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[daniel.faulkner]

Is anyone actively working on GPE currently? I've been following the project on and off
(trying it on my palmtop/virtual machine), but not too closely.

From the mailing list it looks like all thats been happening recently are bug fixes for the
components used in Maemo/Mer and some talk about a new theme, but not much is
mentioned about progressing towards a future release and improving the parts of GPE
that aren't used by other projects.

It would be interesting to know what the current plans are for GPE. Would be good to
see a new release, but I expect any release would be mostly bug fixes, a new theme
and some of the dependancies updated to take advantage of any new features or
fixes.

Looking forward to your feedback,

Daniel

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[daniel.faulkner]

> > This sounds like it would be very useful, if you want someone to  
> > proof read a few chapters and get some feed back from someone who's  
> > not a GPE developer (but wouldn't mind helpping to fix a few of the  
> > easier bugs I come across). Feel free to send me a link/copy of your  
> > work in progress.
>
> You can download the draft on:
>
http://www.innerzaurus.com/index.php/proyectos/desarrollo-gpe/25
4-guia-de-programacion-de-gpe-eng
>
> Direct link
> http://www.innerzaurus.com/downloads/GPE_Compilation_v0.1.pdf

Thanks, thats a really useful guide. I'm impressed, I expected just a few notes
in a
text document or wiki so to get a pdf document with diagrams and pictures is
really cool.

Will you be releasing the guide under a CC or public domain license? I'm only
asking
as you can't (without paying) edit a pdf so when you plan to release the guide
you
might want to make a .odt version available and mention what license it can be
modified/distributed under.

I've tried following your guide to compile the gpe-calc and the
gpe-mini-browser2. It
was pretty flawless and there were no errors worth mentioning really. So far so
good
(but I'll let you know if I think of something).

On the dependencies side of things for debian/ubuntu the packages are:
build-essential and gnome-devel (if you wanted to make a note of that in the
next
revision)

For the gpe-mini-browser2 I didn't need to do anything different from the other
gpe
software packages except make sure I had the webkit-dev package installed.

However when I was testing the browser it did crash on a few sites (admittedly I
was
trying to stress test it a bit), this might be webkit related or something to do
with
the gpe-mini-browsers error handling but the only output on the console is
"segmentation fault". So maybe on your next revision of the guide you
could add a
section on how to build the packages with the debugging support and how to
find/fix
errors.

> > GTK is something I would like to get more involved with (but not  
> > really done much with so far), but would be interesting to see the  
> > requests, are they all in the bug tracker or is there a wiki page  
> > with the more practical suggestions listed?
>
> Requested features are on:http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/GpeThingsToDo

I remember seeing that before sometime. I'll try installing/running a complete
GPE
environment in a virtual machine at some point and evaluating GPE properly so I
can
add add any suggestions I think of.

> > Also the instant messanging client might benefict from moving to the  
> > telepathy framework and having a GPE specific front end written
>
> You can use Pidgin for messeging

You can, but gnome is now using empathy which I believe which is based on the
telepathy framework and it might be an interesting project for someone looking
to get
involved in GPE to make a frontend which is designed from the start with small
palmtop sized screens in mind.

Talking of creating new programs in GPE it would be nice to have at a later
point to
have section on creating a hello world type application in your guide. I see
there is
a gpe-hello application which is probably there for learning from and it would
be
nice to have a mini walk through on how to write something like that.
 
> > Finally I know that the openmoko people have  been working on a opkg  
> > package > format in the past which might be worth looking into if  
> > the GPE package manager doesn't yet support the format.
>
> OPKG is used on �ngstr�m distribution, it's similar to IPKG

Does GPE have an application manager/add and remove software program that is
capable
of using opkg graphically or is that something the distribution has added
separately
from GPE?
 
> There's a IRC channel, on freenode network, #gpe-project

I'll add it to my list of IRC channels to sign into occasionally. (when I get
time
which is rare those days).


Regards,
Daniel

(Sorry Miguel for sending this to you twice, I forgot when replying to check the
address was the list email and not your personal email, so I'm re-posting it to the
list for the benefit of anyone reading this email exchange)

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[Miguel Menéndez]

> Thanks, thats a really useful guide. I'm impressed, I expected just  
> a few notes in a text document or wiki so to get a pdf document with  
> diagrams and pictures is > really cool.
It's a brief for GPE compilation, new sections must be added on a future.

> Will you be releasing the guide under a CC or public domain license?  
> I'm only asking as you can't (without paying) edit a pdf so when you  
> plan to release the guide you might want to make a .odt version  
> available and mention what license it can be > modified/distributed  
> under.

I have not think license of document but it will be one of both  
licenses (CC / public). Document is develop with
LaTeX, a "text language similar to html".

> I've tried following your guide to compile the gpe-calc and the
> gpe-mini-browser2. It was pretty flawless and there were no errors  
> worth mentionin really...
It would be interesting add gpe-mini-browser to the doc

> On the dependencies side of things for debian/ubuntu the packages are:
> build-essential and gnome-devel (if you wanted to make a note of that in the
> next revision)
Ok

> However when I was testing the browser it did crash on a few sites  
> (admittedly I
> was trying to stress test it a bit), this might be webkit related or  
> something to do
> with the gpe-mini-browsers error handling but the only output on the  
> console is
> "segmentation fault".
I think florian is working with this app.

> So maybe on your next revision of the guide you could add a
> section on how to build the packages with the debugging support and how to
> find/fix errors.
Yes

> Does GPE have an application manager/add and remove software program that is
> capable of using opkg graphically or is that something the  
> distribution has added
> separately from GPE?
OPKG has console apps only


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