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FISL2007

April 04, 2007

So, I’ll attend FISL this year. I’ll be giving a talk about Maemo and another about the latest news of GNOME. The latter is part of the GNOME brazilian community meeting where we’ll also have a talk by the pt_BR localization team and some discussion about marketing activities, how to bring more brazilian contributors to GNOME and so on. If you’re planning to attend FISL next week and love GNOME, you can’t miss it! :-)

I’m really excited about FISL this year because it will be a nice oportunity to go meet some of my best friends and nice free software people (well, those two groups overlap in many cases).

Hildon Desktop Plugin Howto

April 03, 2007

For those brave developers who are using Sardine to use/test/develop the bleeding edge Maemo stuff, this post is for you. :-)

Well, I’ve already shown before how to write Python plugins for Hildon Desktop. This time, I wrote a howto for writing C plugins for Hildon Desktop with the new GTypeModule-based API. All plugin types (Task Navigator, Status Bar and Home) are covered.

For those other super-brave developers who are building Hildon Desktop outside Scratchbox, it’s a good oportunity for you to test our plugin system and give some feedback, send patches, and report bugs.

The howto is available at:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPluginHowto

Go Go Go!

Writing a cool Python plugin for Hildon Desktop

March 29, 2007

Ok, now that I’ve shown how easy is to have the basic code for a Python plugin running in Hildon Desktop, I’d like to demonstrate something more useful and cool. I did this screencast presenting how to write a plugin which randomly shows images from your “Images” directory in your Home area. Cool hun?

Some (obvious) improvements for this plugin would be:

A configuration dialog where you can define the images directory and the delay for image switching.
Disable image switching when the device idle or when the Home area is not visible
Switch to next random image when clicking on the plugin.
What else do you want? :-P

Enjoy!

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Sidenote 1: yes, the screencast shows Hildon Desktop running on a 800×600 resolution. :-)
Sidenote 2: some people have been asking if Hildon Desktop is available in N800 already. The answer is no. Hildon Desktop is a major rewrite of maemo-af-desktop and will be shipped in the next major releases of Maemo. Of course you could run it on your N800 at your own risk. :-P

Jhbuild moduleset for Hildon Desktop

March 27, 2007

Some people naturaly requested the Jhbuild moduleset for Hildon Desktop after I posted those build instructions in Maemo wiki. So, I added Jhbuild related instruction to the wiki page. Go Go Go!