This week started with a national and I probably was busy studying for my upcoming math exams. Tuesday was just a normal day and the evening was mostly spent communicating and finishing our assignment which consisted out of reviewing questions of a survey. On wednesday the LinuxTag started and Doku and me met Knut and went out to have a dinner. Trolltech shared a booth with KDAB and my old friends from ROAD. Their device looks promising and the chasing…
I have bashed Trolltech publically and privately a lot but I can do the opposite as well. Last November I have celebrated a birthday for Trolltech for going proprietary. But some things have changed. They have released Qtopia as GPL but in contrast to previous releases they publish maintenance releases in time as GPL as well. So this is really awesome and I hope this continues with the next major release. It is true that certain features such as SXE,…
Wow, I decided to work on WebKit in the public for OpenMoko as I thought the interest in WebKit was quite low. That is luckily not the case. There are a lot of people interested, some of them are allowed to work full-time and some part-time on it. From an Embedded Linux point of view the main obstacle of WebKit is storage size. It is doing million times better than Gecko but there are still some issues. Require libicu for…
The RSS reader is capable of caching feeds. Inspired by reading the “Mythical Man Month” this winter I have created a MokoCache to control the storage size of the feeds. Well the API is present but there is enforcement on the size yet but it would be easy to add. Caching of images and displaying of HTML is still not implemented.I’m busy hacking on WebKit/Gdk, keeping it compiling, making it work and slowly improving it. I have finally mailed Sean…
I don’t get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING files and instead start randomly deleting files and directories on their disk. I don’t get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING and waste hours of their time compiling and recompiling applications and libraries. I don’t get it why people refuse to read NEWS and UPDATING and mess up their system by randomly moving and copying files around I don’t get people who scream for recipes…
I’m still happy with libmrss as it allows me to completely focus on the representation and management of the data. Today I finally found the time to work on the application again and progressed nicely. My RSS RFC822 date parser was finished, I looked into check the unit testing framework and wrote unit tests for my parser. I added check to the build process, fixed the internationalisation of the reader and made use of the GtkTreeModelSort to allow sorting by…
As promised check http://www.openembedded.org/~zecke/opengl/ for my first compiz and OpenGL expierence. This simple plugin gets the texture of one of the active top level windows and either draws it on a cube or draws many many rotating and scaled rectangles using this texture. The ambilight effect is due me not unbinging the texture after I’m done drawing.I really can’t wait untl OpenGL ES gets common on mobile devices. PS: Mallum I think I have found video-cube.c code in one of…
Things to do Take more tests/exams… Make sugar run on Feisty and use exmap and massif to compare the WebKit/Qt to Mozilla. Somehow only the sample/test app is working and the webactivity is not. I really need to do this and ping danimo and send a mail to laptop.org Setup automatic builds and coverage generation for KDE. But KDE4 on FreeBSD needs some work Find some more time to spend on dolphin Finish the new BitBake parser Finish my tinderbox…
Well,another feature we have talked about and people should start to use. OpenEmbedded has a new file it is called conf/checksums.ini and can contain MD5 and SHA256 sums for the files OpenEmbedded will use. This can be checksums of TARBALL_STASHS, local files or the usual ftp/wget. IMHO we should make this file as complete as possible and strictly require sums for http/ftp downloads. Currently this file only contains one single entry file-native 4.20. And as people like screenshots here is…
Compiz is a really promising thing. Together with AIGL/XGL it basicly allows you to get any XWindow as a OpenGL 2D Texture. This includes Gecko, SDL games, ancient apps, videos. So you really get everything as a 2D Texture. Using this texture allows you to do funny things. I just returned home after doing one of the many cool things. So what we do is grab the texture of the currently active window and draw many many rotated quads, triangles,…