stlc45xx in staging

stlc45xx (the fully GPLv2 WLAN driver for N800/N810) was included to the staging tree in Linux  2.6.30. Now it’s possible to use linux-omap kernels with an in-tree WLAN driver. (Unfortunately N800/N810 support is broken in linux-omap tree currently, but that’s another story.) This means that the stlc45xx gitorious repository will be phased out and all [...]

Last day at GCDS

So, for me and some other Igalians, today was the last day at GCDS.

I also gave an introduction to Hildon 2.2. On this introduction, I talked about how to use the new widgets introduced on Hildon 2.2 as well as ways of accomplishing the same functionalities when porting an application to Maemo Fremantle. To better illustrate this, I compared the EOG for Maemo with the desktop version.

The presentation slides are below:

And that’s it, I must say I really liked my first GUADEC and I’m willing to go for the next one!
Maybe I’ll be able to write some post-event posts to compensate the lack of blogging during these days.

Playing Quake on an 5800 with BlueMaemo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAZh0BBOfs8

Yesterday I received a feedback comment here, saying that BlueMaemo can be used to control games in some S60 devices (Thanks Hath!!!), so just tried with my 5800 and the result is in the video above . Playing those games with the tv-out feature of the phone is even cooler

Required software and instructions here.

Note: In order to play Quake 2 in the 5800 you need to turn off OpenGL ES in the game menu.

Modest talk at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Slides and screencast

On monday we (Sergio and me) had the talk about Modest for Fremantle in Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Good to see some people interested in our work.

Just Modest is getting a really pretty good shape. Definitely, it’s really cool what we could do with Hildon 2.2/Gtk toolkit. We moved to a really great UI in a few weeks! Also, lots of bugfixes, so Modest is far more reliable now, and also more easy to use than ever.

The slides: Modest talk at Guadec/Desktop Summit 2009

And the  screencast of Modest in Maemo5/Fremantle SDK

Qt and Nokia, the bigger plan?

So, it has been announced that Nokia is to adopt Qt as its preferred toolkit for the next-but-one iteration of the Maemo platform, Harmattan. This has stirred up a little developer concern as GTK and C developers contemplate switching to Qt and C++ but is this really warranted? and what are Nokia's reasons for the switch? Well, it seems that Nokia has no other choice if it wants to continue to compete in a very different world from the one it has dominated for the past several years and here's why.

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