Re: [SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

2014-05-15 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Bernd, Ove, Thanks a lot your answers! I did get the feeling that Jolla had kept the 'devel-su' name but used it for a completely different purpose. This clarifies everything. Cheers, Mehdi On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Ove Kåven wrote: > On 13. mai 2014 15:14, Mehdi El G

[SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

2014-05-13 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Hi, I'm been googling long and hard but haven't been able to find much information about the 'devel-su' command, beyond the fact that it's the command to use on Sailfish to switch to the root user. I also couldn't find the source code for it anywhere. If there is someone with more insider knowled

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

2014-05-11 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:31 PM, wrote: > I'd like to make a few tweaks to fingerterm for my Jolla. So I went to get > the source code but can't seem to find it anywhere. So with the help of David, Andrey, Thomas and Kalle here, I was able to find and build and tweak the fingerterm app that shi

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

2014-04-12 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Thanks guys. You wouldn't believe how long I spent looking for this when it was staring at me the whole time :) I also just found the official code dump location for all the open source components Sailfish uses: http://releases.sailfishos.org/sdk/latest/ It was actually clearly mentioned in the S