Re: Qt to be available under the terms of the LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
g here, either. I'm sure it's very exciting for OEMs like VMware to now have the option of using Qt rather than GTK in their closed-source UIs. Perhaps it's also now an option for Wayfinder. But these people had money, and the option of a commercial licence anyway. Am I missing someth

Re: Qt to be available under the terms of the LGPL

2009-01-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Bruce Stephens wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> Am I missing something big? Please say I am :-) > > You're only missing that sometimes even for proprietary software, "no cost" > vs "rea

Re: N810 WE

2009-01-15 Thread Andrew Flegg
.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle Hope that helps, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Beta testing a simple communication package

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Flegg
lain masochist, and are able to > ssh you way through your tablet's file system, please drop me a note. Definitely. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member

Diablo auto-builder: broken

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew Flegg
Hi, The Diablo auto-builder is broken. No updates to the build logs since 2009-01-23T21:45: https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/?C=M;O=D Anyone from the maemo.org team looking into it? Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo

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

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
er It's still in development, and isn't ready for end-users yet, but already allows you to play with some of the new kinetic scrolling Hildon widgets and have fun building up a new Ubuntu & Maemo-inspired platform. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@

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

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> >> An example of this is Mer: > > Are those "open-source elements of Nokia's Maemo platform" already > coming from maemo 5? Yes. As I said

Re: introducing friendscard -- a browser-less, gesture-based facebook client

2009-02-05 Thread Andrew Flegg
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Non-free projects in garage (was Re: introducing friendscard -- a browser-less, gesture-based facebook client)

2009-02-05 Thread Andrew Flegg
omepage and some download space. However, non-free software isn't going to use the VCS and there are other solutions for proprietary apps to have homepages and some download space. What's the benefit to those projects, and to maemo.org, of providing these services to non-free projects? Cheers,

Re: Non-free projects in garage (was Re: introducing friendscard -- a browser-less, gesture-based facebook client)

2009-02-06 Thread Andrew Flegg
ds.maemo.org and - in future - maemo.nokia.com. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

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

2009-02-07 Thread Andrew Flegg
27;ll also need to be some testing to see what happens in the App Mgr's package view when there are two versions available to install, and the lower priority version is higher. It might make assumptions which override apt. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://w

Re: 3G model?

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Flegg
ming this year (RX-51, Maemo 5, ...). For Ryan's summary of the RX-51 rumour mongering, see: http://maemo.org/community/council/community_highlights_for_december_2008-part_i-january_2009-part_ii/ For the software side: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle HTH,

Re: Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition Alpha 2 released

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
[1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3847 -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Fwd: Community Council elections: nomination deadline approaching!

2009-03-06 Thread Andrew Flegg
emo-commun...@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists

Mer article on LWN

2009-03-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/322693/386fdf3634a8457f/ The full LWN weekly edition is published every Thursday and, if you don't already read it, I suggest you do. I'd even encourage you to subscribe for a high-quality weekly online Linux magazine. Cheers, Andrew [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/

Re: Trademark and use of "maemo" name in version string

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
ould > I come up with some other string? The Maemo Packaging Policy describes doing exactly as you describe, so would seem to be a justified use of the "maemo" string: https://maemo.org/forrest-images/pdf/maemo-policy.pdf HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org |

Community updates for diablo (specifically Application Manager if nothing else)

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
using the above mechanism? In particular, I don't think we should use this power (if able to us) to bulk-update everyone to Mer in about 6 months' time ;-) Cheers, Andrew [1] https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3845#c11 [2] http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#Translation

Re: Community updates for diablo (specifically Application Manager if nothing else)

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Flegg
(assistance always welcome, of course - especially with the osso-software-version-rx*). If we move quickly, we can work within the timescales Ryan's suggesting for the transition to the new package categories: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2009-April/054566.html

Re: Community updates for diablo (specifically Application Manager if nothing else)

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Flegg
ing "maemo-community-updates" - all it'll do, from the sound of it, is increase the trust level of "maemo-extras" (I wouldn't even make it certified, if that could be avoided). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/

Re: Reduce fremantle button spacing

2009-04-16 Thread Andrew Flegg
priority lists IMNSHO. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Reduce fremantle button spacing

2009-04-16 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 22:51, David Greaves wrote: > Andrew Flegg wrote: >> >> I don't know the answer to your question, but the "right" answer >> [...] > > Disagree. I quoted "right" because I /believe/ that's the answer the platform a

Re: New home for Easy Debian?

2009-04-28 Thread Andrew Flegg
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ * I've got lots of webspace and bandwidth. * maddler's got maemopeople.org - that may be suitable if he's asked nicely. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
xt a lot of thought with regards to my original RFC, but thought it worth rehighlighting to get it into the debate. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: debmaster priorities [YOUR INPUT HERE]

2009-05-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
:-) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Proposed addition to Application categories: Sharing plugins

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
ed more important than end-user experience. Cheers, Andrew [1] DHCP struggling at JavaOne (again) so can't check what the most appropriate category actually is. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair

Third party package policy in Fremantle

2009-07-04 Thread Andrew Flegg
the first place for further discussion and analysis. It could be that the design of the solution is perfect, and the implementation has few bugs. But I'd prefer to have known that before people started noticing oddities in Fremantle. Cheers, Andrew [1] http://talk.maemo.org/ -- Andrew

Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew Flegg
s a compositing window manager. On a desktop this means you never receive an "expose" event since your window is always exposed on an off-screen buffer. What is the best way of implementing (2) in Maemo 5? Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
ggestions in this thread so far, over the weekend, in Python on Diablo device & Fremantle SDK. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-devel

Re: Any plan for PyQt and Harmattan (official support)?

2009-07-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
are all off now. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
mantle SDK, I can't test there :-( > The same window-state-event signal should still be relevant on Maemo 5. Have you got any sample code which uses window-state-event I could use as a basis for comparison? Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.b

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
, the value of that property doesn't seem reliable enough (or, rather, the focus-out fires before the window is minimised) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:26, Thomas Perl wrote: > 2009/7/10 Andrew Flegg : >> Have you got any sample code which uses window-state-event I could use >> as a basis for comparison? > > See the function window_state_event at: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/gpodder.git?a=

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-12 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:09, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:28, Faheem Pervez wrote: > >> FocusOut event, serial 20, synthetic NO, window 0x161, >>    mode NotifyNormal, detail NotifyNonlinear > > I had a thought about using focus-in/out and checki

Re: Documentation for Libosso

2009-07-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
his is now "org.maemo." - is this a Pythonism?) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.m

Diablo auto-builder root setup broken (was Fwd: [diablo]: horizon 0.0.3 FAILED)

2009-07-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
/garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/horizon_0.0.3/ -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Diablo auto-builder root setup broken (was Fwd: [diablo]: horizon 0.0.3 FAILED)

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:32, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > There appears to have been a successful build a couple hours later. > Are things fixed or is there still trouble? Seems to be better now (as does #3354, I doubt there's a connection though) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg

Re: Fremantle font sizes

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Flegg
;re seeing bigger fonts. I noticed a font change too, but I could swear my beta2 install has *smaller* fonts than beta1. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers m

Re: Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
does show when *I've* uploaded something, so either way, it shouldn't be hard to make a UI which shows the complete build queues of everything. HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair

Re: How to place a button in the fremantle title bar?

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
uot; arrow at the top-right of the screen. Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: How to place a button in the fremantle title bar?

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
2009/7/21 Claudio Saavedra : > El mar, 21-07-2009 a las 08:53 +0100, Andrew Flegg escribió: >> >> How does Modest put that "Move" button there? Next to the "Back" arrow >> at the top-right of the screen. > > I said it three times already. Fullscreen

Re: How to place a button in the fremantle title bar?

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
eers, Andrew [1] http://bleb.org/software/maemo/modest-move.png -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: How to place a button in the fremantle title bar?

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:18, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:00:54AM +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> Yes, I understand that. But a developer, on seeing a screencast, >> thought it part of the normal WM chrome. Indeed, if you look at the >> screenshot[1]

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
hacky, though. But if there's no better way which the Hildon developers/Nokia recommend, that's fine by me. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
2009/7/24 Kimmo Hämäläinen : > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:54 +0200, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> My basic code structure is: >> >>     * while timer fires: >>           - check is-topmost >>                 - if false, cancel timer and return > > Probably Py

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:57, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> Yup, indeed. (PyMaemo doesn't expose the method, but you can get the >> property). > > Hmm, here I can see this method just fine (Scratchbox X86 target)

Re: Optimal battery life considerations in apps

2009-07-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 13:17, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Andrew Flegg wrote: > > It is at this same page, but on the top ("Python Hildon Manual"). I'll > fix the link to the python-hildon documentation to point th

Maemo summit sponsorship: process

2009-07-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
. If you are thinking of applying for sponsorship to the summit, you may wish to put your thoughts on who and how it is decided gets the cash: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=306984#post306972 Thanks in advance, Andrew [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009 -- Andrew Flegg

Re: Search system in Fremantle

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 08:29, daniel wilms wrote: > > the internet search-applet is dropped in Fremantle and there is no > replacement for it. Of course, presumably there's nothing stopping anyone writing a home plugin which provides similar functioanality? Cheers, Andrew --

Re: Subversion and libesd?

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Flegg
g done by someone else (not that I, rightfully, > have a choice). The underlying question still being one of: is Fremantle Extras-Devel going to be seeded with packages from Diablo; or were Jeremiah's activities limited to "just" some key libraries? Cheers, Andrew -- And

Re: Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
sIfAppropriate(window) { if (isPortrait()) window.set(HILDON_PORTRAIT_SUPPORT | HILDON_PORTRAIT_REQUEST) else window.unset(HILDON_PORTRAIT_SUPPORT | HILDON_PORTRAIT_REQUEST) } ----8<---- Hope that helps, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
Build-Depends should be enough to say something like "if there is a dependency on something else on the queue, build it first". Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:00, Ed Bartosh wrote: > 2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg : >> >> Bypass dput and use scp directly?debian/control's Build-Depends should >> be enough to say something like "if there is a dependency on something >> else on the queue, build it

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:17, Ed Bartosh wrote: > > Build-Depends is OK. scp is hackish. Why is scp hackish? I use it in preference to dput all the time. What value does dput give for the extras autobuilder? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bl

Re: Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:25, Ed Bartosh wrote: > 2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg : >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:17, Ed Bartosh wrote: >>> >>> Build-Depends is OK. scp is hackish. >> >> Why is scp hackish? I use it in preference to dput all the time. What

Re: upload to extra

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Flegg
refused": https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3354 Does it work if you upload via the web assistant? https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/index.php Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: upload to extra

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:47, Fred wrote: > Andrew Flegg a écrit : >> >>     https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3354 > > I keep getting this error : > > $ dput -f diablo-extras-builder pwsafe_1.5.0e_source.changes > > Uploading to diablo-extras-builder (via sc

Re: WRT or W3C widgets

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Flegg
with a widget. HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: WRT or W3C widgets

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
r cross-platform development, and Maemo *was* mentioned in the introduction (although I've not seen any evidence of this being anything but aspirational at the moment). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Co

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
roles are reversed: Qt is Nokia-supported; whilst Gtk+ is community-supported. There should be enough disk space on the upcoming devices to have both runtimes side-by-side, and you can even use Qt on Maemo 4: http://qt4.garage.maemo.org/ Hope that helps, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- m

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Flegg
rly in the areas of: * Dialogue boxes (at bottom, buttons at right) * Kinetic scrolling/panneable areas * Finger-friendly app menus Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___

Re: Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Flegg
ating their pages will test your screen scraping processes (he says, doing *lots* of screen scraping for other things). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers m

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-05 Thread Andrew Flegg
s (multimedia, contacts, location etc.). What if I just want to write a simple calculator app? Thanks in advance, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing lis

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Andrew Flegg
ell. I suspect the D-Bus approach is better, though? Cheers, -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: New apps for fremantle with Qt?

2009-09-07 Thread Andrew Flegg
ost a simple example (and screenshot) of a Qt program which looks like a "normal" Maemo 5 app? What's the Qt AppMenu API? Does Qt do more work on behalf of the user (for good or ill) in terms of rotation support? etc. etc. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
uff in *random* .something directories (apart from the known i18n'ed ones) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@m

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
B /opt so if someone does, they can repartition as you say. 1GB sounds about the right point for now. Is there already a gparted port to Maemo; if not - should be straightforward given it's ext2 rather than ubifs/jffs2. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
cement. I'd strongly recommend the main enhancement, however. Comments, as ever, welcome. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 16:22, Attila Csipa wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 17:09:17 Andrew Flegg wrote: >> Of course, if maemo-optify were really clever, it'd also handle >> patterns like the above and produce "/opt/bob/share/foo", but I'd >> con

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
at*, that could be something we have a QA check for? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
[I haven't got Matan's original] On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 23:41, David Greaves wrote: > Matan Ziv-Av wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Andrew Flegg wrote: >>>   * Use of /opt is perhaps now a QA requirement for Extras >>>   * Can we somehow add a /opt check into mi

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
platforms (and even Maemo) is a hack, so I'd prefer developers used the autoconf approach of --datadir or similar, with only a few things (startup script, icons, service files, desktop files) being either directly installed to /usr (or symlinked to /opt). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
understand the "limited to" bit - or your desire to switch. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
sage of a symlink? ;-) > Of course, we should add some way to control the heuristic of > maemo-optify, but I think it is important that it does something > reasonably by default. Absolutely (hence my keenness on it being more FHS compliant by using the

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:52, Graham Cobb wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 07:53:37 Andrew Flegg wrote: >> The use of /opt/_package_/ on Diablo, Fremantle, Mer, Ubuntu is >> entirely concordant with the FHS: > > Well, not really.  That FHS section is clear that

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
at may be). (Maybe) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
worked to date, but then OS2005 packages ended up in /var/lib/install before OS2006 came along. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-d

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 13:38, Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg writes: >> >> That changes things, if /opt is going away (in a Maemo Update?) [...] > > Careful. :-) The /opt directory itself is of course not becoming illegal > in some way, and your optified packag

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 16:12, Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg writes: >> >> Instead of using a fixed prefix of /opt/maemo/, use >> /opt//. > [big snip] I'm not going to get into a point-by-point rebuttal of these. But installing stuff in /opt on Maemo

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-10 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 16:20, Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg writes: > >> Although a unionfs solution would be a bit more further dev on Nokia's >> part, it will reduce the developer complexity and gives us a real >> world solution now. [...] > > Ye

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
rticle in question *is* five years old, and I believe the preferred union FS solution wouldn't be UnionFS, it'd possibly be aufs or one of the others explored by Valerie. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.or

Re: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Flegg
FHS needs to be registered with LANANA, not individual packages (and so only if you use /opt//). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developer

Re: Application data backup on Fremantle

2009-09-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
or system settings > -- "bookmarks" for bookmark > -- "applications" for 3rd apps list Sorry, to clairfy the language - if "documents" doesn't work, it's not "deprecated" it's "unsupported". The former means it will continue to work

Re: Opt Bof? (was: Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages)

2009-09-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
y which already existed from a previous version? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Opt Bof?

2009-09-21 Thread Andrew Flegg
avoid it, but now my test package won't build in the diablo autobuilder :-( Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@m

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-23 Thread Andrew Flegg
to what they should be doing? Is it just a case of the "Quality criteria" being more clearly communicated? Perhaps the bullet list of points should be embedded in the /packages/ UI? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chai

Re: Allowed "sections" for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
the package interface? Or maybe the reason is > another one? The definitive list is: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#New_list_for_Diablo There's a bug about this ambiguity here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5055 Hope that helps, Andrew -- Andr

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Flegg
t this point sounds the most sensible, possibly using the same names and stuff for easier inclusion at a later date. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-devel

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Flegg
-extra (or whatever). Cheers, Andrew PS. Posting rate not diminished now I'm not on the council ;-) -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
a to ship that update* (assuming that it is shipped at all) will be very effective at all. Unless I'm missing something and Nokia aren't just willing to ship a libhildon update, but you're willing to ship one when "we" (i.e. the widget developers and libhi

Re: Fremantle: Opening URLs and local files

2009-10-06 Thread Andrew Flegg
us-send --system --type=method_call --dest="com.nokia.osso_browser" --print-reply /com/nokia/osso_browser/request com.nokia.osso_browser.load_url string:"%s"' --type string >8 > For "mailto:noth...@icandy.de"; you get an error that the p

Re: Maemo 5 SDK Beta & Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-06 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 23:37, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > Anyone updated to the latest Ubuntu 9.10 beta can tell me if she had > any issue with the Maemo 5 SDK beta? Initial impressions seem OK to me. I've not updated to the final SDK release yet. HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg --

Re: Auto builder broken?

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Flegg
I'm sat next to Jeremiah, and we'll talk to Niels in the next break. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ - Original message - > Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > > how did you upload your .changes to extras assistant? > >        I use scp.

Re: Maemo Summit /opt BOF notes...

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
pkg/info/bounce.list. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Nokia hands startup animation

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
's it (a handy file to move when trying to recover from a full rootfs during package installation). HTH, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org http

Re: Git on Maemo

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
ompiled with USE_CURL_MULTI". Compiling from source with CFLAGS=-DUSE_CURL_MULTI and a whole lot of libcurl3-dev etc isn't helping. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing l

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
le.org/index.php/jaffa/2008/03/09/improving_application_start_up_mockup Presumably there's something in the .desktop? I've certainly noticed that a window for my apps is opened with the title from the icon with black content. If the app fails to start, that window is then destroyed. Cheers, An

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
th that screenshot before fading in the actual window. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Issues with Python and maemo-optify (was: Re: Maemo Summit /opt BOF notes...)

2009-10-13 Thread Andrew Flegg
lcome. Cheers, Andrew PS. I said we'd have problems with Python. Probably Perl and Ruby too, if they were more prevalent on the platform. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-de

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
e same time, the user *perceives* it to be faster if there are multiple steps. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/m

Re: Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

2009-10-14 Thread Andrew Flegg
k screen for 2 > seconds or even less. Not me, I've seen enough usability labs that I appreciated it as a nice hack to avoid some of the inevitable delays :-) It's still a hack, of course, and things should still start as quickly as possible. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg

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