Postings tagged with Maemo
Miniature goes Telepathy
Thanks to the work of Dariusz and Alban we now have P2P via Telepathy for Miniature.
Maybe it's worth to notice that we use Maemo's contact chooser here, and that it blends perfectly with our Qt application (we still have some crashes on our side though). Nice job ...
About missing flights
Frequent fliers will know this, but to everyone else: If you ever should be that stupid to miss a flight, call the airline where you booked that missed flight as soon as possible. Otherwise they will cancel your inbound flight and bet on charging you an incredible amout of money for your previously reserved seat. For me they lost their ...
Using DBus as lock-daemon
Recently I found this comment in the source code I am working with:
// what if both processes read in the same time and write at the same time, no increment
Please! Don't do such things! Don't just leave such comments in hope someone else will come around and will fix later. Please take the time to apply a locking mechanism.
Obvious choice when dealing with files would be to create a lock file. Unfortunately creating a ...
GCC 4.5 - Awesome Release!
GCC 4.5 just was has been released yesterday. It's a really awesome release according to its summary of changes. My favorites:
- The -Wc++-compat option is significantly improved.
- Compilation time for code that uses templates should now scale linearly with the number of instantiations rather than quadratically, as template instantiations are now looked up using hash tables.
- Improved ...
QML Hype
So yesterday I've skipped the chance to watch some "exciting" QML demos in Helsinki. This was quite surprising to some of my KDE rooted team mates. They didn't understand how I could not show the slightest sign of excitement.
Well, but actually I wonder for months: What's actually the fancy and awesome, the brilliant new, the exciting part of QML? It ...
Logging facility for Miniature
On Maemo 5, log output from your app isn't always accessible to the user. This has created problems for Miniature bug reports (see bug #8124). To solve this, I created a "Game Log" screen which allows to filter the messages (by a given log level, I might want to allow combinations, too). It ...
Testdriving the UI Extensions for Mobile on Maemo 5
Reading about Nokia's UI Extensions for Mobile (sources available) I wanted to quickly try it myself. So I looked at the provided examples, and this video is the result of what I came up with (well, of course it is FOSDEM-induced). The provided API allowed me to easily apply my previous ...
First Miniature .debs sighted!
Thanks to Mathias, Miniature is now suitable for debian packaging. He also uploaded a first test balloon which at least allows you to move pieces around. Feedback is of course more than welcome.
Personally I wish the board's cell size could have been made bigger, but 60x60 pixels is already the upper limit. It is now up to us ...
Qt 4.6 for Maemo: It works!
Today at work, David King kindly informed me that there was some new Qt package in extras-devel. This could only mean one thing - I immediately fired up my scratchbox environment and installed the packages, trying to confirm that this new version would run with Qlom. And in fact, it was surprisingly painless. Thanks to autotroll, a simple QT_PATH env variable did all the magic, hooray! ...
Miniature - it moves!
How it begun
Show me your home screen!
To me the empty home screen* of the N900 looked like an invitation, so I tried to fill it up with useless stuff as quickly as possible. The home screen configuration menu offers app launchers (shortcuts), bookmarks, widgets and contacts. Let's go through all four options in detail:
- Shortcuts: I almost always have some tasks running in the background so launching an application would usually take three to four finger touches. Therefore the app launchers are extremely helpful to ...
Computer chess and the N900
My first chess computer
Years ago, when I was thoroughly fascinated by chess, I always wanted a portable chess computer. When I finally got one (a Novag Piccolo, for the odd chance someone else had the same device) I'd take it with me whenever possible. It got worn out quickly, moving the small plastic figures required more and more pressure to make the computer acknowledge my moves. For each move you first had to "touch" the figure you wanted to move. The computer would beep ...
Who wants my feedback for the Maemo6-Qt tech preview?
During the Maemo Summit there were several talks about the upcoming Maemo 6 platform and also about the transition from GTK+/Hildon to Qt. One of them - the "(Introduction to the) Harmattan UI framework" also mentioned where to get the code for the Maemo 6 UI Framework from. So I went there and cloned the two available repos (tech preview of the framework ...
Back from Maemo Summit 2009
So I am back from Maemo Summit 2009. Great people. Great show. Great talks. Great venue: Enjoyed it quite much to walk arround in the Westerpark, Marc-André loved the petting zoo.
Hotest topic, of course: The N900. Thank you Nokia for lending those devices: Feels so good to finally have one for personal use! Finally got ideas for some private N900 hacking when reflecting ...
Application Theming Tricks
From time to time applications need custom theming rules. Especially when the project has professional UI designers involved. So how to achieve this with GTK+?
Trivial Theming
Most easy and very wrong:
if (gdk_color_parse ("pink", &color))
gtk_widget_modify_bg (widget, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color);
This will break and look childish as soon as your users use a custom color scheme.
Better:
static void
style_set_cb (GtkWidget *widget,
GtkStyle *old_style)
{
GtkStyle *style = gtk_widget_get_style (widget);
if (gtk_style_lookup_color (style, "SecondaryTextColor", &color))
...
Well, and it is a phone!
So after months of denial it turns out, that the/we Maemo folks really built a phone!
GTK+ Hackfest is over
So the GTK+ Hackfest really ended yesterday. I absolutely enjoyed having all you guys arround me. I am absolutely confident, that all the ideas collected and exchanged here will lead to some great GTK+ 3.0 release. It cannot be said often enough, but even in our highly connected world face-to-face meetings are invaluable for our work. This can be understand as invitation to order your tickets ...
Linking to library.gnome.org
Recently the brave gtk-doc guys introduced a tool called gtkdoc-rebase, which updates external links in your API docs to point on the GNOME Library. The gtk-doc.make script has been updated to run gtkdoc-rebase on make dist. Unfortunatly all this pretty stuff doesn't work out of the box on Gutsy, as two premise have to be fulfilled to make this voodoo work:
-
The
index.sgmlfiles in the gtk-doc ...
Canvas Review
As announced by Murray already I am working for Openismus now. First task I got assigned was providing patches for some binding glitches in GooCanvas. Seems I complained too much about GooCanvas' code during that task. So Murray asked me to review GooCanvas, HippoCanvas and libccc to figure out which canvas would fit best for diagrams and reports in Glom.
As we have that nice canvas overview on the GNOME Wiki already, I added additional information to that wiki page. Thank you Emmanuele for updating the clutter records, btw. ...
