Getting Gene Cash an 810

[Zebee]

So... I use and love Gene's PIM software. It is much nicer than the GPE, handles alarms well, and is the main reason I have not gone to 2008 yet.

But he won't be porting it to 2008 until he gets a 2008 machine (or someone works out how to dual boot 2007 and 2008 with full functionality) so I can't move till he does.

Which got me to wondering... how many people are in the same boat? How many people want Gene's sotware on 2008?

How many people would be willing to donate some money to Gene towards him buying an 810? Or more realistically (and cheaper...) an 800 to put 2008 on?

I would be happy to start the ball rolling with US$80. If anyone else is interested I will email Gene to see what he feels about it.

Zebee

[Karel Jansens]

I'd much rather he'd wait until Nokia get their act together and fix the mess that is 2008.

[vvaz]

AFAIU this is not lack of 810 problem - OS2008 is problem.

[Zebee]

Maybe.. but the chances of that are?

So if an n800 lands on his doorstep he might be willing to give it a try!

[jurop88]

Somewhere (on maemo ml if I remember correctly) he stated he started porting his apps on OS2008. In any case, I agree that those are best pim apps for ITs, simply because they are not bell&whistles but just works and have a great snap and well designed interface.
I recently had really no time to dig in the code for working reason, but - as he calls them - they are python scripts, so who knows python can also help with the job.

[dubwise]

On his site,
http://home.cfl.rr.com/genecash/nokia/
he says I tried OS2008/Chinook FOUR TIMES and it really doesn't seem ready for prime-time.

Leave the poor guy alone.

KDEPIMPI is the most promising OS2008 suite.
Needs developers.

Me, I bought a Treo 650 for $100.
Makes a great companion to the N810.
Problem solved.

[Texrat]

Gene has a lot to gripe about. I hope he's shared it on maemo bugzilla...

[mbfrog]

commenting out the few references to "allow-checkbox-mode" should do the trick to get most of his apps to start:
#if nokia:
# # fix buglet that messes with setting the checkboxes
# view.set_property('allow-checkbox-mode', False)

As for calend, you need to replace the calls to set_property('input-mode', 1) and the subsequent set_property('autocap', False) by a single set_property('hildon-input-mode', 0x40000002).

I haven't tested much beyond getting the apps to start, so expect some things to be broken. Like the alarms in calend as far as I can tell.

[Zebee]

I haven't tested much beyond getting the apps to start, so expect some things to be broken. Like the alarms in calend as far as I can tell.

That means investigating the alarm code I suppose. Time to dig out scratchbox and start playing.

Zebee

[fiferboy]

Zebee,

If you get alarmd working in scratchbox, let me know how you did it! I am trying to do some alarmd testing and can't for the life of me get it to run. Both "alarmd -d" and "/etc/init.d/alarmd start" run happily but have no effect. It is a very sad state of affairs that I hope is due to some horrendous oversight on my part!