[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Porting applications for Maemo

[From: sampo.nurmentaus at movial.fi]

Hi,

> I am doing the web page to the www.katix.org. As addition to headers, it 
> need some GUI fine tuning. One interesting thing is that when i minimize 
> the window, it just disapears and i don't know how to maximize it again. 
> It looks a like that it needs least to have maemo specific to get 
> working correctly.


This thing really is maemo specific, I must say. You need
to install a .desktop file that specifies the icon name for
your application somewhere to the /etc/other-menu/ directory
structure. This directory structure describes the contens of
the others menu in task navigator.

The icon to be shown should be installed to the gtk icon theme
under /usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26/ directory structure.

After TN knows about the application, it will show an icon
for it to switch back to it.

Br,
Sampo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]
> Sent: Tue 2005-07-05 13:02
> To: kate at katix.org; maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: RE: [maemo-developers] Porting applications for Maemo
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Great stuff, I also tried to compile gpsdrive with scratchbox but failed due those header problems, could you put those tips and tricks on mailinglist, or maybe preferably on some webpage (maemo wiki?).
>
> -Joni
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org
> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of ext Kate Alhola
> Sent: 05 July, 2005 12:51
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: [maemo-developers] Porting applications for Maemo
>
>
>
> I have been porting two GPS applications to 770, the gpsdrive
> http://www.gpsdrive.cc and cumulus http://www.kflog.org/cumulus
>
> The gpsdrive is GTK program and it compiles with litte hacking with
> incompatible system headers ( some serial port stuff etc ).
> It looks a like that problem is more in gpsdrive than maemo side.
> Gpsdrive uses some features that are marked in headerfiles as obsolete
> or bsd inherited.
>
> It was easy to get running but to get it in real use needs to have
> it integraded better with maemo environment. Use events generated by
> 770 keys to controll zooming etc and optimize the GUI for 770 screen size.
> At the moment the layouts for PDA or PC are not most optimum.
>
> The cumulus is qtopia application. Qtopia has all its own environment
> and is also depending wery old qt2 series. I succeedes to isolate
> qtopia functions to separate dummy classes or just included some
> qtopia resource classes.
>
> To more easilly port qtopia stuff it may be usefull to make some
> kind of dummy qtopia layer. It is not impossible but needs some time.
>
> The qt3 compiled without larger problems. Just the uic was hanging
> or crashing with scratchbox/ARM compilation.There is some incompatibility
> with qemu and uic. When made all uic stuff with scratchbox in i386 mode
> i get qt compiled.
>
> At the moment i found some open questions.
>
> To connect GPS it needs USB serial port driver. The USB GPS modules
> actually contains USB to serial chip like ftdi or prolific.
> At the moment there is not at all in real device /lib/modules.
> Most propably it needs to have module for usb chip unless it is
> compiled into kernel.
>
> Then i tried to take screenshots from real 770 device, I noticed that
> it is listening the only unix domain socket so i can't grap screen with
> external application. I also compiled xgrabsc to grab screen locally
> but xgrapsc just makes the device to boot.
>
>
> I will put first screenshots to www.katix.org when i succeed to get them.
> I also try to get real GPS work with 770 and then i can release first
> alpha versions of these ports.
>
> Kate
>
>
>
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