Einstein is an emulator of the Newton MessagePad by Paul Guyot. Some
items of interest to the list:
1. Paul has a working port of Einstein to the N800; I have verified
it on my own box. The port is unfortunately too slow to use at the
moment: it's unoptimized and typically takes 30
Since the recent modifications to maemo, bugzilla appears to have
broken. I'd report the bugzilla bugs to bugzilla, but bugzilla's
bugzilla bug reporting is broken too. :-) I love recursion.
For example, whenever I receive an update on one of my bug reports,
the URL looks something like
Two somewhat non-developer topics:
1. YouTube playback has significantly worsened after the update, at
least on my box. Now the videos cannot keep up with the audio and
get way way out of sync quickly. Can anyone else verify this?
2. I really do appreciate the efforts to improve the
On Apr 18, 2007, at 5:20 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
ext Sean Luke wrote:
What I gather here is that GTK widgets can't specify maximum size
and,
They can.
They can? All I see is set_size_request(), which sets minimum
sizes. How do you set the maximum size? (still no preferred size
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
- set a specific dialog as closeable or minaturizable
This might be something that you could control from Matchbox theme
file, see its documentation at:
http://matchbox-project.org/
Then you could create a theme that does that and install
On Apr 16, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
The problem is not widgets telling what is their maximum size
(doesn't fit to available space) or minimum size (doesn't show enough
useful information to the user), but somehow things deciding
what is the the optimum size for them. Programmer
On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
This is just that string. Before you know what space the string
can or should take you need to check the sizes for all the widgets
contents, take into account the expand etc. attributes in the co.
widget hierarchy etc.
I'm missing the problem
On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
#2 of course might have to be modal depending on the operation.
But #1 NEVER has to be modal,
I don't understand. Infoprints are never modal, they don't even
take focus.
No, you're right, they're never modal, at least from my current
On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Tapani Pälli wrote:
The *right* thing would be to make all maemo dialogs and
notifcations:
1. Resiable
2. Movable
3. Persistent (so next time you reopen the app, the dialog is
pops
up in exactly the size and place you put it last time)
This would
On Apr 12, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
By the time user was able to start moving notifications,
they go away (within 3 secs I think).
As I've already mentioned, I've found at least two counterexamples to
this in Nokia's own apps: the most famous being the email deletion
On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
If one wants all dialogs to be movable, one can just set suitable
-use_dialog_mode policy option value in the matchbox-window-manager
startup script: /etc/osso-af-init/matchbox.sh and restart the device.
(and if you make a mistake and matchbox
On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
For the moment I'm experimenting with various floating windows for
various utility functions -- my drag-and-drop example on my N800
website, say.
Do you have an URL?
cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/
[Perhaps I might issue that entire webpage
I'm wondering if anyone has had previous experience in moving windows
in maemo. I'm experimenting with various things which involve small
movable or resizable windows. Yeah, yeah, I know that Nokia's UI
guidelines foolishly declare that you can't move any windows, and
that all
I've been working behind the scenes on a wrapper toolkit around GTK
to work around GTK bugs and misfeatures, significantly simplify
development, and add some seriously needed features (like object
persistence and cleaning up signals)
Daniel Amelang asked if the toolkit would be open. The
Marius Gedminas wrote (a month ago!):
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:41:15PM -0500, Sean Luke wrote:
- Why is it in python that you can attach a function, and an instance
variable, to an instance, but you cannot attach a method?
...
There's a distinction between functions, unbound methods
Daniel Elstner wrote:
However, I think he's wrong in picking on GTK+ as the culprit for some
of the UI annoyances. For instance, I don't think it's true that GTK+
only deals with simple input one character at a time. I'm pretty sure
it's possible to pull off Newton-style handwriting as
On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Daniel Elstner wrote:
OK, that was just one example. Another is that GTK+ (with Pango) has
really sweet support for Unicode and complicated scripts. The comment
that GTK+ supposedly handles Unicode makes it sound as though its
support were rather limited or not
Levi, surely you misread my statement.
Sean
On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Levi Bard wrote:
May I say that I expected rather more antagonism than I've gotten
even with my obnoxious follow-up. The professionalism of this list
is impressive.
Wow, disagreement is unprofessional?
When you post
Kalle wrote:
2007/1/25, Sean Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- It's true that different (Newton vs. GTK+) doesn't mean
better.
But IMHO it doesn't require rabid fanboyism to make a cogent argument
that GTK+ is distinctly inferior to OS X
Yes, obviously a widget toolkit has no chance
that much in fixing GTK+ and maemo. I think it's within grasp.
That's what I hoped the essay would prod.
So that's pretty much it from me on the subject for a while. Now
maybe I'll go hack on the dang machine.
Sean Luke
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On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Levi Bard wrote:
No one should get offended by any facet of this discussion. I
won't get
religious about an object store and if there is someone out there
who is
passionate about having extra gutters, you should be able to voice it
without recriminations. :)
When, or is, an OS X Flash utility going to be made available for the
N800? And will it be made available Universal rather than just PPC?
I realize that this device has only been out for two weeks, and that
the OS X flasher was probably a labor of love by an employee at
Nokia. But I
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