[Gta04-owner] Discussion: what are your dreams for the Openmoko Community

[NeilBrown]

On Tue, 1 May 2012 06:37:13 +0200 Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 05:46, NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:
> > Maybe instead of asking "what would you like to see" (which certainly does
> > have a place) we should be asking something more down to earth, immediate,
> > and practical.
> >
> >  - what are you working on?
> >  - what have you recently achieved?
> >  - what one thing would you like help with?
> 
> At the moment, I'm working on nothing GTA-related, since I don't have one.
> 
> I made a few patches to the SHR dialer and SMS application to
> implement a few features ('Suggest' button that shows a popup with
> contacts that have the part of the number your dialled in their
> contact info, and '...' buttont that lets you select a phone number
> from your contacts list to insert into an SMS). I also looked into
> Navit to see if I could speed it up a bit, but since it's hard (for
> me) to get it to build, I couldn't test it on the device.
> 
> I would like to be able to contribute more, but setting up a working
> build system always seems to be a major PITA! It's taken me many hours
> over many attempts to get SHR to compile and build. And then, when I
> make changes its hard to get them to the device to test. And if it
> doesn't work, you're left with plain old 'dump to a file' debugging...
> 
> If building, installing and testing were easier, I'd try to get
> involved in UI programming.

With the GTA04 (once you get one) it is quite practical to build on the GTA04
itself so hopefully testing will be easier.
When I work this way I use emacs' 'tramp' mode to edit files on the GTA04 in
my laptop's emacs - it accesses the files with ssh/scp.  Then I make/test in
an 'ssh' window.  The usb2.0 networking is noticably faster than the usb1.1 on
the GTA02.

So hopefully when yo do get a GTA04 it will all be a lot easier!!

NeilBrown
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