[Gpe-list] Interested in help? :-)

[Florian Boor]

Hi Jason,

> Now that my story and opening remarks are out of the way I'll get to the
> main point my my e-mail.  I am interested in helped out with GPE.  I don't
> want to make any serious commitments to start with, I'd like to just take a
> shot at adding a few features to some of the GPE applications to replace
> functionality that some of my Palm programs have so I can familiarize myself
> with the code.  After that, I'll see how I feel about other contributions.
> First and foremost, I'd like the ability to configure certain alarm
> preferences in GPE-Calendar.  I would like to add the following features:

Sounds great! Help is always appreciated! Some C experience and known GTK a
little bit is enough for starting with GPE development. The major share of the
UIs are quite simple and do not even use the latest GTK features.

> 1. Allow user to choose alarm sound (MP3? Ogg? Wav?)
> 2. Allow user to specify how many times alarm sound is played when an alarm
> is triggered
> 3. Allow user to specify how long to wait between replaying an
> unacknowledged alarm

That would be quite useful. For the Maemo devices it you should consider to use
the Maemo Alarm framework. This is well documented and quite powerful. The only
drawback of it is that its implementation is not open source and so we can't use
it outside of Maemo.

> So would you be interested in help?  If so, I'd appreciate some guidance on
> getting access to your subversion repository found at
> http://projects.linuxtogo.org/scm/?group_id=21.  The anonymous access to svn
> does not seem to work.  I keep getting asked for a username/password and
> none of the obvious choices (username: "anonymous", "" and password
> "anonymous", "") seem to work.  Also, the link to the nightly SVN snapshot
> also seems to be broken.

Yes right, ltg currently does not generate snapshots. For some reason you can
turn that feature off but the links in GForge do not dissapear.
The username and password for anonymous svn access via http is anonsvn/anonsvn.

If you have questions or need help just write to this list or drop me a private
mail if you prefer.

Greetings

Florian


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