curious tv out

2009-10-23 Thread gary liquid
hi am on n900 so will be brief got chance to do some testing witrh n900 and projector tonight my n900 is a month old my n900 works in tv in at home my n900 worked with projectors tested at onedotzero my n900 failed at summit my tv out just failed to show on a projector here with me (it was

Re: QA queue determine required thumbs down for removal

2009-10-22 Thread gary liquid
There is no interface to pull apps manually. if testing identifies a blocker, the maintainer has no way but to leave it there wasting the other testers time. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/10/22 Niels Breet ni...@maemo.org: Hi, To not keep

Re: Optification of dev libraries

2009-10-20 Thread gary liquid
can't we just optify /usr/include and /usr/lib ? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Nathan Anderson nat...@andersonsplace.netwrote: Marius, Well, I agree dev packages are not really the target of a device. And as a dev I would probably feel comfortable moving things around (if they

Re: Git on Maemo

2009-10-13 Thread gary liquid
in the diablo extras repository is a package git-core i use this on my n900 to do all my git related activities. note however, it has 1 limitation - it works well using git: protocol, but it cannot do SSH updates (maemo garage uses this protocol) apart from that, its solid and should most likely

Re: Git on Maemo

2009-10-13 Thread gary liquid
apologies, yes nothing to do with SSH, but if the HTTP/HTTPS as Andrew said. gary On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.bewrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:08:32 +0100 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:01, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com

Re: Git on Maemo

2009-10-13 Thread gary liquid
i do it via ssh console as part of my n900 reinstallation notes i'm not sure why you would use the app manager since git is a console app ;) # git add the repositories: i use

Re: extras-testing delay ?

2009-10-09 Thread gary liquid
wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:01:20 +0100, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: hi, how long does a package take from -extras-devel to get to extras-testing It shouldn't take long, it probably depends on the size of the package. But I'll let Niels answer definitively. ive got a time

Re: Color wheel mockup

2009-10-05 Thread gary liquid
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.netg%2b...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Monday 05 October 2009 14:11:20 Thomas Perl wrote: Also, I have been thinking of implementing relevant parts of the code in Vala (and then either compiling the vala code to C source code for the

fremantle build-essential optify

2009-10-01 Thread gary liquid
hi, just setting up a few things on my tablet, i notice apt-get build-essential is 73.2MB getting the -dev libraries needed for libliqbase is another 40MB. how well does optify work on these - if it can be reduced drastically, on device liqbase development becomes easy. gary

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-29 Thread gary liquid
can i have a recap from what i know now, there are 2 sortof nearly good finger friendly color selection dialog tests in use in two different apps and some python test code all of which is better than the not very finger friendly but standard implementations. we now seem to have stopped dead

Re: What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

2009-09-28 Thread gary liquid
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: - Original message - the apps in maemo extras *should* be trusted because we, the community, trust the developers who put them there. Gary, I trust the community, but I really want to be sure. It is also because I like

MMS Implementation conversation

2009-09-28 Thread gary liquid
hi, this morning a conversation took place in #maemo which begun to discuss the specifics of implementing MMS in the n900 I have posted the conversation onto the wiki, but it requires extensive weeding and cleanup and converting into an outline and spec please get involved and have a go at

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread gary liquid
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:00 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: 2009/9/28 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:18 +0200, Thomas Perl wrote: Yes, we can probably add whatever we want in the Advanced color

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-28 Thread gary liquid
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:28 +, gary liquid wrote: for now, sure its the only practical way we are going to advance since we have a good idea what this may look like, how about we get down to sorting out where its

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-27 Thread gary liquid
hehe it was a very short enthusiastic message having the dual level dialog with easy colours on the front and an advanced button where we can use more fiddly configuration seems the nicest way. how the eventual dialog looks is not important to me, its the principle that matters. it allows a user

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-26 Thread gary liquid
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Thomas Perl th.p...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/26 Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: So how about a dialog that just shows n rows with 3 to 4 colors in each row. Those rows are in a panable area so it's easy to scroll them. Those colors are taken from a palette

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-25 Thread gary liquid
there is an lot of very good dialog here :) On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 08:28 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote: Hi! There are some important widgets which are deprecated without a replacement in Fremantle. Those widgets

Re: What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

2009-09-25 Thread gary liquid
the apps in maemo extras *should* be trusted because we, the community, trust the developers who put them there. it would take 1 bad report to have the software removed from extras. its a worrying scenario for some people, but this isnt the wild west and like all trust based mechanisms, people

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
:) this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important. if me as a user selects extras testing and installs a an app because anidel said his new version is there from that

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
please accept huge apologies for spelling of your name Aniello :$ On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: :) this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Simon Pickering s.g.picker...@bath.ac.ukwrote: this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important. if me as a user selects

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
it will have to be on IOU i have no job, no money, no anything. im actually surprised mrs lcuk let me go at all On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.comwrote: Apologies will be accepted in Amsterdam along with a bottle of beer :D 2009/9/24 gary liquid liq

what if...

2009-09-22 Thread gary liquid
i have been thinking and talking with pupnik in #liqbase a little this evening and I mentioned something that has been rolling round my head. what if i took the kick ass superior rendering of liqbase and tried something different. liqbase has always been really fast (sacrificing perfection with

we are maemo

2009-09-21 Thread gary liquid
Hi, Nokia is gearing up towards releasing the greatly anticipated N900 device which allows each and every one of us to use and create our dream apps in! They have listened to the community and it has sourced the best components it can to produce what I say is an outstanding piece of technological

Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL

2009-09-17 Thread gary liquid
. When dealing with licensing issues, if your application is GPL licensed you should look for the GPL-compatible licenses list: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses Cheers, -- Joaquim Rocha Murray Cumming wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:19 +, gary liquid

Re: Code cookbook for Maemo?

2009-09-01 Thread gary liquid
tero, great idea! on this subject, a couple of days ago i updated the wiki article on accelerometers to include a smoothing function (if required) which works really well on my x41 and stopped any jitter :) gary On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL

2009-08-29 Thread gary liquid
hi, I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples collection provided by nokia. ( https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemoexamples) When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source

Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL

2009-08-29 Thread gary liquid
haha maybe i should have opened my eyes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License /thread before it even started On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples collection provided by nokia

maemo extras assistant - not accepting my changes file

2009-08-22 Thread gary liquid
hi, i have got myself a package from debian which I require for a project. it has been built without change from the debian source and I produced a package and have been testing it on my machine. The package building gave me required .changes, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz files. the original

Re: maemo extras assistant - not accepting my changes file

2009-08-22 Thread gary liquid
solved, thanks to qwerty. the standard make me a deb script i use for libliqbase etc gave wrong stuff for this - i mistakenly thought it would just work the same way. meh! gary On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i have got myself a package from

Re: Using graphic input for user input, filenames etc.

2009-07-27 Thread gary liquid
sounds good :) http://liqbase.net/liq.20090728_013953.liqbase_net.scr.png On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Andrew Daviel ad...@triumf.ca wrote: A suggestion for tablet GUI/applications: I'd like to be able to enter a scribble directly as an input field (FYI, one could do this in NCSA

Re: Maemo will switch (completely?) to Qt?

2009-07-07 Thread gary liquid
actually, if you don't have working knowledge and experience with c++ and the sorts of compiler errors and warnings that are thrown out just jumping in and using your c code and experience to make a c++ app is going to be a nightmare. sure, the syntax is similar and you can use your core logic

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

2009-07-01 Thread gary liquid
is it possible to do tablet-tablet flashing? (serious question) most of us now have more than one device and since not all of us have linux or windows available (hiya GA), having a native solution would be a possible quicker workaround gary On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Ryan Abel

Re: Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

2009-06-24 Thread gary liquid
i have been caught in this exact scenario recently. and yes, if the library exists in extras or extras-devel then whilst building your application it will find and use them. there is a gotcha though: if you add NEW calls or references or headers into the library since you last updated, it will

Re: calendar-backend

2009-06-11 Thread gary liquid
is FASTER for normal day to day coding than scratchbox and copy and execute :) its got obvious serious drawbacks tho lol gary On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Jamie Bennettja...@linuxuk.org wrote: On 11 Jun 2009, at 21:08, gary liquid wrote: Hubert, Compiling my pure C in a C++ compiler

Re: calendar-backend

2009-06-10 Thread gary liquid
Sampo, I would also be interested in a C api to the same calendar backend. Obviously my calendar is very simplistic and sketch based, but it would be of obvious benefit to allow system calendar entries to be visible there :) Gary On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Sampo

Re: Application manager categories for Fremantle

2009-06-02 Thread gary liquid
i have always thought the categories you install software from on the device should more accurately represent the breakdown specified in maemo.orgdownloads (or vice versa) having 2 completely independent category lists seems fruitless and counter productive. (forgive me if they are already in

Re: Application manager categories for Fremantle

2009-06-02 Thread gary liquid
i have always thought the categories you install software from on the device should more accurately represent the breakdown specified in maemo.orgdownloads (or vice versa) having 2 completely independent category lists seems fruitless and counter productive. (forgive me if they are already in

Re: maemo UI

2009-06-01 Thread gary liquid
hi all, the current liqbase has a simplified text based book reader - its available in maemo extras. its got super sliq kinetic scrolling through the document and fullscreen tearfree rendering of booktext with an autoscroll function :) it remembers your position and allows you to select a new

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-12 Thread gary liquid
Niels, that sounds like a sage proposal to the initial uploading, what however happens when a package has gone through all this and been uploaded and active for a while with no real problems. If after a period of time reports start to come in of problems, would it be wise to put in place

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-11 Thread gary liquid
automated unit testing will not find all bugs or problems in perfectly packages software. manual human testing will not find all bugs or problems in perfectly packaged software. a combination of both involving common sense and prior history should minimize the risk of problems though. gary On

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-05-11 Thread gary liquid
playtest) gary On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Quim Gil quim@nokia.com wrote: ext gary liquid wrote: automated unit testing will not find all bugs or problems in perfectly packages software. manual human testing will not find all bugs or problems in perfectly packaged software

fremantle, clutter and the YUV overlay

2009-04-02 Thread gary liquid
hi, Most folks will know I've been mad enough to know I have created the liqbase ui in the YUV overlay for the n8x0 devices. I have not been able to get the fremantle SDK up and running smoothly and am under the impression the emulation does not support YUV mode. I would like to know how well

Re: Clutter in Fremantle (Alpha SDK)

2009-03-17 Thread gary liquid
Hendrik, I assume that to use clutter in your application is to somehow get the window manager to shutdown the opengl context and then open yours for the duration before once again reopening the window manager. A somewhat challenging prospect! Whilst its possible to use x11 compositing to bring

Re: Clutter in Fremantle (Alpha SDK)

2009-03-17 Thread gary liquid
Subject: Re: Clutter in Fremantle (Alpha SDK) From: gary liquid liq...@gmail.com liq...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:28:34 +To: Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fihenrik.hedb...@innologies.fi CC: maemo-developers@maemo.org Hendrik, I assume that to use clutter

Re: Clutter in Fremantle (Alpha SDK)

2009-03-17 Thread gary liquid
: Re: Clutter in Fremantle (Alpha SDK) From: gary liquid liq...@gmail.com liq...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:28:34 +To: Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fihenrik.hedb...@innologies.fi CC: maemo-developers@maemo.org Hendrik, I assume that to use clutter in your

Re: Screen orientation

2009-01-30 Thread gary liquid
the problem originates from so putting the issue centrally is the best option. gary On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Siarhei Siamashka siarhei.siamas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009, gary liquid wrote: the answer to the identification problem is by querying the xrandr x11

Re: Screen orientation

2009-01-27 Thread gary liquid
the answer to the identification problem is by querying the xrandr x11 extension library. http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xrandr.3.html Kamen correctly points out however that a user with the default installation of maemo does not need to query this interface, there is only 1 possible default

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

2008-12-01 Thread gary liquid
Graham seems reasonable enough. I just worry that testers are not as clear headed. gary On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Graham Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:34:17 gary liquid wrote: i don't think I follow with this extremely limited -devel

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

2008-11-26 Thread gary liquid
the help of any beta testers and we want to make life easy for them to get involved. gary (lcuk on #maemo) # ext gary liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] and now its indicated for us to make a complete

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

2008-11-26 Thread gary liquid
alike continue as they were before but without having complexities of multiple updated applications. gary On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: ext gary liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ beta versions in their own repo ] this worked nicely for a large

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

2008-11-25 Thread gary liquid
There should be a whitelist of applications to use from -devel with a method to add or select packages from within it. If I *choose* to get involved in the xournal beta testing and want to obtain it from -devel this should not effect the testing status of other applications which I am not

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

2008-11-25 Thread gary liquid
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:22 PM, gary liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There should be a whitelist of applications to use from -devel with a method to add or select packages from within it. If I *choose* to get involved in the xournal beta testing and want to obtain it from -devel this should

Re: Beyond Application Manager Categories

2008-11-07 Thread gary liquid
Removing the option to install applications listed inside our configured repositories takes away greatly from the system. The UI is at fault, not the actions it performs and data it contains within it. Gary On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, with the

Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

2008-10-22 Thread gary liquid
quim, I obviously think Nokia can support my project. At present liqbase is a usable beta quality application (which just got added to extras after an extensive testing run), but I believe it could be so much more. I have spent the last 6 months putting together the building blocks of an

Re: GtkPixbuf from Char buffer

2008-10-16 Thread gary liquid
arto, have you considered caching the downloaded file to disk and reading from there using the standard function? This would give you the obvious benefit of allowing offline usage and faster requerying. There isn't an infinite amount of memory available and having to download images everytime

Re: GtkPixbuf from Char buffer

2008-10-16 Thread gary liquid
i don't mind being wrong :) thanks Eero, it was the principle more than the specifics I was trying to indicate however. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, ext gary liquid wrote: have you considered caching the downloaded file to disk and reading from

Re: 'camera' application on Nokia N810

2008-10-02 Thread gary liquid
The camera is accessible by using the gstreamer media libraries. I make use of it within liqbase and extract live image data from the stream. For additional sources using the camera, lardman has started a barcode project which also makes use of the camera. If I remember rightly, you can export

Re: programming on the n800 itself

2008-09-23 Thread gary liquid
Hendrik, I build my application exclusively on the device in c. I have installed gcc and the primary development libraries required for my application and find the compile times for individual source files very acceptable. Of course when I need to rebuild the entire project I know its time to

Re: Please remove Benoît HERVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list

2008-09-06 Thread gary liquid
i see nothing wrong with this message. as an example of pseudo code it seems quite apt, however it won't compile on my machine due to missing grumphy dependencies. anyone know where I can get them from? On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Darius Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: What I get from him

Re: Remove Darius?

2008-09-06 Thread gary liquid
+1 On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a member of this list I am finding Darius' postings unacceptable for a -developer list. If he continues to post in this manner I would support his removal. Anyone else or is it just me? David

Re: Ooops!

2008-09-04 Thread gary liquid
heh, from now on, you are gonna be called Dave Diebold Neary :D On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Yesterday evening, on popular request, I committed a patch to the elections scripts to add a link to candidate declarations at the top of Step 2 of

Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

2008-09-04 Thread gary liquid
the touch screen resolution is even more than that, it has a native resolution of: x res of ~~~ 3500 units, and y res of ~~~ 3100 units. These are typically scaled to the screen by calibration process but are readable using the xsp extension. :D On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Eero Tamminen

Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

2008-09-03 Thread gary liquid
You obviously do not realise how touchscreens work. When you press in 2 locations the click point will be located at the centre of gravity between those points. This is why if you accidentally catch your screen with your wrist whilst operating with the stylus the pointer will shoot off in a

Re: Shell script copyrights - kind request

2008-07-17 Thread gary liquid
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Darius Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have noticed the following copyrights entries in shell scripts: no notice GPL copyrighted copyrighted .. Could you kindly tell if shell script is covered by GPL, should be

Re: Shell API to call maemo-mapper commands, functions, options ?

2008-07-09 Thread gary liquid
Darius, you star. I love eating bounties. Breaking into the wrapper and taking out the pair of delicious chocolate bars. Just biting into one makes chocolate coating snap and reveal the course coconut goodness from within sends me into bliss. m thanks for the memory, I will be sure to join

Re: System time in miliseconds for N800

2008-07-08 Thread gary liquid
nisa, I believe the following will supply timing to ms level. I'm not sure about it being relative to program start as I usually call it once at the start of a process and once again when I am done. Its enough for me to calculate fairly accurate FPS calculations (the only thing it was needed

Re: System time in miliseconds for N800

2008-07-08 Thread gary liquid
Thanks igor, thats fair enough, as I said it works for what I want it to and will hopefully be enough for nisha. Gary On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Igor Stoppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 19:51 +, ext gary liquid wrote: I believe the following will supply timing

Re: Shell API to call maemo-mapper commands, functions, options ?

2008-07-07 Thread gary liquid
Darius, Have you considered paying for the upgrade to the mapper application itself? It might already have the features you require and be commercially supported. One thing which puzzles me about what you are attempting to achieve however is how you can use the console whilst driving? Gary

Re: Power management is going to drive me mad!

2008-06-19 Thread gary liquid
George, I have a problem with my wifi at home which means when connected it will drain very rapidly. I use an ad-hoc connection which I believe prevents idling so drains my battery quickly. Other users report staying connected to their Infrastructure based wifi for days at a time. I personally

Re: Power management is going to drive me mad!

2008-06-19 Thread gary liquid
Benoît, Like I said, messy and complicated ;) Agreed though, the profiles for different device actions in different states should be configurable. Gary On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Benoît HERVIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/19 gary liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED]: George, I have

Re: Community council is a representative body - not community leadership

2008-06-16 Thread gary liquid
Hi Darius, I notice in previous emails you have been unhappy with moderated groups and enforced limitations yet you continue to use HTML mail and fill peoples inboxes with useless data. The 20k limit does not hit people very often, but infact saves them from having to download huge files when

Re: Portrait Maemo app

2008-06-08 Thread gary liquid
David, There are a number of options available to you, but each will depend upon your requirements. On the nokia device its not lack of options, but graphical bandwidth: the display cannot update fast enough to render full screen RGB graphics at fullspeed without some sort of tearing. Even