Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, (standard disclaimer: below are my personal opinions) Thanks for taking the time to reply. Who/where is the best place to contact in regards to my Ovi Store questions? Today, I received a notice that the Ovi Store is new and improved but the Maemo section is still

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-12 Thread ronan.maclaverty
. -Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers- boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Michael Cronenworth Sent: 12 May, 2010 16:19 To: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo? Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, (standard disclaimer: below

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: On 7 May 2010 09:48, tero.k...@nokia.commailto:tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: Very good point, seriously. Yet I think Marcin had ever better: (Hm. Is Maemo showing its Debian roots?) Good attempt for joke but failed. Debian has 'testing' branch which users can use,

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-10 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 10 May 2010 14:09, Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: If the issue is with Browser, just kill it and it will be restarted, just don't start it too many times in a row or you trigger SW watchdog. Browser can with long time usage also cause some swap fragmentation (= extra swap

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-10 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Dawid Lorenz wrote: On 10 May 2010 14:09, Eero Tamminen eero.tammi...@nokia.commailto:eero.tammi...@nokia.com wrote: Actually, what I'd love to be able to do is simply flush swap space periodically. I've noticed that once swap space usage passes approx. 20%, device gradually becomes

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia czwartek, 6 maja 2010 o 18:27:34 Eero Tamminen napisał(a): ext Michael Cronenworth wrote: At most, the SDK should have been released two weeks ahead of the final release. Agree. Let me write few words about my view on maemo development. PR 1.2 introduced at least two nice things

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi On 7 May 2010 09:53, Marcin Juszkiewicz mar...@juszkiewicz.com.pl wrote: I wonder what so hard is in making PR 1.1.2 release which will give Qt 4.6 as standard (rather none of nokia apps use it) with 1.1.3 following it with few other small updates. We have May now and first talks about

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I was wondering the same thing: why is it so hard to provide a 1.1.2 image with Qt 4.6.2 installed? +1 If PR 1.2 has too many problems to be released before *few* days, please release a 1.1.2 with the updated qt,

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread tero.kojo
-Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers- boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Nicola Mfb Sent: 07 May, 2010 11:34 To: Andrea Grandi Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo? On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Dawid Lorenz
On 7 May 2010 09:48, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: Look, the N900 is a consumer electronics device. That means that normal people, like your mother, the guy you passed on the street and the person drinking coffee in a cafe use it. Those people cannot handle crashes and bad quality. It really is

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi, On 7 May 2010 11:44, Dawid Lorenz a...@adl.pl wrote: Releasing test-and-strictly-developer-aka-geek-oriented images on regular basis would be simply great. Think of it like extras and extras-testing/devel - yet not for apps, but full-blown OS images. Normal users should strictly stay away

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: [forwarding to the list too] On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: [...] Later on when 4.6 got final it might have made sense, but as Eero said, the release is based on quality and not calendar. And the 1.2

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 7 May 2010, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: -Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers- boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Nicola Mfb Sent: 07 May, 2010 11:34 To: Andrea Grandi Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Why should I write

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia piątek, 7 maja 2010 o 13:21:53 Matan Ziv-Av napisał(a): When you say 1.2 tree had moved forward, do you mean that the source packages in PR1.2 SDK are not the source of the actual packages that will be in PR1.2? Can we get updated source packages? Leaked image has newer packages then

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 13:21 +0200, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: ... I am specifically interested in hildon-desktop packages (hildon-desktop, hildon-home, hildon-status-menu, etc.), and libhildon. Those are all developed in completely open Gitorious.

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 13:21 +0200, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: ... I am specifically interested in hildon-desktop packages (hildon-desktop, hildon-home, hildon-status-menu, etc.), and libhildon. Those

RE: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 14:13 +0200, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 13:21 +0200, ext Matan Ziv-Av wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: ... I am specifically interested in hildon-desktop packages (hildon-desktop,

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Sascha Mäkelä
I would be already happy if the Qt Simulator in Qt SDK would run like PR1.2. Currently as it is I'm stuck on my development, because I cannot test the Qt 4.6.2 Maemo features like WA_Maemo5PortraitOrientation. Sascha ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Sascha Mäkelä sascha.mak...@gmail.com wrote: I would be already happy if the Qt Simulator in Qt SDK would run like PR1.2. Currently as it is I'm stuck on my development, because I Qt simulator doesn't get the maemo specific goodies; it's not PR 1.1 level either,

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Ville M. Vainio vivai...@gmail.com wrote: Qt simulator doesn't get the maemo specific goodies; it's not PR 1.1 level either, it's just it' It's just a modified version of desktop Qt. If you ever feel like buing a cheap logitech flat keyboard, don't. cannot

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-07 Thread Benoît HERVIER
Luckily you can test that stuff in scratchbox... But scratchbox isn't installable on n900... -- Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Software - http://khertan.net/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-06 Thread Daniil Ivanov
Hi Michael! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: The continued delay of PR 1.2 has caused me to pose this question. Without customized packaging, I cannot reliably publish applications to the global maemo.org repositories at this time. Also having APIs in

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-06 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Daniil Ivanov on 05/06/2010 01:39 AM wrote: By commercial solution do you mean DRM? Simply the ability to sell an application for profit. I'm a stanch anti-DRM supporter. Thanks, Michael ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?

2010-05-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, (standard disclaimer: below are my personal opinions) ext Michael Cronenworth wrote: At most, the SDK should have been released two weeks ahead of the final release. Agree. With a little over a month now on the clock, people can only begin to speculate as to how poor Nokia's release