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comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:24:33 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24ae1f2b0fea24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/219480.html http://is.gd/thurman.

comments4 1 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:24:33 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1593a51a51a011e08ae309d4ba3b84a584a5 https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/202376.html
Deb: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~tthurman/imgur/tmp/imgur_0.50-1_armel.deb

Source: https://github.com/tthurman/imgur-integration



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Instructions are included.

Update: Now in extras-testing.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:19:33 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24adf3aaa10a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/202376.html
Deb: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~tthurman/imgur/tmp/imgur_0.50-1_armel.deb

Source: https://github.com/tthurman/imgur-integration



↓



↓



Instructions are included.

Update: Now in extras-testing.

comments5 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:19:33 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-9c592c7c2ca811e08a5ac767f776169d169d https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/202176.html imgur integration will be coming to a Maemo repository near you soon:



Later, since it's my birthday tomorrow, we went out for a curry. It was pretty good, but rather mild. I was amused that the people at the next table to us were clearly English as well. Then we went to the bookshop, came home, and had some coffee. A pretty good day, all told.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:02:23 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24adc6fb5faa24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/202176.html imgur integration will be coming to a Maemo repository near you soon:



Later, since it's my birthday tomorrow, we went out for a curry. It was pretty good, but rather mild. I was amused that the people at the next table to us were clearly English as well. Then we went to the bookshop, came home, and had some coffee. A pretty good day, all told.

comments5 1 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:02:23 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-e2705a062c2a11e0bbe5e72df0e01c711c71 https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/198550.html rewritten MeeGo version of robotfindskitten on the N900. It works passably well:



You see that the text is missing.



There are a few other things wrong (we need to use Maemo banners, not dialogue boxes; the vibration at the end needs reimplementing) but I think it will be good to go in a week or so of snatched moments here and there. If you'd like to test, let me know.

(I'm thinking of making the title page dark grey, and losing the text across the top, to look more Maemo-like than MeeGo-like.)

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:19:39 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24ad99bebf0a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/198550.html rewritten MeeGo version of robotfindskitten on the N900. It works passably well:



You see that the text is missing.



There are a few other things wrong (we need to use Maemo banners, not dialogue boxes; the vibration at the end needs reimplementing) but I think it will be good to go in a week or so of snatched moments here and there. If you'd like to test, let me know.

(I'm thinking of making the title page dark grey, and losing the text across the top, to look more Maemo-like than MeeGo-like.)

comments5 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:19:39 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-3324d3b828ee11e0ad93c5e3867b19941994 https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/198366.html
Something like this (on Maemo, though the principle is the same for GNOME):



(It's interesting to consider whether the plugin should assemble the list and then pass it to gthumb, or whether gthumb should be extended so that it can be passed a switch to display all pictures known to Tracker with a given tag.)

Of course, Tracker also tracks things other than images, so you could also have buttons for wordprocessor documents, emails, and so on. I could do this (in a while, when I have some time); would any of you want it?

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:08:19 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24ad6fe8998a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/198366.html
Something like this (on Maemo, though the principle is the same for GNOME):



(It's interesting to consider whether the plugin should assemble the list and then pass it to gthumb, or whether gthumb should be extended so that it can be passed a switch to display all pictures known to Tracker with a given tag.)

Of course, Tracker also tracks things other than images, so you could also have buttons for wordprocessor documents, emails, and so on. I could do this (in a while, when I have some time); would any of you want it?

comments7 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:08:19 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-5b6b9d0228b211e087dd1bc74ba74dc94dc9 https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/195792.html Imgur Integration version 0.20. imgur.com is a website which allows you to host arbitrary images without creating an account. This program includes a DBus service which allows posting of images to imgur.com, a command-line interface to the DBus service, and an Eye of Gnome plugin to do the same. It is not an official client, but I have talked to the imgur admins and they are happy about its existence.

So when you open a picture, you have a menu option that uploads it and opens a browser at the right page, with no configuration, thus:



You have to turn on the plugin in eog after installation (Edit > Preferences > Plugins > Post to imgur.com). If I package this, I may make it turn on automatically, since it's a little hard to find this.

As originally conceived, it would have also allowed you to use libsocialweb to tweet/dent the resulting URL. I took this out for now because libsocialweb also has API to post pictures, and I wasn't sure how best to do it. There is still a rather useless dependency on libsocialweb. Sorry about that.

eog seems not to look in /usr/local/share/eog/plugins, only /usr/share/eog/plugins. You may therefore have to set --prefix appropriately, or simply copy the files from /usr/local to /usr by hand after installation. Sorry about that, too.

There was a partially-written libsharing plugin for Maemo which used the imgur DBus service, but it's not finished. It could be finished, if people would like it.

Other thoughts on how the program could develop are in the README. You can download the program or look at the source control. This is quite a rough draft. Patches and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:17:45 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24ad475b8e0a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/195792.html Imgur Integration version 0.20. imgur.com is a website which allows you to host arbitrary images without creating an account. This program includes a DBus service which allows posting of images to imgur.com, a command-line interface to the DBus service, and an Eye of Gnome plugin to do the same. It is not an official client, but I have talked to the imgur admins and they are happy about its existence.

So when you open a picture, you have a menu option that uploads it and opens a browser at the right page, with no configuration, thus:



You have to turn on the plugin in eog after installation (Edit > Preferences > Plugins > Post to imgur.com). If I package this, I may make it turn on automatically, since it's a little hard to find this.

As originally conceived, it would have also allowed you to use libsocialweb to tweet/dent the resulting URL. I took this out for now because libsocialweb also has API to post pictures, and I wasn't sure how best to do it. There is still a rather useless dependency on libsocialweb. Sorry about that.

eog seems not to look in /usr/local/share/eog/plugins, only /usr/share/eog/plugins. You may therefore have to set --prefix appropriately, or simply copy the files from /usr/local to /usr by hand after installation. Sorry about that, too.

There was a partially-written libsharing plugin for Maemo which used the imgur DBus service, but it's not finished. It could be finished, if people would like it.

Other thoughts on how the program could develop are in the README. You can download the program or look at the source control. This is quite a rough draft. Patches and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

comments4 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:17:45 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-9b403a08219811e0acf92daab16555c355c3 https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/188047.html


This is probably really ugly QML because I'm still learning it. It uses the Gnusto just-in-time compiler as the back end.

You can download this and play with it here (please! play with it and extend it as you see fit): qml-gnusto-0.01.tar.bz2

(And if you like adventure games, you might also like today's poem.)

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:38:59 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24ad1dbc444a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/188047.html


This is probably really ugly QML because I'm still learning it. It uses the Gnusto just-in-time compiler as the back end.

You can download this and play with it here (please! play with it and extend it as you see fit): qml-gnusto-0.01.tar.bz2

(And if you like adventure games, you might also like today's poem.)

comments3 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:38:59 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-39ece0fc105f11e0849f19f7c943707e707e https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/175917.html Earlier this year, arising out of a conversation at GUADEC, I wrote a nautilus plugin to upload images to imgur.com. (This is useful because imgur doesn't require an account: you can just install, hit "upload", and off you go.)

Here is a copy of the same thing as a MeeGo RPM, suitable for use on the Lenovo machines distributed at the MeeGo conference. Once this is installed, you can select a .jpg image in the file browser, press the menu button, and choose "Post to imgur" from the resulting menu. Equivalently, you can choose the same option from the Edit menu. The image will be uploaded, and the web browser will pop up at the new URL.  Then you can send it to your friends, embed it in a blog post, or whatever you like.

The source is here.

Things I would like to do with this:

• Add a similar menu option to the image viewer (which is currently Eye of GNOME).   I haven't looked into how easy it is to extend eog.
• Add an icon to the launcher which brought up a file chooser.
• Separate out the uploading part to a DBus service.
• Do this as a libsharing plugin for Maemo.  I would do this, but I have broken my scratchbox and have no tuits to fix it.
• Have some app which remembered the images you'd uploaded and helped you find them again.  Especially, if you try to upload the same image twice, it should just take you to the previous copy.

Let me know if you use this, what feedback you have, and whether any of the above would be useful to you.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:47:53 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24acf44facaa24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/175917.html Earlier this year, arising out of a conversation at GUADEC, I wrote a nautilus plugin to upload images to imgur.com. (This is useful because imgur doesn't require an account: you can just install, hit "upload", and off you go.)

Here is a copy of the same thing as a MeeGo RPM, suitable for use on the Lenovo machines distributed at the MeeGo conference. Once this is installed, you can select a .jpg image in the file browser, press the menu button, and choose "Post to imgur" from the resulting menu. Equivalently, you can choose the same option from the Edit menu. The image will be uploaded, and the web browser will pop up at the new URL.  Then you can send it to your friends, embed it in a blog post, or whatever you like.

The source is here.

Things I would like to do with this:

• Add a similar menu option to the image viewer (which is currently Eye of GNOME).   I haven't looked into how easy it is to extend eog.
• Add an icon to the launcher which brought up a file chooser.
• Separate out the uploading part to a DBus service.
• Do this as a libsharing plugin for Maemo.  I would do this, but I have broken my scratchbox and have no tuits to fix it.
• Have some app which remembered the images you'd uploaded and helped you find them again.  Especially, if you try to upload the same image twice, it should just take you to the previous copy.

Let me know if you use this, what feedback you have, and whether any of the above would be useful to you.

comments6 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:47:53 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-a0ae2146f98c11df9a82fd7d720cbe3ebe3e https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/175161.html Further to my previous post:

Here's a live AJAX-based version you can play with. It's not very fast unless the word is cached, and it only takes at most a word of context (unlike the real thing, where the context is everything you've ever typed), but it should serve to demonstrate the principle.

Now to release the code, and to look into patching existing VKB systems.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:43:44 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24accb33722a24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/175161.html Further to my previous post:

Here's a live AJAX-based version you can play with. It's not very fast unless the word is cached, and it only takes at most a word of context (unlike the real thing, where the context is everything you've ever typed), but it should serve to demonstrate the principle.

Now to release the code, and to look into patching existing VKB systems.

comments8 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:43:44 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-c7346c02f81b11dfb2426d1ebad2294c294c https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/174614.html someone was asking about virtual keyboards on gtk-list this morning.

Last week at the MeeGo Conference several people were talking about virtual keyboards, and the idea came up of doing predictive text, either by making more likely letters physically larger, or merely by increasing their sensitivity.

When I came home, I wrote a JavaScript mock-up based on a third-order Markov chain. It's quite fun to play with, especially on a touchscreen.

When I showed this to a few people at Collabora and elsewhere, Rob McQueen suggested avoiding reinventing the wheel by using the rather wonderful Dasher system as a back end. So, after a longish hacking session, here it is:



State of the keyboard after typing "FLO".

Click here to see a video of the keyboard in action

The front end shown here is just a custom GTK widget I threw together; in real life it would use an existing input method. I've exaggerated the differences between letter sizes for demonstration. (As I mentioned above, the physical letter sizes might not change at all.)

There is a wiki page about all this. Let me know if you'd be interested in helping work on this; I'll be releasing the code shortly, and adding a link on the wiki to it. (Odd thought: I wonder how useful another demonstration piece of JavaScript would be, pulling data from Dasher running as a CGI. Let me know.)

There is also an existing roughly similar system for Android, and, I hear, for the iPhone.

Update: An AJAX version you can play with.

comments0 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:56:18 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e7a24aca26c8caa24a11e7af2ea179fb225b235b23 http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/174614.html someone was asking about virtual keyboards on gtk-list this morning.

Last week at the MeeGo Conference several people were talking about virtual keyboards, and the idea came up of doing predictive text, either by making more likely letters physically larger, or merely by increasing their sensitivity.

When I came home, I wrote a JavaScript mock-up based on a third-order Markov chain. It's quite fun to play with, especially on a touchscreen.

When I showed this to a few people at Collabora and elsewhere, Rob McQueen suggested avoiding reinventing the wheel by using the rather wonderful Dasher system as a back end. So, after a longish hacking session, here it is:



State of the keyboard after typing "FLO".

Click here to see a video of the keyboard in action

The front end shown here is just a custom GTK widget I threw together; in real life it would use an existing input method. I've exaggerated the differences between letter sizes for demonstration. (As I mentioned above, the physical letter sizes might not change at all.)

There is a wiki page about all this. Let me know if you'd be interested in helping work on this; I'll be releasing the code shortly, and adding a link on the wiki to it. (Odd thought: I wonder how useful another demonstration piece of JavaScript would be, pulling data from Dasher running as a CGI. Let me know.)

There is also an existing roughly similar system for Android, and, I hear, for the iPhone.

Update: An AJAX version you can play with.

comments8 0 ]]> Thomas Thurman <tthurman@gnome.org> feed:4fc53fd28b16e0b9ada2e2e5e88f1d9f Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:56:18 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-21d2ada6f7d911dfb1365d9cdf656af96af9