Quim Gil said,

October 26, 2007 at 12:16 am

Hum, I told you one week ago: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-users/2007-October/007196.html

but now I see that not in a very explicit manner, sorry for writing in a rush.

In fact the Chinook repositories were open at the same time that Chinook beta SDK was released, but were almost empty until recently.

You might have noticed that the extras repository is preconfigured by default in the OS2008. As a user you need to activate it explicitly though, like i.e. Ubuntu users have to activate manually Universe. This is done in the attempt of explaining clearly that Nokia has no responsibility over the software hosted there.

Jonathan Greene said,

October 26, 2007 at 12:25 am

yeah - perhaps I should have asked for more detail, but I was not able to get that to work and figured it was off until now.

As you mention Initially extras was off but skype was broken (points to a local file on mmc1) - even though it was on my device, but I think that’s more pre-release than anything at this stage.

I think it’s actually too bad though I understand the corporate legal aspects make a user discover the repositories. That’s unfortunately not a real simple thing for someone coming to the tablet for the first time - even in the latest OS release. Anything we can collectively do to help people realize that there’s more to explore and do with their tablets is a good thing.

Quim Gil said,

October 26, 2007 at 1:36 am

Extras wasn’t off. It was on, but as full/empty as third party developers had/have it.

Skype has nothing to with this since is an application officially supported by Nokia and is using another repository under *.nokia.com.

The progress with the OS2008 and the N810 campaign showing tablet owners additional software they can (freely, in most cases) install is done through the new http://nokia.com/os2008 pages (flly deployed when the N810 sales start) linking to an improved http://maemo.org/downloads where the best software is visibly promoted.

As you see, I’m not mentioning the application manager in the device. We don’t expect the average tablet owner going there first to install additional software, it should work in the background when you click on the shiny big green one-click install arrows in the www.

Henrik Hedberg said,

October 26, 2007 at 2:36 am

Just a clarification: The Miaouw Library and its example application does not exist in maemo.org repositories (at least yet). It waits for the developers in other repository. It is used in the Mauku application, and based on the feedback users really like what it offers.

So, if you are interested in kinetic/inertial scrolling, check the example:

http://repository.innologies.com/installs/libmiaouw-example.install

More information about the Miaouw Library:

http://miaouw.henrikhedberg.com/

yerga said,

October 28, 2007 at 5:53 am

Hi Jonathan.

Could you try out this new version of mirage?

http://yerga.net/files/mirage_0.9-1_armel.deb

I think that I have removed the bug and now run from the menu.

Thank you very much.

Jonathan Greene said,

October 28, 2007 at 7:19 am

same error … I uninstalled and reinstalled the new version, but when I launch nothing happens.

yerga said,

October 28, 2007 at 8:00 am

Ok.

I will wait until new ITOS is released to debug this, because in the x86 SDK runs perfectly, but it can’t be tested graphically in the ARM SDK.

Thanks.

Jonathan Greene said,

October 28, 2007 at 8:15 pm

@yerga I’d be happy to keep testing if you want … though I can certainly understand wanting to see it for yourself firsthand.

yerga said,

October 29, 2007 at 12:37 pm

I will take you word

I hope that this time will be lucky:
http://yerga.net/files/mirage_0.9beta-2_armel.deb

Cross my fingers …

Jonathan Greene said,

October 29, 2007 at 1:14 pm

@yerga - sorry to say the same thing is happening. Just see it loading as a system status, but then nothing happens. I’ve tried a few times.

I un-installed the previous version before even trying this one thinking a fresh start might help.

yerga said,

October 29, 2007 at 6:24 pm

Thank you Jonathan.

The N810 have a terminal app out of the box, no?
Could you run it from the terminal and show me the error?

Rgs.

Jonathan Greene said,

October 29, 2007 at 7:07 pm

here you go -
$ mirage

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/mirage”, line 27, in
import mirage
File “/usr/share/mirage/mirage.py”, line 31, in
import osso
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py”, line 28, in

yerga said,

October 29, 2007 at 7:39 pm

Thanks for your help.

Well, it was a simple bug with python-osso: https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/pymaemo-developers/2007-October/000109.html

When they release a new python version (soon) it will be fixed.

Best Regards.

hexa said,

November 27, 2007 at 12:19 am

>Manager… Not that I know the root password to get this going in the >terminal anyway!

rootpass is : rootme

Jonathan Greene said,

November 27, 2007 at 12:28 am

@hexa - That has yet to work for me …