Politecnico Open unix Labs

• @acurrie i’ve been using redcar while coding my own in qt. #
• @pablerkas because they still use moblin. i saw no difference in the ui. hoped ui was coded in qt… #

I tried to compile one of my projects for the n900 (Minerva text editor to be precise), was very lazy to set up a toolchain or scratchbox, so i said to myself “Hey let’s try the shiny new tool from Nokia – MADDE”.

So i downloaded MADDE for my laptop and installed it. Also installed MADDE client on the n900. So far so good. Next went on the maemo wiki to see what do i need to do to set up Qt Creator. I needed newer Qt Creator, version >= 1.3.80. Ok let’s do things for good. So i rolled my sleeves up and started writing PKGBUILDs. Two were needed to get latest qt and qtcreator from git and install them in /opt so they don’t conflict with distro provided ones (You can find them in aur – qt-opt-git and qtcreator-opt-git). Some things went very wrong so docs and qsqldrivers don’t seem to build or be detected(i think it’s a qt issue), but never mind qt creator starts, even if it was bragging about qt private headers…

Nice…

So i open up minerva project and set my n900 as target. I start building. All seems ok. Then BAM! i meet reality. I get error on packaging. PACKAGING? WTF? I didn’t want to package, just run my app! So i find out that madde in order to execute your *incomplete* app packages it, sends it to your device, installs it, runs it, then when you repeat it does the same steps again. That seems a fail to me.

The good thing about madde is that i got my binaries for my device, so with a couple of scp’s and wtf’s i got Minerva running on n900. Next goal -> migrate to cmake.

Minerva on N900

PS: I think i found a bug in maemo’s input. When writing in Minerva’s screen i get only caps, and shift doesn’t change case. That needs further investigation as i also experience such annoyance also in Fennec.

• @tioduke akabei? wtf? and i mean WTF? #
• compiling qt-git… #

• @schestowitz slow as hell because: 1. x86 emulation 2. wine layer #

• i want PR1.2 on my !n900. I don’t need features, i need bugfixes. #
• Got an idea, what about settting up a new community repo for !n900 with qt 4.7.0 that replaces libqt from PR1.2? #
• #poll “How Long have you been using !linux?” First distro i tried Mepis Linuxwith ol’ good KDE. Been 5years with !linux exlusively. #
• @xxtjaxx try !awesome wm. it’s really cool. I’m using it on my eeepc #
• this day will end to be hellish #

• @teeahr1 should be. At least !archlinux dousn’t usually use lots of daemons #

• @coredumb i personally prefer lua to python #
• ordered my pizza&beer #
• Come on !haikuos boot! #
• <- tidying his room #
• @gcala: who needs windows? #

• @daveqb what mugen battery, the ugly one? #
• !haikuos lost the battle with my desktop pc. Ticket #5 I hate you!! #
• @filiusdeus antiviruses suck, not firewalls #

• at home fighting with !haiku usb support #
• @corris good luck #

• @keruspe i am a nes fanatic #
• @nperry i suggest you to read the begginner’s guide. It was very useful for me. !archlinux #
• @ikaruga2099 i’m rewriting the qt gui for it. #

• @ikaruga2099 you should try netcfg, when you are not connected netcfg can disable wifi hardware. #
• @gallaecio I never managed to compile 0ad, and PKGBUILD never worked for me #
• @gallaecio anyway is the game playable? #
• @keruspe no HD tho #

I have a few news that i reserve for later.. You can already see something on github.com/admiral0