Postings tagged with Nokia
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!
