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Edughy !!11:39
sereja81hi11:39
Edugwhat is the topic of this room11:39
Edug?¿11:39
ograEdug, /topic tells you :)11:40
Edugthe tocpic is : Ubuntu for mobilie phone ?¿ 11:40
persiaNo, for mobile computers.11:41
ograwhere does it say phone ? 11:41
Edugfor laptops11:41
persia7" laptops, UMPCs, handhelds, that sort of thing.11:41
Eduga okok11:41
persiaBigger laptops are probably more suited for #ubuntu11:41
persiaAs far as I know, Ubuntu only runs on two mobile phones, and doesn't work like a phone properly on either one.11:41
Edugits posible to put Ubuntu on a PDA11:42
Edug?¿?¿11:42
persiaIf the PDA has an x86 or powerpc processor, yes.  If the PDA has an ARM processor, in a few weeks.  If the PDA has a MIPS or SH processor, launchpad doesn't support those.11:43
EdugOK11:43
EdugOne question ?¿11:43
ograheh, few weeks is pretty optimistic :)11:43
* persia suspects there are more than one, but waits for it to be asked11:43
ogra"next release" :)11:43
persiaogra, Well, alpha.11:43
ograi dont think we care about alphas atm11:44
ografor arm at least11:44
persiaHunh?  I've been following #ubuntu-arm, and hadn't heard anything about that.11:44
EdugBecause not all the laptops an desktop pc dosen't work with ubuntu11:44
ogradavid said he's happy if we have something basic but doesnt care about aplhas yet11:45
ograEdug, about 10 million users think differently i'd say11:45
persiaEdug, Hrm?  What do you mean?11:45
persiaEdug, I know some hardware doesn't work, but I suspect that's not your question.11:45
Edugbecause you con bay a desktop pc with widows and you cant bay a desktop pc with ubuntu ?¿ 11:47
persiaYes you can.  Lots of companies sell them.11:47
Edugthe most coputers works with windows wahy ?¿ 11:48
EdugLinux is more chiper than Windows11:48
EdugI think Ubuntu is not bat 11:49
persiaOh, yeah.  That's just a matter of what people are buying.  You can always replace it later.11:50
Edugbut Ubuntu dosen't work very well11:50
persiaHrm?  Which part doesn't work?11:53
EdugLikes wifi11:54
EdugLlikes gafic card11:54
persiaBoth of those work for me.  If they aren't working for you, I'd suggest filing a bug with details of your exact hardware.11:55
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NCommanderpersia, context switched.17:08
persiaRight.17:08
persiaSo on making lpia les special.17:08
persiaDid I ever give you that package list?17:08
NCommanderNope17:08
persiaAh.  Right.17:09
persiaDo you want it right now, or can I give it to you in ~24 hours?17:09
persia(or better, put it on the wiki in about that time)17:09
NCommanderpersia, I was going to open an LP bug with tasks :-)17:10
persiaI don't like doing that as long as there's still the can't unsubscribe bug.17:10
NCommandercan't unsubscribe?17:11
persiaThere's a bug in LP that implicit subscribers can never unsubscribe from a bug, even if it doesn't apply to their package.17:11
persiaAs a result, opening a bug with lots of tasks tends to send *every* comment to lots of people that don't care.17:12
persiaThis tends to annoy them.17:12
NCommanderah I see17:12
NCommanderHow long is this list?17:12
persia50-60 packages.17:13
NCommanderO_o;17:13
NCommanderDamn17:13
persiaYeah.17:13
NCommanderIf you email me the list, I'll wikify it17:13
persiaAnyway, I'll get it on the wiki within 24 hours.17:13
persiaJust as easy for me to put it on the wiki as mail it.  I don't have a current one, and need to regenerate.17:14
persia(and want to stop being on IRC for about 15 hours)17:14
NCommanderah17:14
NCommanderits just I won't be on much tommorow17:15
persiaWell, I'll get you ten quick ones now then.  Hold up.17:15
persiacairo-clock, claws-mail, contacts, dates, fbreader, galculator, liferea17:21
persiaWell, 7, because I'm lazy right now.17:21
persiaThose are all likely candidates, based on package history and changelogs.17:22
persiaOne or more might be fine, but I suspect they're special.17:22
persiaTo do it right, I need to refresh my local package cache for that class of packages, unpack them, and grep in debian/rules, but that takes time.17:22
NCommanderpersia, I would have just checked hildons rdepends on lpia and regular :-)17:26
persiaNot every lpia-specific patch has to do with hildon.  Some are considerably more awkward.17:27
NCommandergrepping claws-mail for lpia shows nothing ...17:27
persiaThere were a few cases where a .desktop file would be installed iff it was built on lpia.  I think those all got excised for intrepid.17:27
persiaAh, good.  That one got cleaned up then.17:28
persiaMy candidates cache is from somewhere mid-intrepid, which is part of why I wanted to give you the list later.17:28
NCommandersure, no issue17:28
persiaAnyway, good luck.  Be back in a while.17:29
NCommanderpersia, thanks, cya17:29
charlespaxDuring Jaunty development will there be daily builds of ubuntu-umpc?18:11
persiaOnce it's stable enough to make sense, yes.18:12
charlespaxVery good. thanks.18:19
NCommanderpersia, do you mind reviewing my changeset for galculator. It's properly split and I get the debs correct, but I'd like just a second eyes to look it over quickly18:24
persiaNCommander, I really want to be asleep, and intend to depart again as soon as I'm done with the current argument.  Subscribe me to the bug, and I'll look at it when I'm properly back.18:25
NCommanderpersia, what bug?18:25
persiaAh.  pastebin it then18:27
persiaMy argument doesn't seem to be dying.18:27
NCommanderpersia, http://pastebin.ca/125708218:28
NCommanderer18:28
NCommanderright, you can't access pastebin.ca18:28
NCommanderpersia, http://paste.ubuntu.com/72471/18:29
persiaLooks sane to me.18:32
NCommanderwow18:32
NCommanderWhen you run a hildonized package in a non-hildon environment18:33
NCommanderit acts weird18:33
NCommanderpersia, that, and the icon was MIA :-/18:34
ograwhat did you expect ? 18:34
NCommanderogra, I had no expectations :-)18:35
ograheh18:35
NCommanderI dunno if the icon is missing because of my modifications18:35
NCommanderOr because I don't have Hildon/MID/etc. installed18:35
NCommanderany ideas ogra & persia 18:36
ograwhats the Icon lne in the .desktop file ?18:36
persiaProbably because you're not running in hildon.  Things are a little different there.18:36
NCommanderogra, there is a difference in the mobile package to try and load a different icon18:36
NCommander(which obviously doesn't exist <g>)18:36
persiaNCommander, Check debian/install?  Maybe that needs replication of some sort?18:37
* NCommander is trying to find the mid seed so he can keep a branch with the -mobile changes18:37
ograwell, hildon isnt as close to xdg standard as it should18:37
NCommanderpersia, the only change in the original rules was the sed line18:37
ograso if you use the app in a normal xdg compliant desktop it might not work as expected18:37
persiaNCommander, Yes, but remember, you're doing a package split.18:38
NCommanderpersia, I make install twice into both packages18:38
NCommanderThe file its referencing isn't in this source package18:38
persiaAh.  Probably some theme package then.18:39
NCommanderSeems so18:39
NCommanderno objections to uploading?18:39
* NCommander is keeping a branch of the seeds package for everything I touch, so once thats merged, mobile is good to go18:40
persiaBest if you could test against MID in a KVM, but no clear objections.18:40
NCommanderI could stage the changes in a PPA18:40
* NCommander notes get getting MID going in a PPA is a PITA18:40
NCommanders/PPA/QEMU\/KVM/g18:41
ogra5 months to fix it18:43
persiaNCommander, The images should just boot in KVM/QEMU18:45
persiaThere's a tool to convert for vbox, which which several people have reported success.18:45
* NCommander uploads to his PPA18:45
NCommanderprobably easier that way then any other18:46
persiaJust upload it.18:46
persiaOr if you want to test, build it in sbuild/pbuilder/whatever and ssh it to a VM.18:46
NCommanderI have trouble with that last bit18:46
persiaBest is to build natively on a target device, but that requires rare HW.18:46
persiaNCommander, What trouble?18:47
NCommandergetting network to work18:47
persiaIn qemu/kvm?18:47
NCommanderI just found my old lpia image18:47
NCommanderThis will work18:47
NCommanderyeah18:47
persiaShould just work by default.18:47
NCommanderI usually have to pass some voodoo command line switchs to get it working18:48
NCommanderdavidm, ping18:56
davidmHello18:56
NCommanderdavidm, am I correct in believing your the person in charge of ubuntu-mobile/mid? (your the team owner)18:57
davidmIndeed I am18:57
NCommanderdavidm, to save you the backscroll, I'm working to split out the lpia specific hacks into proper packages (i.e., galacalcator to gacalculator-mobile)18:58
NCommanderSo that mid could be installed on a non-lpia architecture18:58
NCommanderBasically, where do you want the bazaar branch w/ the seed changes?18:58
davidmNCommander, that would be a question best asked of lool, or StevenK.  lool is the tech lead of the project, StevenK does a lot of work on the seeds19:00
davidmI'm happy to get you an answer but it will take a bit of time lool is not reachable today and StevenK is likely sleeping at this time.19:01
NCommanderdavidm, do issues with me uploading before the seed changes are made?19:01
davidmNCommander, perhaps you should make your own branch of the seed, and propose for merging into lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/mobile.Jaunty?19:02
NCommanderhave and done already <g>19:02
NCommanderdavidm, the only question left is should the split package come out as -mobile, or -mid?19:04
* NCommander notes he feels a little confused between the two19:04
davidm-mid is screens < 6" and have touch screen with it, -mobile >6" may or may not have touch screen19:05
* NCommander is less confused but still seeks an answer19:05
davidmAlso "MID" is hildonised, mobile is not19:06
NCommanderso Hildon modifications should end up in package-mid and not package-mobile?19:07
davidmCorrect19:08
NCommanderdavidm,  This package is specifically configured and designed for Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices 19:11
NCommander and will not functional properly on a normal Ubuntu Desktop installation.19:11
NCommanderThat's what I'll add to the bottom of the description19:11
davidmOk19:12
ogragacalculator-mobile ? 19:13
ograwhy not -hildon 19:13
ograif thats the differentiation criteria19:13
NCommanderNot all packages that different on lpia differ because of hildon19:14
NCommanderI'd perfer a consistant naming scheme between packages that are split between normal and mobile/mid19:14
ograwell19:15
ogra-umpc does definately not change any packages19:15
ograbut is a -mobile flavour19:15
NCommanderWell, the current suggestion is -mid19:16
NCommanderBut ...19:16
NCommander:-P19:16
NCommanderif you think its a bad idea19:16
ograwell, then use -mid as suffix19:16
ograi think generalizing on -mobile is bad19:16
NCommanderfair enough19:16
NCommanderogra, unless you think we should use -hildon?19:16
ograthats a team name and describes the set of images19:16
ograwe might have -netbook at some point for example19:17
davidmand likely will19:17
ograso -mid, -umpc and -netbook would fal under the general term "mobile"19:17
NCommanderI guess the question is if we split a package, do we split it w.r.t to the flavor it belongs to, or the feature(s) we change/enable on that flavor19:17
ograbut only -mid requires the hildonization19:17
* ogra would go for features19:18
NCommanderso then -hildon?19:18
ograwell, you said there is more than hildon19:18
NCommanderOn some19:18
* ogra doesnt know many19:18
NCommanderThis specific package is just changes for hildon19:18
ograi think its likely the majority19:19
NCommanderso you perfer -mid over -hildon?19:19
ograand imho the source should just spit out a hildonized version where possible19:19
NCommanderThe source package?19:19
ograi personally prefer -hildon19:19
ograto describe the patchset19:19
ograyeah, one sourcepackage 19:20
ogratwo binaries19:20
NCommanderright19:20
NCommanderthat's what we're doing :-)19:20
NCommanderThere is one change beside hildon19:20
ograone applies the hildonization and spits out the -hildon package19:20
NCommandersed -i -e 's/Name=Galculator/Name=Calculator/'19:20
ograthe other stays as is19:20
NCommanderFair enough19:20
NCommanderso -hildon19:20
* ogra wanders off for some TV19:21
NCommanderuploaded19:37
charlespaxI flashed the ubuntu-8.10-umpc-i386.img image to a usb disk. Is that more like a regular install or a live CD? I want to know if I do a 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade', will the updates be permanent? 22:06
NCommanderAnother hildon package bites the dust22:15
NCommanderwell, lpia specific22:16
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persiacharlespax: The 8.10 images are like a liveCD23:37

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