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Slowly getting frustrated with Qtopia

Slowly getting frustrated with Qtopia

So I have been working on this Qtopia integration. Being a good Free Software citizen I report the issues (most of the time with patches) upstream. Because I don’t like non public tasks and prefer discussions on patches I had to decide to use the qtopia-interest mailinglist (note the increased volume since february). The amount of feedback, even on obvious issues is kind of low, admitingly disappointing. I understand creating a generic framework which is easy to customize for very…

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Qtopia progress

Qtopia progress

I safely returned from Taipei and was almost in time. As I don’t have a hitchhiker guide to transatlantic traveling I had to learn it the hard way. Don’t take the arrival time for granted and plan the evening. If anyone knows how to legally get a rental copy of I’m a Cyborg but that’s ok. please tell me. Taipei is great and I hope this was my first visit in many to come. It was a pleasure to see…

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QtWebKit, Illume and Diversity

QtWebKit, Illume and Diversity

I’m writing this on one of these roundtrips when waiting for the Qtopia buildsystem to finish. I changed the mediaengine from helix to gstreamer, this means in one library another implementation gets compiled and the library is linked, maybe the other part of Qtopia needs relinking after it and that would be fine. The truth is, I switch the engine now configure of Qt desktop, Qt target and Qtopia is ran and I’m compiling Qt for the desktop, Qt for…

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Taipei, Qtopia on X11, and tracing memory allocations

Taipei, Qtopia on X11, and tracing memory allocations

I moved into the OpenMoko apartment yesterday and right to the backside of the apartment we have some kind of hill and I could not resist and had to walk up to get this city view: raster has been working on a new launcher, window decoration and application navigation for the OpenMoko device, some things are pretty hot about it. It is called illume and can be found here. This launcher is using EFL, actually it is a module for…

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QtWebKit in action

QtWebKit in action

Following up Simon’s QtWebKit in Action and to answer some comments from previous blog posts. Yes with QtWebKit you can embed QWidgets into HTML, you can control their position, size, etc. with JavaScript and apply CSS, invoke slots and such things. Lars, Simon and Girish created a demo for the DevDays it can be seen in action on the site Simon mentioned and you can grab the source from svn://labs.trolltech.com/svn/webkit/demo.

Picking (a) Company

Picking (a) Company

Many people don’t know what my nickname means even german speaking ones. The direct translation would be tick, these animals that sit on leaves, bite people and suck the blood, the ones that can cary scary deseases. But there is another side to the word, a political one. In my youth this word was used to refer to punks and similar associates by right wing people, I was labeled this way. And this is nothing to be ashamed off, the…

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QtWebkit Status update

QtWebkit Status update

Simon and Jasmin went through the API of QtWebKit. Most of the changes where changing names and parameters of methods, signals and slots. And some minor but important behaviour changes. The Plugin API is probably the only remaining feature for Qt4.4 and Lars and Simon have already progressed nicely. Simon went ahead and integrated QtWebKit into the Assistant on the way finding/marking of text was added to the QWebView and QWebPage API. Benjamin (icefox) continues adding the basic features to…

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maemo’s Scratchbox and how I feel about it

maemo’s Scratchbox and how I feel about it

The last month I have been toying with a nokia tablet and specially gstreamer and to develop the software I have used scratchbox and would like to share some feelings. What I like: Easily get the patched source of a package Easily rebuild packages using dpkg-buildpackage But these are attributes of the Debian system and not scratchbox What I can’t stand with scratchbox: Taking 8GB of my disk space not having ping or mc installed. Not having mc in their…

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The Joys of debugging WebKit

The Joys of debugging WebKit

When working on WebKit and the platform layer you come to a point where your primary browser is going to be WebKit based (or already is because you use Safari, OmniWeb,…). If you happen to use a platform that is not developed by Apple (Qt, Gtk+, Wx) you are going to be the first to see certain issues. I’m currently in this fantastic situation and have issues to see, understand and resolve. This is a brief summary of two issues…

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WebKit Demos for Qt4.4

WebKit Demos for Qt4.4

The Qt4.4 Technology Preview 1 is out and webkit is integrated into it. It is the same code as on the public WebKit.git repository, actually the copy in Qt is always a bit behind as we do the development in the public git repository. After integrating QtWebKit into Qt we needed a small demo application. So we wrote a small browser and the result can be found in demos/browser, an older snapshot can be seen below, and the rsync copy…

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