Planet Maemo: category "feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756"

Planet Maemo: category "feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756" Blog entries from Maemo community http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:51:25 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.6(BH) en planet@maemo.org Open positions ... http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2008/10/open-positions.html maemo community, now it is to reach out to developers who may find the following open positions in my team interesting

All positions are based in Tampere, Finland. Some interesting facts and figures related to Tampere and surrounding region can be found here.7

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:52:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-4d0040d6963011dd8c48fd3a379763f863f8 Status update on Synaptic Package Manager for Maemo http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2007/02/status-update-on-synaptic-package.html
Known problems

I have not been able to fix maemo/sapwood theme related problem, probably related to Gtk program running as sudo (caution, this is a bad idea ). This happens only when invoked as sudo :( but theme works ok, when for e.g synaptic is launch from xterm. So for now when invoked from the desktop, you will be welcomed by good old gtk look and feel :)

This version does not support single deb installation (install from file) and "1-click" .install file support as available in the official version.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:22:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-6627737ad94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Enabling thumb mode for your ARM binaries http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/12/enabling-thumb-mode-for-your-arm.html tko), so I documented it (I hope it will act as a starter, for other to add info). It would also be nice if this kind of info is also available in official maemo documentation0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:42:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-6616514ed94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a N770 packaging needs to improve http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/12/n770-packaging-needs-to-improve.html

I think before packages are released by each team, it should be MANDATED to try simple use cases of install and uninstall there packages on device to atleast get rid of ridiculous package dependencies. Atleast it is quite a valid use case atleast for me to remove language localizations for languages I dont need like french or italian and themes,sounds, preinstalled videos and media, which just occupy my much needed and useful flash space.

Maybe maemo community can come to help here and file bugs against improper packaging.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:00:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-6604f890d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Maemo developer platform team gets some fresh talent http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/12/maemo-developer-platform-team-gets.html Quim Gil as my successor :) and wish him lots of good luck as the next Maemo Development Product Manager. People active in the GNOME community know Quim quite well already.

When I now look back, I think it has been a tremendous adventure where we did many things right, many things that didnt go as well as we planned and lots of learning. I thank all the community members (i am including here Nokia internal developers also) who made working on maemo so enjoyable. Good luck ! I will now continue my journey as a community member.
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]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:59:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65e1cbfed94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Synaptic Package Manager for Maemo http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/12/synaptic-package-manager-for-maemo.html

I have been working on porting Synaptic for Maemo. Here are some screenshots

I have tried to make it as friendly without sacrificing any of the features. I would have to say that porting had been a lot quicker and easier (except the time wasted on designing hildon related workarounds) due to well structured code and UI seperation using glade files.

I have also incorporated some great feature IMHO from the osso-application-installer, the default (and a lot more user friendly) application manager on IT OS 2006.
- Added ability to show application icons

- Ability to see a brief description about the package in the main row view

This is still very much a work in progress so not yet ready for public release :(
Keep tuned.

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]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:44:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65f3afc2d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a New Nokia 770 media campaign http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-nokia-770-media-campaign.html Latest Nokia 770 media campaign takes maemo community applications center stage. I think the campaign hit bulls eye to emphasize in my opinion the most unique sell point for Nokia 770 Internet Tablet - Hackability. Now that would not mean so much to technology agnostic end consumer, but it sure means a lot to technology savvy consumers (especially those, who have an itch and know how to fix it :) .

This campaign further highlights how vitally important an active development community is for device success, especially when different consumers have different expectation from the device (read itch). Therefore it is hugely imperative for Nokia to listen, nurture and be truly a part of this community.

I don't know if Sean Egan would like to be associated with the Maemo GAIM as been pointed out here :) which is pretty much a quick port of mainstream GAIM by me and Santtu Lakkala for Nokia 770.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:13:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65d087ccd94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Maemo GAIM for IT OS 2006 edition http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2006/07/maemo-gaim-for-it-os-2006-edition.html install here

It would also be cool if the packaging could further be broken down at IM protocol level e.g gaim-protocol-irc or something like as done for locales.

Things I am planning for maemo gaim (only if I get some time off enjoying my summer :)
- integrate gaim-galago (I guess only thing that need to be done is package it)
- enable gnome-presence-applet for maemo as a status bar plugin [ I have already now kind of ripped off the libpanelapplet to make a bonoboo-less lite version]. I have it kind of running on desktop but need to clean/fix up stuff. As an idea maybe this presence status bar plugin can be further enhanced to communicate with gaim using gaim-remote to do simple things like sending quick message to a contact etc.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:37:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65bf3da0d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Nokia 770 talk at MIT http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2005/11/nokia-770-talk-at-mit.html 0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:29:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65adf810d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Maemo Streamripper Control Panel Plugin http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2005/11/maemo-streamripper-control-panel.html Streamripper and modified it to run as a daemon and controlled by DBUS. Then wrote a simple UI and control panel plugin to rip streams

I started a berlios project here https://developer.berlios.de/projects/streamripper-ui/ which still awaits for me a cleanup code and import in SVN. some day !! (well code is quite dirty, so I dont think it will every get into mainstream, but the changes to streamripper itself are quite small, just modification to the console utility). Code could also be useful to people looking for sample D-BUS code and sample code for writing Maemo Control Panel Plugin

At some point I thought I could also put some nice feature like the Streamripper32 where it can list the stations and tracks available for ripping.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:38:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-659c3b2ad94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a Btxfer : Simple tool for Bluetooth OPUSH/OBEX transfer http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2005/11/btxfer-simple-tool-for-bluetooth.html
Now on Nokia 770, the device announcement is turned off, but now with so many developers with root access, can simple turn that on in their /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf

BtXfer
- Simple UI for discovering devices
- Select a device and select files (you can select multiple files), and send. It will send if the other receiving device has OPUSH profile. The utiltiy also has SDP query capability to get the right channel number on the receiving device
- You can also receive
- Nice little progress bar for send/receive progress
- Multithreaded so, send and receive happens independent of each other

I ripped most of the code from the obex-apps
Some features I really would like
- a simple tray for droping files for transfer

Code exist here : https://stage.maemo.org/svn/btxfer
so feel free to hack0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:24:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65794534d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a New minor release for Maemo GAIM http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2005/11/new-minor-release-for-maemo-gaim.html 1. I opened berlios project for maemo gaim, so now if someone wants to join in improving the port for maemo feel free https://developer.berlios.de/projects/maemo-gaim/
2. Made another minor update release which is available from http://download.berlios.de/maemo-gaim/maemo_gaim_1.5-dk-1_arm.deb

New features
- Hildon stype toolbar and menues (did a real bad hack) more on that in a bit
- Preference dialog is now a Appview, so its quite convinent to use
- App should now be able to also work in non-fullscreen mode
- Should be more stable :) [since when has stability become a new feature ;)

Ok, now about the hack
GAIM makes extensive menues using the factories, and I just couldnt find to sew the existing menu widget to the appview. while there is an API to get the menu widget e.g to attacj menuitem etc, there is no API I could find for repacing the menu with a user provided menu.

So I started to dig into the hildon_appview.c file to see what is the magic. The widget is having a pointer to priv struct , the first member of it is the menu widget, which I wanted to change, so using brute C pointer force, I just changed the pointer of the internal structure to contain pointer to my menu widget :)

void **ptr = HILDON_APPVIEW(app_buddy_view)->priv;
*ptr = gtk_item_factory_get_widget(gtkblist->ift, "");

Hopefully I wont have to rely on this hack and HildonAppView widget would have an API to enable this.0

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:34:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-658ae578d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a GAIM 1.5 for Maemo/Nokia 770 http://dkothari.blogspot.com/2005/11/gaim-15-for-maemonokia-770.html
DISCLAIMER :) This is my hobby project and Nokia has nothing to do with it.

It works in full screen mode only
To switch, use the home key to switch between other apps
[+/-] zoom keys are mapped to get as much screen estate to chat window as possible. It will work when the converasation window is in view, so you can pretty much get the entire screen for chat
[fullscreen key] is mapped to switch between buddy window and conversation window
I left the menu as they are (i.e did not oconvert them to hildon menues), didnt see a need why as the app works in full screen
Modified most dialogs and windows to reasonable sizes and where possible use the tabs

Here are some of the screen shots (eye candy)

]]> Devesh Kothari <dkothari@gmail.com> feed:32c459979288a47ce7db402c789bf756 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:55:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-65664d80d94b11db8fbe893abbe9db0adb0a