Running older applications under maemo5

2009-12-12 Thread Luis Listas
Hello I have a few specific questions. Is there any link that explains those? 1) Is it possible to install and run packages built for from older versions of tablets under Maemo5? For example, I see a lot of things for OS2008 that I would like to try (i.e KOffice, Easy Debian, etc). 2) What

Re: New N900 user - Few ideas...

2009-12-12 Thread Timo Pelkonen
Please keep in mind that you just can't take the symbian version and install it to maemo. If I remember correctly there was no ovi maps for maemo 6 months ago. And N95 had maps 1.x, N95 was released 2007... Ossipena 2009/12/11 Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com I'm sad Ovi maps is so

Re: N900 features

2009-12-12 Thread Mark Haury
sebastian maemo wrote: Hi everybody: One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a portable computer like my N770... :-) I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satisfy his

Re: N900 features

2009-12-12 Thread Mark Haury
Peter Flynn wrote: sebastian maemo wrote: Hi everybody: One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a portable computer like my N770... :-) I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked device, he has asked me to check whether its

Re: can't type numbers in contact phone/cell slots

2009-12-12 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:12, Jeffrey Mark Siskind q...@purdue.edu wrote: On the N900, if I click Contacts|All Contacts|New contact click on the entry bar for Cell then type blue arrow and a number key nothing happens. I can't figure out how to enter a number into any contact phone/cell slot.

where can I get a complete list of UI gestures, keystrokes, etc.

2009-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Where can I get complete user documentation for all of the UI gestures, keystrokes, etc. for the N900? Jeff (http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~qobi) ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: where can I get a complete list of UI gestures, keystrokes, etc.

2009-12-12 Thread Reggie Suplido
Here: http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Shortcuts_and_Gestures Here's the link to the power search page just in case you need to look for some more things: http://talk.maemo.org/msearch.php - Reggie On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jeffrey Mark Siskind q...@purdue.edu wrote: Where can I get complete

Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Josef Assad
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:07, Jeffrey Mark Siskind q...@purdue.edu wrote: In the URL entry bar in the Web browser on the N900, I can't type a ~. If I type th eblue arrow, Sym the virtual keyboard comes up. I can click on ~ and

Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad j...@donassad.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: Tap the ~, press space and then join the ranks of people upset by the broken, unobvious, unintuitive and just plain crazy behaviour of the character palette. I

Re: can't type ~ in browser

2009-12-12 Thread Josef Assad
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:48:49PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:33, Josef Assad j...@donassad.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:14:16PM +, Andrew Flegg wrote: ...what I'm arguing is that it doesn't make sense for it to look and (from a button point-of-view)

patch to (re)add support for bluetooth keyboards on N900

2009-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6685 has a recent post that contains a patch to xkb-data to (re)add support for bluetooth keyboards. I would like to apply the patch but to build the patch you need scratchbox and I don't have scratchbox set up (and don't know how to set it up). If someone