Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Not quite yet.... I am almost done with a new one but this issue was not addressed yet.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

@fcrochik
Yes it makes sense - with two criteria(type and context) it will be possible to pinpoint the desired number to call. The only downside of this approach I see is that user will have to redefine all numbers that have been not correctly inserted at first. And the ones imported and with incorrect meta tags. That assuming that issue with erroneous type recognition is fixed in QT mobility. I have contacts that I am not able to make their cell number appear as such in "MyContacts", although they are labeled "mobile" in built in phone book. I have tried adding/removing country code, deleting/inserting the number in question.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Just read through the thread and found that someone has had the same problem I'm having, not being able to click on the contacts in the widget. By frantically clicking I can sometimes manage to get the contact window up.

Supposedly, this has to do with the double-click speed settings? I read about an option in the program but couldn't find one. And yes, I'm using the latest version (0.8.7.4-1)

Thanks. Sorry if I missed something in the thread, it's quite long.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Allowing you to select exactly what phone to call for each contact does not sound like too much of a easier way but, at some point, we can try that too.

Assuming it is the same "bug" I found, what you need to make it show as Cell is edit the contact on the standard contacts application, click on the "cell" button you want to fix, select a different type (like "Cell (Home)" or "Phone"), click again on the button and select "Cell" again and save the contact.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Have you had a previous version installed?

Please send me the file /home/user/.config/Crochik/MyContacts.conf for me to confirm that is indeed the problem I think it is.

I will release a new version today that should fix the issue by itself or I can give instructions on how to fix it manually.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Yes - changing back and forth the label worked! Thanks!

PS. My first idea was to install the app just get some impressions of it adn then return to standard contact shortcuts, but it turned out MyContacts far more polished than I expected and with temps it is developing soon it will be consumer grade product! ;-)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Yes, I had some previous version installed, at some time. I'm guessing the problem's related to the "DoubleClickSpan=0" in my .conf file?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

You got it!

At some point I had a version that would have 0 as the default (what does not work).

You can just delete the line and the application will restore with the new default or you can change it to the default (300) yourself.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

New release uploaded to the repository - 0.9.1-1

This release addresses two of the most requested features/changes:

• You can assign contacts without avatars to groups and see them on your desktop.
• The Widget shows the contact status.

Showing the contact status on the widget must prompt the next TOP request: starting skype calls (skype-skype (audio and video), skype-phone, skype-sms, google voice, ...) - It will be my next challenge after making sure this version is stable. Please note that since last release you can start skypeOut to place international calls (using VICaR).

In order to promote these changes some other things had to be changed. You will notice some side effects here and there, some may be improvements over the previous version and some may feel like a step backward. Please make sure to comment on those so I can explain the implications and as much as possible make them into user settings on a future release.

For lots of other changes and more details see change log

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hi fcrochik,

What is the backward step you mentioned? It's probably a good thing that I couldn't find any. I notice the app now open a separate window to show the contact info, which seems to make the UI more responsive.

However, I still experience the issue of the app not automatically turning to portrait when orientation is set to auto. This only happens right after launching the app.... for example I hold the phone in portrait and launch mycontact, then the orientation sticks at landscape no matter how hard I shake the phone. But if I go to task switcher then back to mycontact, it automatically change to portrait mode. If I close mycontact and re-launch it, it doesn't change its orientation again.

I am able to consistently re-produce this, and didn't experience this issue on other apps such as FeedingIt and Stockthis.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hey can u post some screen shots of both potrait and landscape modes?????

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Some small things like not scaling the thumbnails on the Avatars View.

Thanks for pointing it out.

It is something that I have noticed myself with all the qt applications I wrote for maemo. The auto rotation only start to work after I first show the application menu once.

I have to say that it is known that the autorotation has several bugs/issues but I don't know if this one is just something that I am doing wrong.

I will have to investigate further.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I find the double click interval really set too short - I have to try my best to get key presses so quick. It is almost like executing final boss finishing sequence on my PSP ;-)
I changed DoubleClickSpan to 900, but didn't notice any change in behavior. What exactly this number means and how changed it will affect double click to call number?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Am I the only one who like the bigger avatars? It would be great to have bigger avatar in contact info windows, too.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

In order to have it work the way I wanted I had to have the double click act independently from the single click otherwise one double click attempt to start a call would fail because the first click would show the "contact details" window and the second would never land on the widget. I am not fully satisfied with the solution but haven't heard too many complaints and/or have figured out a better way.

All this to say that the DoubleClickSpan is the time in milliseconds that the application will wait after the mouse is pressed to decide if it was a double click or a single click. If during this time you get another "mouse down" event it will figure out this was a double click, if not, regardless of when the mouse button was actually released will assume it was a single click.

I would guess most likely the issue is not with the speed .Does it work any better if you use the pen?

If you set it as 900 it should give you almost a second to press twice (you can tell how long the application is waiting for the second click by the orange glow on the contact).

Last: double click is not a very good idea for "thumb" interfaces but was the simplest one to start with... Another option would be to have a short and long click (the same used to show popup menus on other applications) - not sure if it is any better....

I am always open to other ideas.. anybody?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I do like them as well but they don't look too good when I have to overstretch them...

The standard contacts application does not attempt to standardize the avatars in size so you have different image sizes for avatars you assign on the phone, for skype avatars and others... On the Widget I decided to fill the area using whatever size of image was available. On the "avatars view" on the application I decided to use whatever size I had available just because would save resources/processing. On the contact detail window I just didn't decide to do anything... :)

I plan to allow for some new settings so you can control how the avatars are rendered on different places. Thank you for the input.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

@fcrochik
Do I have to restart app or only close and reopen widget in order the .conf file to be read? I do not notice any change in behavior of double click when I change the value of DoubleClickSpan. Now I am at 1500ms which is a second and a half and still I have to click as fast as I can in order to register a double click. I can clearly see my second press lands when the avatar is still glowing(blue in my case). But if I am not quick enough I get no response - neither call starts nor contacts details are opened. I've tried with the stylus - same results...

What were the arguments against long press(press and hold until call starts) for calling?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

You need to select shutdown from the menu and start the application again in order for the application to read the new setting.

None that I know of... :) It would have been for sure much easier to implement if I had thought about that before but I will add to the list for next release to make it into a setting. Would that work?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

@fcrochik
For me long press is far better for one handed thumb operation - it is fail safe. You just press and release when you see call starts.
About changing value of DoubleClickSpan - when I restart the app the values is back to default.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Sorry I forgot to mention that you need to shutdown the application then change the value then restart it.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Yeah - now change is taking effect. Double click is now usefull for me ;-)
But I would love to see double click/long press toggle in App Setting.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hi

Any news on getting the online status to display?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

@Lake
It is displayed - look for a green border frame around the avatars. It is quite thin, but when you get used you will notice it.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Ah ha! Yes I see it now thanks - still a few issues:

1. I see the border when a contact is online, but for one contact it is yellow and for another it is green - is this intentional?

2. When I select a contact who is online I notice that I cannot see all of the contacts I know are available for that person (from the original phone book). For example I cannot see the jabber ID of my contact I can see from your widget is online so I cannot message him.

Otherwise, a really useful app!

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

The yellow border means that you have more than one "online account" associated with the contact and they have different status. Please check the change log for more details.

I don't actually know what the presence status would be on the "standard contact widget" if, for instance, the contact is online on google voice and away on skype. What would you expect it to be?

Only a limited set of the contact information is supported right now and only skype as far as "online services" go.

The main goal for a next version is to handle possibly all supported online services (skype, google voice, sip, ...)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

MyContacts is competing on the Desktop Category with some other very interesting applications.

Support MyContacts voting!

Thanks

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Got my vote mate! ;-)
Still have to catch with Queen Beecon Widget though...Good luck!

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hi ,

I would like to try this application. It looks very interesting. However, I was not able to launch from GUI.

Then I tried to launch through command line. It complains

How can I fix the problem? thx

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

That is odd. I assume you have PR1.2 installed, right?
Can you try to uninstall and let me know what version you have installed?

Also, try to run on the x-terminal
it should give you some more information. (the sh script depends on the dbus to be working)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Yes , I have PR 1.2 installed.

The result of cmd:and

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Please check if you have a this file
If you do it may be corrupted (kind of odd). I would suggest that you remove all traces of the application and install it again by running this on the x-terminal as root:

The 3RD line probably will fail if the the uninstall succeed on removing the file by itself.

I would also recommend reinstalling the libqtm-contacts:

then install all again:
Please keep me posted of the progress.

EDIT: fixed package names

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thanks for reply. I don't find the libqtmcontacts . Searching on maemo packages site do not find any record. Where can I find it?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Sorry...my bad!
It is libqtm-contacts (not libqtmcontacts)

Felipe

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thx! It works after upgraded libqtm-contacts.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hi there! Great application.
Just downloaded it and started using. But something seems wrong (well, maybe I'm doing something wrong). When I click "Settings" and then "groups", I see the groups list with all the "Ring Tone" fields stating "disabled". Then when I click one of them to select a ringtone it opens the audio-clips folder, but the list is always empty (but I have a lot). How can I select a ringtone?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

The list is empty because you don't have any wav files there.

Unfortunately as now the application only supports wav files. You have to convert your files before being able to use them.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I am happy to announce that I managed to get MyConntacts to deal with telepathy and, in a near future, we will be able to use mycontacts to initiate calls and chats with all the "different n900 accounts" (skype, google voice, sip, ...)

Unfortunately it will take me a while to get it ready to be released and I will need a lot of volunteers to test it.

In the meanwhile.... :)

We are entering the last two days of the code competition (for desktop category) and MyContacts is in 4th (3 packages including MyContacts are "dueling" for the second place vote by vote). Queen Beecon has been "alone" on the first place...

Make sure to support MyContacts voting on it....

Also, make sure to cast your vote in all different categories to support the competition. In two months of this competition the community has worked hard and we got several new interesting applications for the n900 thanks to this initiative.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

You won't need any .deb files.

Are you trying to install MyContacts using the application manager or did you download the .deb file for it? The application manager is the recommended way because it will handle the dependencies automatically (including libqtm-contacts).

If you decide to install using apt-get, you will need to start the x-terminal and to become root type:

Code:

root

Note: before you can do that you need to make sure that you have installed the "rootsh" package using the application manager.

Then you should be ready to continue (from the x-terminal still as root):

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install libqtm-contacts
apt-get install mycontacts

EDIT: If you don't mind please post any other questions to the MyContacts thread directly so we don't add noise to this thread.


done all of this, how ever get the message " Package libqtm-contacts is not available, but is refered to by anther package. this may mean that the packae is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source"

i get this when i run apt-get install libqtm-contacts

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

This is really odd... Just to double check:
1. are you running pr 1.2?
2. do you have the "extras-devel" repository enabled?

what do you get if you run:

?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Nokia-N900-51-1:~# dpkg-query -l *libqtm*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libqtm-messagi 1:1.0.0-maemo1 Qt Mobility messaging module

that is what i get