IRC log of #maemo-ssu for Tuesday, 2011-02-15

wmaronegiven the resources available via MeeGo (video, open source phone stack) I think the only limiting factor os people's desire to make it work00:00
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trbsTrue oss bits in meego help00:02
trbsthinking about these thinks always gives me that 'there is not enough time in a day' feeling :)00:03
trbshopefully when my current project at work ends i'll have some more spare time to give helpen cssu a go00:04
trbstill then i'll be idling here :)00:04
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Sc0rpiusok let's see01:44
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Sc0rpiusI insist03:12
Sc0rpiusthe more I read Modest code, the more I understand why it sucks and why everybody hates it03:12
Sc0rpiusI'm an inch to just port the Thunderbird engine with a nice Qt GUI and that's it.03:12
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ruskieSc0rpius, tbird isn't much better10:05
ruskietry claws-mail or something... with a touch friendly UI ;)10:05
ruskieso any chance of the community ssu actually getting a more sane FHS compliant root setup done?10:06
ruskieand support for fstab and such like...10:07
Jaffaruskie: Only if someone did the work and it didn't break anything.11:23
JaffaThe rootfs is FHS compliant, AFAICT. Even the usage of /opt is.11:24
Jaffa(IIRC)11:24
Jaffaruskie: osso-mail was based on Sylpheed. It was shit too.11:24
JaffaSc0rpius: Worth starting a page on wiki.maemo.org about Modest problems? Maybe people could tackle them one by one...11:25
ruskieJaffa, erm.. rootfs isn't FHS complaint...11:26
ruskieI can't offload /usr to emmc11:26
ruskiebreaks boot11:26
ruskiesince things in /bin depend on things in /usr11:26
ruskielibs specifically11:26
ruskiebelieve me I tried this often enough... it worked with 1.011:27
ruskieafter that it just broke...11:27
ruskieadding fstab should be a simple modification of the init scripts... auto mounting would need to be modified a bit(and possibly simplified as well)...11:28
ruskieI can try and do some of that work since I already had it done atleast a few times on each release...11:28
ruskiethe final ideal for me would be to be able to boot it like a normal desktop/server system where I can have different partitions for /usr /var /home /opt ... thus reducing the overall load on /11:31
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lardmanwho knows about .install files?12:27
MohammadAGjust ask :p12:28
lardmanrighty-ho12:28
lardmanSomeone submitted a patch to mBarcode to handle apt: uris, but it assumes that the catalogue will be Extras, I'd prefer to implement the whole "standard" shown here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl12:29
lardmanthe question is, can .install files both add catalogues and install packages? I think so, but are there any docs anywhere?12:30
MohammadAGyes, they can12:34
MohammadAGsee the CSSU .install file, that's what it does12:34
ruskieare there any repos for the init scripts and stuff already? or something else?12:38
MohammadAGthe default repos I guess12:40
lardmanpresumably one can add existing repos to the .install file and it just ignores them?12:41
lardmanalso, can install files install multiple packages?12:41
* lardman searches for some docs, but install is not a good search phrase ;)12:42
MohammadAGlardman, if the repo exists, it ignores it and installs the app12:44
MohammadAGthis is what the ovi store does12:44
lardmanyeah thought so12:44
lardmanand for multiple packages?12:44
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lardmandoes HAM do anything with Recommends?12:57
MohammadAGshows them in details I think12:58
lardmanhmm ok, I really need some circular deps12:58
Jaffalardman: Some docs under http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/13:26
Jaffalardman: More specifically, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/install-devel.html13:26
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Jaffaruskie: Anyway, no - I don't imagine anyone will do the work unless it scratches some fundamental itch of theirs because of the risk of breakage.13:27
ruskieJaffa, well as said I'm willing to work on it as I already did it on my device N times(each time I reflashed)...13:35
ruskiejust need to know where the source repo that I should work against is so I can actually do stuff that others can then check on how it works for them...13:37
Jaffaruskie: The question is what packages does it require importing into http://gitorious.org/community-ssu13:37
Jaffaruskie: http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU/Development13:37
ruskiethanks13:40
ruskieI'll look around...13:40
ruskieI might not get a gitoirous account though... depends on their privacy policy and so on...13:40
lardmanthanks Jaffa13:43
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mardythp, MohammadAG: I commented on gitorious about the latest H-D commits (in case you haven't e-mail notifications activated)14:05
MohammadAGmardy, he's working on getting it configurable afaik14:06
mardyMohammadAG: ok. IIRC, at some stage during the development we had it like this, but then it was decided to change14:15
mardyMohammadAG: but I don't know if it was because of some technical issue, or UI designers' preferences14:15
MohammadAGmardy, you're an h-d dev?14:20
mardyMohammadAG: no, I worked on the presence status applet, IM accounts configuration and the Telepathy mission-control daemon14:22
MohammadAGah, nice to have you in here :)14:24
thpMohammadAG: http://gitorious.org/community-ssu/hildon-application-manager/merge_requests/114:33
MohammadAGmardy, just wondering, is there any change we could get those updated without open sourcing them?14:33
MohammadAGthp, cool!14:35
mardyMohammadAG: good question... but I'm afraid I'm not allowed to14:36
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thpmardy, Jaffa: i'll make a configurable patch out of it, no problem :)14:58
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mardythp: as I just commented on gitorious, the rotation on the Z axis is beautiful if accompanied by fading15:01
thplol @ hd_comp_mgr_is_portrait () ? CLUTTER_Z_AXIS : CLUTTER_Z_AXIS ;)15:02
Jaffamardy: Fading to black as it reaches 45 deg and then fading back up from black to 90?15:02
mardyJaffa: no, fading with the new layout. But I'm not sure this is possible at all in maemo515:04
thpideally, both should be intersected, as in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWtMLs3j09U#t=2515:04
mardyJaffa: that is, you compute the new layout early, ideally before starting the rotation15:04
thpi think that's how it's done right now (take screenshot, rotate that, then black, then rotate in the live image)15:05
thpyou can see that when hooking up the device to a charger, setting the rotation to ~ 2000 msec and watching the battery indicator animation15:05
thp(except if it's just locking screen updates, but it should result in the same behavior15:05
Jaffamardy: as thp's MeeGo Handset video shows?15:05
mardyJaffa: yes15:06
mardyactually, I wonder if it's really worth to beautify or implement new features for maemo515:07
mardyit might be better to only address major issues, and concentrate more on MeeGo15:07
Jaffamardy: Beautifying and implementing new features in Maemo 5 is, until MeeGo's future becomes more certain, far more beneficial IMHO15:08
JaffaThere's hardware in people's hands. A base OS with a good set of applications. Decent performance and the benefits of the new Qt SDKs15:08
MohammadAGI'm with Jaffa on this one15:10
MohammadAGMeeGo on the N900 is far from ready15:10
thpi also agree with Jaffa. of course, things might change if Harmattan becomes open source now, and it is usable, but so far, maemo 5 is the best we have15:11
Per_n900Maybe that would change if you guys helped out with meego? Maemo WILL die, eventually people will leave or their devices will break.15:11
thpPer_n900: meego reference ux < maemo 5 (from a ux perspective)15:11
thpPer_n900: harmattan compared to maemo 5 is unknown, as it's not released15:12
thp..and tweaking maemo 5 is much easier than rebuilding everything in meego.15:12
mardythp: what libs is the game in the video written in?15:14
thpthat rabbit game? qt + qgraphicsview15:14
thpwith some qtmobility sprinkled in for accelerometer input15:15
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MohammadAGthp, hmm, need to update the HAM repo15:17
MohammadAGI just noticed that a branch is used for the one in PR1.315:17
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thpso, should z axis rotation be default now or optional?15:29
thpi've made it configurable through transitions.ini, and it's even "live" (you don't need to restart hd for the changes to take effect)15:30
thpi'm making it off by default; for the first CSSU, we can still update transitions.ini and enable it if we want to15:42
thp"first CSSU" -> "first stable CSSU"15:42
thpMohammadAG, Jaffa, mardy: updated merge request, please have a look and comment: http://gitorious.org/community-ssu/hildon-desktop/merge_requests/315:45
mardythp: I just _suspected_ that it could look bad, but I didn't see it. If it looks fine, I've no objections15:45
mardythp: what about timing? Does it take longer now to rotate?15:46
thpi think so, but overall it feels faster15:46
thpalso, z axis rotation avoids creating the black overlay, so that might speed up things a bit15:46
thpit "feels" faster..15:47
mardythp: mmm... I cannot find the parent commit... I cannot find the part which contains the comment "Add the actor we use to dim out the screen"15:54
thpmardy: http://gitorious.org/~thp/community-ssu/thps-hildon-desktop15:55
thpi did a force push, so you might need to refetch15:55
thp(yes, that's not good practice, but i figured that it's okay in my "private" repo)15:56
thpthis part was completely removed in my first patch, but now i'm leaving it in15:56
mardythp: it's OK, I'm just using the web interface now15:56
mardythp: wrote one comment: the code is already very complicated, it would be easier if we split it more into separate functions15:59
mardythp: especially when it's easy to isolate the changes, like in this case16:00
thpanybody knows where the code is that forces landscape mode in the home (desktop)?16:17
JaffaPer_n900: Anyway, it's easy to hack on Maemo 5 now as we can coordinate in the open - something Nokia never did. Doing random hacks on MeeGo UX would probably be rejected as not conformant to the UI Standards ;-)16:17
mardythp: I would think that, on the contrary, there isn't any code to allow it :-)16:19
Jaffathp: thinking that hildon-home could render the right hand of the screen under the left hand?16:21
Jaffathp: With suitable modifications to what it does with the background16:21
Jaffathp: Then anything straggling the border is the user's problem...16:21
thpJaffa: first of all, i just want to have "auto-rotation everywhere" and see what works and what does not. we can then incrementally fix issues such as homescreen widgets not being visible16:22
thpat least for the task switcher, I can imagine that we could just resize the "scroll area" and relayout the whole thing (as it is at the moment with the single-column or two-column tweak, just some more logic for resizing16:23
thpthis is my current brute-force auto-rotation patch, which works for all apps, but not in switcher/launcher/home: http://thp.io/2011/maemo/hd_portrait_forcer.patch16:24
Jaffathp: Should there be support for a blacklist?16:24
Jaffathp: e.g. media player, calendar, Hermes (cos of the launch screen), ...16:25
thpafter trying things out, i think we should whitelist official (closed) apps only16:25
thpbecause games that don't set any portrait flags expect to be landscape-only16:25
thpand for open source apps, we can just patch in portrait flags (as in the HAM example)16:25
Jaffathp: OK, agreed.16:26
thpinterestingly, the contacts app already relayouts itself for portrait (photo of contact moves to the top)16:26
JaffaContacts seems to work really well in portrait (with a quick Ctrl-Shift-R test)16:27
thpcalculator is an example where we can't really have portrait mode in its current state ;)16:28
JaffaFile Manager seems OK, but the "Share" dialogue gets the repeated button bug that affected Modest16:29
thpthat's a themeing issue16:31
thpand actually it's gone if you rotate to landscape and then back to portrait (while the dialog is still open)16:31
MohammadAG<thp> because games that don't set any portrait flags expect to be landscape-only16:36
MohammadAGangry birds does :P16:36
MohammadAGI was surprised tbh16:36
thpwhat? it sets portrait supported or not supported?16:37
MohammadAGnot supported, but doing forced rotation on it relays everything properly16:37
MohammadAGs/relays/lays out/16:37
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MohammadAGthp, I'm assuming the patch is against h-d before the old merge request right?16:41
Per_n900Jaffa: That is true.16:41
JaffaPer_n900: For example, Nokia never merged the "provide proper, standard's compliant quoting" in Modest. But the CSSU has.16:41
Per_n900Jaffa, I am not dissing CSSU at all, I just feel kind of sad about the fact that all the work beeing done here will die with the n900, thats all. But I see your point, and yes Maemo is the best we got.16:45
thp"Switch to tasw when we've really exited portarit mode."16:46
MohammadAGwho said it'll die?16:47
MohammadAGhildon-desktop runs on desktops16:47
Per_n900MohammadAG, do you still like the mer2 idea? Or whas that not you who said that, hmm... Not sure.16:49
MohammadAGit was me16:49
Jaffa?16:50
MohammadAGrewriting closed bits16:51
ruskie++16:51
JaffaBelow the app level?16:54
MohammadAGmce and bme are out of the question, too hard to cover all bits they do16:59
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mirr0rI think you guys are doing an awesome job with CSSU! Thanks!18:50
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