A short introduction about N9 camera stack:
Camera stack for N9 is built on top of V4L2 subdev and media controller interfaces.
Planet maemo: category "feed:0cec9bc8adfcea0d21344f7faf8eb24b"
If you are using PR 1.1 then you can simply enable zoom during video recording.
Just create a file /etc/camera.conf and add the following lines:
[debug]
recording-zoom = true
restart camera, enjoy and send postcards to the Harmattan camera team :)
I hope someone will create an Ovi store app for that ;)
If you care about the readability more than you care about the eye candy then that's for you ;-)
1) You need to enable developer mode and ssh to the N9.
2) # mkdir -p /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/libmessagingwidgets0/style/
3) # vi /usr/share/themes/blanco/meegotouch/libmessagingwidgets0/style/libmessagingwidgets0.css
4) Insert the following lines:
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleItemMessageIncoming {
font: $FONT_FAMILY 32px;
}
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleItemMessageOutgoing {
font: $FONT_FAMILY 32px;
}
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleTimeStampLabelOutgoing {
font: $FONT_FAMILY light 32px;
}
BubbleItem MLabelStyle#BubbleTimeStampLabelIncoming {
font: $FONT_FAMILY light 32px;
}
5) # su - user
6) $ killall -KILL messaging-ui
7) Enjoy :-)
I'm using Twitter plugin for Contacts and Conversations to twitter on my N900.
Twitter recently moved to OAuth. Problem is the Maemo package is outdated and seems to be unmaintained.
I did some research and came across a blog entry about exploring OAuth-protected APIs and some code. Nice idea but not usable for me.
I ended up sitting down and writing a small python script that will re-route your HTTP requests to api.twitter.com after adding all the OAuth bills and whistles, read the reply from twitter and send it back. Neat ? :-)
There's also supertweet.net which I've discovered after I finished writing my script but seems they don't support all of the twitter API call while my script does that.
The script is simple without much error checking but it's been working for me for a few days already.
Last thing, I'm not interested in running a service like supertweet. I'll not be implementing the full OAuth protocol. Need to use it ? Register your own application.
git clone git@gitorious.org:twitter-proxy/twitter-proxy.git
Next step: Thinking of maintaining the twitter plugin for Maemo. I already compiled the latest code and it sort of works fine :-)
A serious limitation of the N900 connectivity subsystem IMHO is the inability to create multiple connections. One can only have one connection at a time.
The gitorious repository now contains a broken mms-manager, a non functional mms-ui (because I changed the DBus interface ;-)), a preliminary mms viewer and a broken network connection manager. How pretty is that ? ;-)
I've been redesigning the DBus interfaces and I think I reached something. The UI can be easily adapted after that.
However, I'll be on vacation until the end of February. I can't work on mms until I'm back.
I'll try to commit and push the code I have on my laptop but the stuff will still be broken.
This is just a quick status.
Good wishes for the newly married couple ;-)
As promised yesterday, I'll start cleaning up my code a bit preparing to post it here.
Yup, thanks to Matan Ziv-Av who did a few improvements and fixes and uploaded him-arabic to maemo extras.
The good part is the addition of the Hebrew keymap (And a few other things).
him-arabic.png
HIM Arabic plugin is on its way.
The code is available from my svn repository
svn co http://home.foolab.org/svn/projects/him-arabic/trunk/ him-arabic
* The code is UGLY. A lot of the functionality is still missing.
* No packages yet. I'll create them but my cold doesn't help much :-)
* The above screenshot is for scratchbox not for the actual device. I didn't try yet to run it on the device.
* You will also need an Arabic font. I packaged one here: ftp://foolab.org/pub/apt/pool/arabic/t/ttf-kacst/ttf-arabic-kacstbook_1.6.2+mry-1.0.1_all.deb
I know there's one provided by the browser team. It was me who did the packaging for it but I'll be providing multiple fonts soon so ttf-arabic is now a virtual package.