Hej!

First a disclaimer: I started with the maemo sdk today, I did the nokia hello-world tutorial, and I haven't managed to do much more.

I tried to find the answer to my problem in the forum, but no luck.

What I'm trying to do is to open and compile simple-brightness-applet in ESbox. I downloaded the sources from here.

Then I couldn't manage to open the project in ESbox. I tried the method described here:

The first didn't work because the wizard didn't recognize any ESbox projects in the source directory.

I tried the second way by creating a new project from existing directory, but compilation didn't work / didn't do anything.

And that's it. I'm stuck.
Should I go back and work through any documentation I can find, or is there a quick and easy fix for my problem?

I am aware that I'm acting like a lazy noob, I'm sorry. Any help is appreciated!

Sorry, but (as its author), I don't rely on IDEs and stuff. Just plain ol' Scratchbox and gedit.
I assume you have Scratchbox installed due to your mention of ESbox, so try this:

1. In Scratchbox, cd to wherever you've unpacked the source. (If not, add Extras-devel to your sources.list in Scratchbox and type "apt-get update && apt-get source simple-brightness-applet")
2. Run "apt-get build-dep simple-brightness-applet" to get whatever packages it needs to build.
3. Issue a "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" and hope that it works...

The above should get you a deb. Edit the source if required and keep on building.

P.S. On subsequent builds, you can pass "-nc" to dpkg-buildpackage to have it speed up the process a bit by not having it clean up the files first before rebuilding.

You living in this forum, qwerty12? :-)
Thanks for the lightning fast reply!

Let's see if i can manage building it...

It worked!
Thanks again for the precise description.

Plus, now I have my network access in scratchbox properly configured.