrote: Yet perhaps this is some of the problem. It seems like the community of people working with devices running Maemo might be better served if it was more distinct. As is noted on the maemo.org Terms of Use page, the site is hosted as a 'public

Re: [maemo-devel] List emails subject prefix

2010-01-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 17:45 + schrieb Edward Johns: I feel a little cheeky asking this when I've only just joined the list but I was wondering if anybody else thinks it is a good idea to have mails to this list (and the other

Re: [maemo-devel] List emails subject prefix

2010-01-19 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Hartti Suomela wrote: Additionally I do not buy the wasting space argument but that is very much personal opinion based on my preference of using laptop much more than my handheld device for reading these emails and I understand that long prefixes could create

Re: Follow up from QA meeting on IRC

2009-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 12, 2009, at 3:17 AM, Dave Neary wrote: So - how can we make giving the feedback and voting on applications easier? Oh, this one's easy. Get some servers so rating a package isn't either impossible or a 20-minute endeavor. Even motivated testers like myself don't have much

Re: Package does not end up in DIABLO extras-devel

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Bruce Forsberg wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Till Harbaum / Lists li...@harbaum.org wrote: the same happened to gpxview 0.8.13-1. I emailed Niels about this but he did not yet reply. The Nokia folks must be having a N900 release party and not

Retail FIASCO image for users of real operating systems

2009-11-10 Thread Ryan Abel
Any news on when tablets-dev might be updated for those of us without access to Windows XP installs? You know, most of us with pre-release devices. ;) http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N900.php is 404 as of now. ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-04 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Graham Cobb wrote: But the update description does not help with testing: (a) it is user friendly text, not a developer changelog and (b) the description is vs. the version already in Extras not vs. the last extras-testing version. I'd still love to see a

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Till Harbaum wrote: snip/ I'd just like to interject that any new process like this is going to have growing pains. You have two options to deal with the kinks that inevitably appear in an untried process, help to smooth them out (See the QA process = bug

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Qole wrote: Your reply continues to sound like the middle class moms who argue for private schools. How will our children ever get ahead if they go to that school down the street? It is full of common children who will only slow our gifted children down.

Re: The issue of version strings

2009-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:45 PM, David Greaves wrote: So you're thinking that a git sha1 is 'suboptimal' ? I thought Shopper v.fc42f5c26bbc257cf782679f7b40075e05322647 Don't make me hit you! ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: My first day as maemo.org distmaster

2009-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Valerio Valerio wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 14:03, Carsten Valdemar Munk c...@cs.au.dk wrote: Starting from today, I will be officially starting my work as maemo.org distmaster. Nokia

The issue of version strings

2009-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
One thing I think it might be worth working on is the user- friendliness of the version strings of packages in Extras. We want the Application manager to be as friendly and approachable for the average user as possible and long incomprehensible lines of alphanumerics are a surefire way to

Re: Extras-testing Marathon – Next Saturday (Oct 31)

2009-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Valerio Valerio wrote: If you’re a developer, make sure your applications are in good shape before the testing marathon. Any developers who would like Bugzilla products before the marathon starts, please email me the information listed on this page[1]:

Re: Wiki Action Group: first task

2009-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Ryan Abel wrote: On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Thomas Waelti wrote: (PS: There is also http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Generalantilles/Sandbox/ Wiki_Action_Group which comes up earlier in searches...) Deleted. Just

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-18 Thread Ryan Abel
Banging my head into the wall on this over the past few days. Seems like it's a newfangled HAL issue, but I haven't been able to divine anything about how I should go about making this thing cooperate. Can somebody who has a clue about this stuff please just throw me a bone here?

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-15 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 15, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Joaquim Rocha wrote: Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Roald de Vries wrote: This is not exact. It might work in a terminal emulator, but it is not a universal thing. Tab and Esc are useful in a lot of programs (such as Esc for stop current page

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ryan Abel rabe...@gmail.com wrote: So qwerty12 compiled a patched xev, I grabbed keycodes and I spent a couple hours trying to convince the device that it'd be a really great idea for shift-fn-b to send

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ryan Abel rabe...@gmail.com wrote: So qwerty12 compiled a patched xev, I grabbed keycodes and I spent a couple hours trying to convince the device that it'd be a really great idea for shift-fn-b to send

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 14, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Joaquim Rocha wrote: What hardware keyboard layout are you using at the moment? You can check this by going to the Settings-Text Input. English, Nederlands (bizarre). Editing the basic en_US character maps in the symbols file had no effect. Could this end

Re: Maemo 5 Keymaps - The Saga of Pipe Tab

2009-10-14 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Roald de Vries wrote: My own picks for remaps (tab I can handle in X Terminal, although the shortcut bar no longer editable = more sacrifice for the sake of simplicity) would be and . And how can you do (bash) command line editing and use vim without the

Nokia hands startup animation

2009-10-13 Thread Ryan Abel
Anybody managed to dig up the hands startup animation? I'd like to start trying to update my boot screen packages for Fremantle. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: extras-testing delay ?

2009-10-09 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:20 PM, gary liquid wrote: because extras-testing is available on device isnt it ? does a user have to enter details for extras-testing and also extras- devel? i was under the impression -testing was included, but disabled by default? Only Extras should be included

Re: Proposal: XSBC-Bugtracker in debian package

2009-08-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Graham Cobbg+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: I presume a garage tracker is an acceptable URL.  If Ed ever gets the chance to do his autobuild from garage proposal he could default this to the associated tracker! Acceptable, but probably not preferable. I'd like to see

Re: Proposal: XSBC-Bugtracker in debian package

2009-08-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Graham Cobbg+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2009 16:23:43 Ryan Abel wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Graham Cobbg+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: I presume a garage tracker is an acceptable URL.  If Ed ever gets the chance to do his autobuild

Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

2009-07-01 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:43 AM, jarmo.ti...@nokia.com wrote: One step forward and two steps back. Happy to see that you considered this Beta release to be at least one step forward (before ending up being one step backward :) It's hardly every anything else with Nokia. :( No PPC binary,

Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

2009-07-01 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Kees Jongenburgerkees.jongenbur...@gmail.com wrote: There's absolutely no reason why not. Really, though, why don't we just open source it so we don't have to deal with ANY of this insanity? There are other project the 0x flasher out there and not enough

Re: Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Fremantle and Diablo released

2009-06-30 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, jarmo.ti...@nokia.com wrote: The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has released installation packages for Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool Beta for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 Diablo devices and coming

Re: [GSoC 09] IM Client for Canola - report 1

2009-06-04 Thread Ryan Abel
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Thiago Bolaum bol...@gmail.com wrote: Telepathy: Barring extreme circumstances, always go with what's bundled on the platform. Especially with resource-limited mobile devices. ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: Application manager categories for Fremantle

2009-06-02 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: I think it's time to define the Application manager categories for Fremantle.  This has been done for Diablo here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories and we should update that page to talk about

Re: Application manager categories for Fremantle

2009-06-02 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Joseph Charpak jchar...@worldnet.att.net wrote: On a related note, packagers are doing a good job of not putting libraries in user/whatever (so they do not appear in blue pill mode), but we still do have some libwhatever packages in the list. It would be good to

Re: Unique serial number accessible programmatically on device?

2009-05-20 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - (or failing that some other unique number like the Bluetooth MAC). Just use the WLAN MAC like Nokia.___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: debmaster priorities

2009-05-12 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 14:39, Quim Gil wrote: I think we could have a better prioritization of the tasks of the debmaster, if not for this sprint at least for the next(s). It would be really great if this type

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-04-30 Thread Ryan Abel
the package by reducing its severity. Assuming the package has a bug tracker, sure. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Problems Updating N810

2009-04-29 Thread Ryan Abel
away with no sign of what went wrong. /etc/init.d/tablet-browser-daemon restart Should fix it for you. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: New home for Easy Debian?

2009-04-27 Thread Ryan Abel
raising the limits. We can always beg hardware from Tero later. ;) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: mafw, trackerd and apps with external media files ?

2009-04-22 Thread Ryan Abel
don't), but /home will be mounted on the internal card in Fremantle. So, presumably, /home/user/ MyDocs/.sounds would be one logical choice. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: Transitioning to the new package categories

2009-04-15 Thread Ryan Abel
On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Quim Gil wrote: ext Ryan Abel wrote: I'd like to propose that we start actively transitioning to the new categories in the beginning of May Note that first we should get a one and only list of categories. Now we seem to have 3 (Community proposal, Maemo

Transitioning to the new package categories

2009-04-14 Thread Ryan Abel
-- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Fremantle extras?

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
-February/003336.html -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Fremantle extras?

2009-03-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 07:14 -0500, Ryan Abel wrote: [1]http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2009-February/003336.html I did (and I joined that mailing list after finding it via google), but I didn't see a clear conclusion

Re: Frets on Fire on Fremantle

2009-03-05 Thread Ryan Abel
On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: So, no multitouch screen.. right? ;-) No. (Something we've know for a while, actually. ;)) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo

Re: 3G model?

2009-02-18 Thread Ryan Abel
/open-source/news/2008/09/nokia-unveils-maemo-roadmap-plans-for-3g-internet-tablet.ars [3]http://maemo.org/news/announcements/07a262bcedec11ddabdc07d2d12051a151a1/ -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

Re: 3G model?

2009-02-18 Thread Ryan Abel
device, and we're getting it within the next 6 months. An awful lot of people on here seem to be entirely ignorant of these facts, so I recommend that you do some reading up on the links that Andrew and I have provided in this thread. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Email addresses in debian/changelog

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan Abel
On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote: How does this sound? Sounds wonderfully sensible. ;) Quim? Soumya? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org

Re: Maemo on Google Summer of Code 09 - Help needed

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan Abel
/ -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Maemo on Google Summer of Code 09 - Help needed

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan Abel
months. Oh, right, mad props to the first person to get a virtual lightsaber going on the RX-51. ;) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo

Re: Opt-in betas in the Application Manager

2009-02-09 Thread Ryan Abel
smoke testing less effective. I guess the next question, then, (which arguably belongs over on - community) is whether it's time to add a third section to Extras. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo

Opt-in betas in the Application Manager (was Re: Application Manager and Extras-devel: Dealing with unstable software)

2009-02-06 Thread Ryan Abel
in the Application Manager? (Related, I've filled http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4081 for ignoring specific updates) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org

Re: Fremantle won't run on N800/N810?! (was Maemo for commercial development (was Re: N810 RIP) )

2009-01-30 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - I don't recall if there was talk about a Nokia-provided hacker edition of Fremantle.  I suspect there won't be, as it didn't gather a lot of community development on the 770 and with projects like Mer creating a community-supported build already, I suspect Nokia will

Re: N810 RIP

2009-01-29 Thread Ryan Abel
[2]http://maemo.org/community/council/community_highlights_for_december_2008-part_i-january_2009-part_ii/ [3]http://maemo.org/news/announcements/07a262bcedec11ddabdc07d2d12051a151a1/ [4]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Aptitude for Maemo

2009-01-23 Thread Ryan Abel
On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Marsaud wrote: In my humble opinion, aptitude should be added to the main seed of Maemo; why is it not already the case? Because 95% of Maemo users would never use it and flash space isn't free? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: N810 WE

2009-01-15 Thread Ryan Abel
/community_highlights_for_december_2008-part_i-january_2009-part_ii/ -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Feature upgrade has given me the bluez - users must remove my app to upgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Ryan Abel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, tz tho...@mich.com wrote: This is why NOKIA has to link the tools/sdk packages instead of me doing so in extras. Actually, no, this is why you shouldn't put packages that don't belong in a section with a user/ prefix in user/. . . . Application Manager won't

Re: Application Manager and Extras-devel: Dealing with unstable software

2008-11-27 Thread Ryan Abel
- Original message - First, I assume you mean before pushing it into the STABLE repository. No.  Extras-Devel is for betas, unstable, and things which aren't ready for the general user to access. If I have something there I usually if not always leave a note to TURN THE REPOSITORY OFF

Re: Application Manager and Extras-devel: Dealing with unstable software

2008-11-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 26, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Sarah Newman wrote: Disclaimer: I have little practice with pinning packages. If Maemo doesn't support this feature from Debian (haven't tried it yet,) then maybe it should. It does, it just lacks UI support in h-a-m. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Application Manager and Extras-devel: Dealing with unstable software

2008-11-25 Thread Ryan Abel
many significant bugs, are you sure you want to install it?), or even some sort of apt pinning system to ignore certain updates. What are your ideas? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

Let's make a deal . . .

2008-11-17 Thread Ryan Abel
willing to provide patches to make your life even easier. All you need to do to utilize this resource is contribute 20 or 30 minutes a week to bugs.maemo.org Simple, isn't it? :) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-11-11 Thread Ryan Abel
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for the new categories to be officially adopted, we need translations to all the supported languages: en_GB es_MX nl_NL pt_BR no_NO fi_FI it_IT fr_CA da_DK en_US pt_PT sv_SE fr_FR es_ES ru_RU de_DE for these

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-09 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the current AM is a pretty unfriendly place for browsing a long list of available applications. In the past, I kept saying that I don't want the AM to turn into a portal for applications, that should be left to the

Re: What category should network filesystems like OpenAFS go under?

2008-11-09 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, tz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the whole application manager apt-get dists debian system is going to be so brittle that the only SAFE way to get an application on to your system is with Application Manager in blue-pill mode, then there should be a user/cli

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-11-03 Thread Ryan Abel
Just a heads up. The list will be finalized tomorrow and make its way to the packaging policy (hopefully) by the end of the week. Any changes after tomorrow should be proposed on the wiki page.[1] [1]https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-11-01 Thread Ryan Abel
the hardware is capable of really. Considering the hardware is already doing 720p with only NEON optimizations, well. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https

Re: AM features (was Re: Application Manager, debtags and Tracker)

2008-10-31 Thread Ryan Abel
(unless you are having fun making them, of course). I've always found visual aides more effective than just text when describing UI ideas. Besides, it's good practice. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-31 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:17 AM, tz wrote: Nokia has already said they will never support it out of the box, so the next best thing would be to have something available to fully integrate it. It's coming in Maemo 5. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-30 Thread Ryan Abel
-developed UI, and the community certainly has a few ideas for its improvement. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: App manager open development (was Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories)

2008-10-30 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 30, 2008, at 3:41 AM, Quim Gil wrote: ext Ryan Abel wrote: Yes, a structured plan with enough open-endedness to keep the creativity flowing would be best. A Diablo-based community branch (perhaps combined with osv-c) might be helpful as a test-bed for some of the wilder ideas

Application Manager, debtags and Tracker

2008-10-30 Thread Ryan Abel
://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Main-view-mockup.png [3]https://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Tag-search-mockup.png -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Glen Ditchfield wrote: Ryan Abel wrote: KeyEnglish i18n Examples user/development ProgrammingPy2Deb In the other 10 cases, the English string is the same as the tail end of the key. For consistency, could the English string

Re: Needing help with dead unit.

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan Abel
to the correct page for your unit? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
] Thoughts? [1]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
the Application Manager to be updated to update the section list. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Application manager category view proposals

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forcing packages to comply with the definitive package list] The reason I like doing this Application Manager-side

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Ryan Abel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So after a fair bit of discussion, we've arrive at a suitable list of package categories: Excellent! Just for completeness, what about also listing All and Others? These need to be translated

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
in windowed mode? Or just leave it as-is and let people switch to fullscreen if they're really bothered by it? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

2008-10-28 Thread Ryan Abel
, and I hope Nokia backs up their claims of increased openness for Fremantle RSN. The community has plans, Nokia, but they're really hard to act on unless we know what you're up to. Help us to help you. :) -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-26 Thread Ryan Abel
What about something like powerlaunch? Music playback is a pretty common use case, and having to take the tablet out of your pocket to change the volume or the song is a pain. Some hooks into dsme/mce so you can issue commands with the screen turned off would be a nice feature. -- Ryan

Re: Location services not available?

2008-10-24 Thread Ryan Abel
, as in Maemo 5, applications use geoclue [1] as their main source of location based awareness. With the push for more standardized software, geoclue is up there as a 'must-use'. Just, fyi, http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2037 -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-24 Thread Ryan Abel
into Extras? He was having some trouble last time I asked. . . .) [1]http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/moredimmingoptions/ -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-23 Thread Ryan Abel
be interested in anything than their own proprietary, accessory peddling mess. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: How to get a general utility package cross-listed from tools to extras?

2008-10-17 Thread Ryan Abel
, and because it seems to be generally useful to a fair number of people, you might as well make it easier for those people to get to it by putting it in Extras. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

Re: How to get a general utility package cross-listed from tools to extras?

2008-10-16 Thread Ryan Abel
been a big problem, and the Tools repo just adds to it without bringing any really useful definition between itself and Extras. The packages wont show up in the Application manager anyway, so there isn't much point in keeping them segregated. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair

Safety through education or the Red Pill mode wiki article

2008-10-16 Thread Ryan Abel
]http://wiki.maemo.org/Red_Pill -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Quality assurance and testing for Extras

2008-10-07 Thread Ryan Abel
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Re: Community Maemo distribution

2008-10-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Quim Gil wrote: As another shot how about rewind 'Some drops are so popular that the DJ will rewind or reload OS Reloaded ? That sounds too much like The Matrix Reloaded, which churns my stomach just thinking about it. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community

Re: Maemo Matan edition.

2008-10-06 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: snip / Um, yeah, this is basically exactly what the plan is for the community edition. . . . -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: Maemo Matan edition.

2008-10-06 Thread Ryan Abel
community versions needs cooperation from Nokia, direct use of apt-get, or a different front end for apt- get. Such a front end should support Maemo-Flags (for automatic reboot, for example). It'll work fine with community updates, the packaging just needs to be handled properly. -- Ryan

Re: Community Maemo distribution

2008-10-05 Thread Ryan Abel
thoughts from the Nokia guys? Any alternative suggestions? -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

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