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..or is it actually faster than the default theme? Once I’ve ironed out everything I’ll proably be pushing this as the default theme on my own images.

The theme is fairly basic, but removes most of the images which should help with resources and I think, make the Neo more responsive.

The theme itself is based on “Clearlooks-DarkCoffee” by Franco Gotusso (sorry no link). Essentially I’ve merged bits from the original Openmoko theme and the Clearlooks-DarkCoffee themes picking the parts I wanted from each, but with the primary goal of making thinks work faster.

update: I’ve been getting requests for the theme so I am making is available for download, although it is a work in progress so will change in the future. When you untar the archive it will create an openmoko-standard-2 folder, replace the existing one in /usr/share/themes/ on your Neo1973.

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Tagged with: openmoko • opensource
March 22, 2008 20:25

Mickey Lauer recently told us about some interesting developments presented at FOSDEM. More work has taken place and images can now be built – so as always that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll add this to my regular building regime – although the rate of change in this image will probably be a little slower than the main Openmoko and ScaredyCat images . The first one has already been uploaded to my buildhost so you can test it out for yourself right now. Please remember that although it works and you can make and receive calls this is experimental stuff. As long as you bear this in mind everyone will be happy.

There’s an awful lot of work gone into this by emdete (irc nick) for which he should be congratulated. Not only is it a working prototype but he has been thinking outside the box – more of this is needed for new opensource devices to make it in the marketplace. I’ve chatted to emdete on irc and he is aware of some of the shortcomings of this first release. Primarily he was keen to get a working version to demonstrate at FOSDEM, which makes sense. In the future we can look forward to a more modular approach and of course, for those of us who don’t speak German, localization.

These new images also serve as a test-bed for Mickey Lauer’s gsm mux daemon which, wonderfully, has a dbus interface, something I really would like to see in all the daemons in Openmoko.

Tagged with: image builds • neo 1973 • openmoko • opensource
March 1, 2008 21:00

I’d noticed that one of the developers had added a dependency on gpsd to the image build. Unfortunately gpsd depends on python-ncurses when you use –python in the build. While I’m sure they tested first, there is no .bb for python-ncurses in oe dev. Since this is preventing me building I am removing the dependency on gpsd from my builds. This allows me to build as normal. It is also preventing the build of gpsd but older versions should still work.

This should only affect people who build from oe dev and not the om version and should be fixed at some point. Although I am unsure as to why Openmoko is depending on gpsd anyway, at least at this stage.

Update: This should now be fixed. I’ll be rebuilding today’s build and making them available soon (busybox currently broken). Thanks go to Michael “mickeyl” Lauer…

Tagged with: image builds • openmoko • opensource • software
February 13, 2008 14:23

Today Trolltech have released a new Qtopia SDK for the Neo 1973. The download is and ISO which apparently contains a VMWare virtual machine so everything you need to compile and generate your own flash images is included. You’ll also need to get a copy of the Qtopia source of course, but you can get it here so that’s not a problem.

Tagged with: neo 1973 • opensource • qtopia • Trolltech
February 11, 2008 9:58

Somone has just directed me to Miro a free, opensource video player and downloader. What’s even better is that it runs on Mac’s Windows PC’s and Linux.This could well be a huge kick in the backside for the likes of Joost who offer a similar experience. The differences are important though. Miro is free, opensource and doesn’t use DRM – although in the long run the lack of DRM may actually hurt Miro. Miro has some good introductory channels for you to browse, you can even download screencasts of how to use it. My problem now is to find more disk space for all those youtube videos of talking cats.. 😉

I look forward to finding an Openmoko channel there soon.

Tagged with: linux • opensource
January 28, 2008 14:14