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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-07, 15:01
Replies: 237
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Posted By marnanel
Re: How do you use multitasking in N900?

I use it extensively, and I would be frustrated without it. I currently have nine apps running:


the clock/alarm app,
an X terminal (running an ssh session)
the phone
contacts
the...
Forum: Applications 2010-01-16, 21:26
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

robotfindskitten 1.40 adds portrait mode; it also has a new system for touchscreen control suggested by Will Thompson. If you'd like to playtest, let me know.
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-09, 00:16
Replies: 0
Views: 1,258
Posted By marnanel
Strange input methods (Shavian in particular)

I wondered how difficult it might be to remap the N900's keyboard to allow input in the Shavian alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet). I tried, and it took about ten minutes: I'm...
Forum: Applications 2010-01-07, 03:28
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

I've now put a few minutes into packaging the thing; it's here:

http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tthurman/beebem/beebem_0.01-1_armel.deb

It works well enough to boot and load discs, but not well...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-02, 15:31
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

So as to the front page: currently, it looks like this:

http://belltower.garage.maemo.org/screenshot00.png

I wonder whether it would be more Maemo-ish if I made it look something more like...
Forum: Applications 2009-12-02, 15:29
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

So for the belltowers, the import from Dove's Guide could be done on the wiki, and the Maemo app would just need to download from there. Nice idea.
Forum: Applications 2009-11-28, 22:28
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Really‽ That's wonderful! Do you have a link I can point people to, or anything like that?
Forum: Applications 2009-11-28, 22:26
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

I have modified the emulator a bit so it runs more smoothly on the device. So there are four things I want to sort out before I release anything.

The upstream licensing of Beebem. But this has...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-18, 13:14
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

I don't know how the N8x0 window manager handled it, but I imagine it was in a similar way. The fault is not with the window manager but with libsdl. It is possible (probable, indeed) that the...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-18, 00:56
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

When an app refuses focus, the focus ends up on the desktop. When a keypress is received by the desktop, this is interpreted as a request to look up contacts beginning with that letter.



I...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-17, 17:12
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

And today I uploaded a screencast of robotfindskitten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNOYJLvttOY) as well.
Forum: Applications 2009-09-17, 16:16
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

I don't know-- do you know of any good Archimedes emulators for *nix that could be ported? I never used one myself (despite having grown up with the BBC Micro), so I don't know much about it.
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 20:53
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Well, since you asked:

http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo-exile

And the obligatory Elite:

http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo-elite

I don't think I'll...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 18:13
Replies: 6
Views: 3,944
Posted By marnanel
Re: N810 apache web server....WORKS????

Hijacking an old thread: I can confirm that Apache works fine on the N900 as well, since someone (possibly facetiously) told me it would be a killer feature. ...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 18:12
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Think we should file a Maemo bug to get it fixed downstream if they won't get on with fixing it upstream? It seems a pretty easy bug to run into.
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 18:06
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Matchbox is doing the right thing here, yes. Looks like that wmhints->flags =... should have been a wmhints->flags |=... .
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 17:41
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Woot, good catch!
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 17:40
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

DOSBox (and BeebEm) have neither InputHint nor WM_TAKE_FOCUS, and the ICCCM says explicitly that this means "the client never expects keyboard input".

One rather interesting point is that a very...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-16, 12:47
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Thank you :)

The problem is that there's a bit in WM_HINTS which (in both apps) isn't set. You can see this using "xprop -id 0x...":

For Beebem:

WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
bitmap...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-15, 17:18
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
Re: BBC Micro

Thanks. Fixing window managers is rather an obsession of mine, so I'm certainly going to be looking at that after work tonight. :)
Forum: Applications 2009-09-15, 17:11
Replies: 28
Views: 17,646
Posted By marnanel
BBC Micro

http://spectrum.myriadcolours.com/~marnanel/bbc-maemo

Ten minutes' hacking around brings the Beeb to the N900. It has some keyboard focus issues which need seeing to. Also, beebem uses f12 to...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-09, 18:18
Replies: 70
Views: 20,887
Posted By marnanel
Re: Conboy on Fremantle

Conboy is perhaps the most useful app I've yet run on fremantle, and that's saying quite a lot. Thank you.
Forum: Applications 2009-09-08, 14:32
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

It occurred to me the other day that Belltower could be usefully generalised. Imagine if there was a Maemo package called "nearby" which provided an app which, given a set of items with coordinates...
Forum: Applications 2009-09-04, 12:14
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

I have also made a screencast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJLIJwOzwEM) of Belltower in use, in case anyone's interested. I think it shows quite well how easy to use the N900's UI is.
Forum: Applications 2009-09-04, 12:12
Replies: 16
Views: 5,387
Posted By marnanel
Re: rfk, belltower

I have the honour of being on the development team.
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