Planet maemo

Today i’ve installed Chinook Environment on KUbuntu Hardy using the scripts: scratchbox installer and sdk installer.
The script runs fine but there are some issue such as:
MMAP ERROR
Setting up sudo (1.6.8p12-4osso7) ...
Updating sudoers
mmap: Permission denied
Solved running
echo 4096 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and so apt-get install -f
MESSAGEBUS INVALID USER ERROR
Setting up gconf2 (2.16.0-1osso9) ...
/scratchbox/tools/bin/chown: `messagebus:messagebus': invalid user
Soved with:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
fakeroot dpkg -i *dbus*
DPKG-PRECONFIGURE NOT AVAILABLE
Usually this file is in the debconf package. But the Maemo debconf doesn’t have got it! O_o
The error message is:
/scratchbox/tools/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
I’ve solved it copying this file from my host to scratchbox environment.
cp /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure /scratchbox/users/gnuton/targets/CHINOOK_ARMEL/usr/sbin
So i’ve runned again apt-get install -f and now i’ve my working (?) SDK Env.
That’s all! Happy installation to you!

>>> import gtk
>>> gtk.ver
(2, 14, 0)

def color_to_string(color):
 return "#00%02x00%02x00%02x" % (color.red, color.green, color.blue)

Vagalume 0.6 is here!

Among the new features introduced in Vagalume 0.6, the coolest one is probably the brand new tray icon for desktop users written by Mario, similar to the one already available for Maemo:

Other highlights from this version include:

• Update the status message of your IM client. Tell everyone what you’re listening to. Currently supported: Pidgin, Gajim, Gossip and Telepathy
• Gettext support: Vagalume has been translated into Portuguese, German, Finnish, Spanish, Galician and Italian
• New setting to disable the love/ban confirmation dialogs
• New D-BUS methods and a script to control Vagalume from the command line (currently only for Maemo, more news soon)
• Osso-backup support

I would like to thank all the contributors, in particular Tim Wegener for his work in the IM status support. And of course all the translators too!

Last but not least, I’d like to remind you again that, as I said in my previous post, I’ll be at LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin with other Maemo hackers. Hope to see you there!

And now, enjoy!

P.S.: I’m moving Vagalume to Maemo extras, so one of these days it should be available there. Stay tuned!

Update: Vagalume 0.6 is now available in Maemo Extras

After a discussion of the war today, I decided to do a little informal research into the Iraqi war and casualties to compare it to other armed conflicts.

Verizon Wireless announces they will be releasing Linux based cellphones next year.

We'll see how it plays out, but overall it's good news for embedded Linux.

I’ve just readed on trolltech blog that there is a new Qt plugin that permit a Qt application to use the current gtk theme engine.
It will be nice to use it in Qt maemo apps.
I’ve to try it.
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