Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Hi all, and thanks a lot for your replies! We did investigate the patents before deciding to start the project and they do indeed seem to be US-only. So, as long as Jolla isn't even available in the US, everything should be fine. On the other hand, just to be on the safe side, we thought about le

Re: [SailfishDevel] Where is the source code for the Sailfish OS version of fingerterm (and other GPL applications)

2014-04-15 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2014-04-16 2:14 GMT+03:00 Mehdi El Gueddari : > --- Problem 2 --- > Once shadow build had been disabled, I was able to build the arm version > fine and run it on my device. But when I tried to build the i486 version, > the build failed with: > > /opt/cross/bin/i486-meego-linux-gnu-ld: terminal.o: R

Re: [SailfishDevel] Where is the source code for the Sailfish OS version of fingerterm (and other GPL applications)

2014-04-15 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Thomas, Andrey, Thanks a lot for having taken the time to write this. This helped *a lot*. This is the sort of info that you just can't guess or work out by just reading the docs or the commit log (at least if you're not already intimately familiar with the platform in question). So I eventually

Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread dadiego
But how does it work for the other swype like keyboards available for android? I can't see any differences to the original one. Am Tue Apr 15 2014 20:49:46 GMT+0200 (CEST) schrieb Michael Doube: > On 15/04/14 19:39, Martin Kolman wrote: > >> A quick look at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry for

Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Doube
On 15/04/14 19:39, Martin Kolman wrote: >> A quick look at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry for Swype confirms >> my suspicion... (2 US patents). :-( > Well, they look like to be US patents - so considering the Jolla is not > even sold in the USA & it would be an external application anyway, I > d

Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Martin Kolman
15.4.2014 20:03, Michael Doube: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently decided to start working on a Swype-like keyboard I really like the idea to have some Swype-like input for Jolla - it's one of the hardest things to leave behind from N9, and something you really notice wh

[SailfishDevel] SailfishOS SDK April update available tomorrow.

2014-04-15 Thread Jarko Vihriala
Hello again, Tomorrow (16 April) at 10:00 UTC we will publish new installers, and package repositories for our Sailfish OS SDK version Alpha-1404-Qt5. Please note that links in this email are updated at that time as well. We apologise for the long delay between the SDK updates. We had to comple

Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Michael Doube
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I recently decided to start working on a Swype-like keyboard I really like the idea to have some Swype-like input for Jolla - it's one of the hardest things to leave behind from N9, and something you really notice when going to plain touchscreen key

Re: [SailfishDevel] SDL_mixer: different behaviour between emulator and actual device

2014-04-15 Thread Iosif Hamlatzis
Just verified it the sample from https://github.com/thp/sdl2-opengles-test regarding the mixer only works on the emulator. On the emulator every time you touch the screen a sound (.ogg file format) is played, but on the actual device no sound comes out. Did something go wrong when SDL2_mixer was

[SailfishDevel] [Minutes][FollowUp] A kickoff meeting about SailfishOS, open source, collaboration, way forward @ 15 April, 15:00 UTC

2014-04-15 Thread Thomas B. Rücker
Hi, thanks to everyone for the great discussion. It was a pleasure to chair it. Without further ado, here are the meeting minutes: Minutes: http://merproject.org/meetings/mer-meeting/2014/mer-meeting.2014-04-15-15.00.html Minutes (text): http://merproject.org/meetings/mer-meeting/2014/mer-

Re: [SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Bartek Taczała
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 01:07:51 PM Vivia Nikolaidou wrote: > Hi, > > I recently decided to start working on a Swype-like keyboard as a > maliit plugin. My question at this point is about how to get the input > data from the finger movement - as in, the curve that the finger draws > on the scre

Re: [SailfishDevel] Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 0.51 s in the future

2014-04-15 Thread Chris Walker
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:22:39 +0100 David Greaves wrote: > On 14/04/14 14:49, Chris Walker wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:26:58 +0100 > > Chris Walker wrote: > > I installed the ntp client and it now picks up network time. I'm > > assuming therefore that there is some time 'slip' between the

[SailfishDevel] Starting point for a Swype-like keyboard

2014-04-15 Thread Vivia Nikolaidou
Hi, I recently decided to start working on a Swype-like keyboard as a maliit plugin. My question at this point is about how to get the input data from the finger movement - as in, the curve that the finger draws on the screen, as well as its relative position to the letters as laid out on the keyb

Re: [SailfishDevel] Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 0.51 s in the future

2014-04-15 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi David As we are in danger of taking this thread in a direction that the OP CDW probably did not intend I'll keep it short(ish) 8-) You are right that NTP is very tricky when VMs are involved. VMs need exactly the right NTP config to work properly (e.g. to jump the time quickly afte

Re: [SailfishDevel] Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 0.51 s in the future

2014-04-15 Thread David Greaves
On 15/04/14 07:07, christopher.l...@thurweb.ch wrote: > Hi Thomas > > Earlier this year in addition to my normal day job I took over responsibility > for a server farm of over 50 servers both real and virtual. Their clocks, > system > and hardware were all over the place. This lead to strange kno