Michal Čihař - Archive for 9/2011

Continuing on my Hackweek project, I've polished GePeS a bit today.

I started with better display of GPS coordinates and added some more GPS details to separate page. Adding images for moon phase was also part of the plan, though it force me to learn how to switch application to black theme, which looks much better with moon image.

Rest of time was spent on cleaning up the code and adding preferences (for now only refresh rate).

Updated screenshots:

PS: Some numbers look weird (altitude and speed), though I'm pretty sure this is what phone reports me.

With no clear plans for Hackweek this year, I decided to play even more with N950. As I quite lack some GPS application I decided to write it :-). The feature set will be based on things I would use, though I still think it will be useful for others:

• Display basic GPS info (coordinates, speed, etc.)
• Compass
• Moon and sun rise and set calculations for current location

I've named the application as GePeS and you can find sources on Gitorious: https://gitorious.org/gepes

During first day I've managed to implement basic things, check screenshots:

As people on Gammu mailing lists probably already noticed, I don't have enough time for Gammu in past months. Simply mi priorities have shifted and can not spend so much time there anymore.

I've decided to make clear cut what I'm going to do and what not.

First of all I'm not going to put any extra effort on support for platforms I don't use. Today's release of Wammu no longer includes Windows binaries (they were broken anyway). Gammu releases will include them as long as they do not need extra effort. The very same applies to Ubuntu packages. Sorry, but backporting packages which are using up to date tools from Debian sid is more effort than I can put into it. Of course volunteers are welcome for both areas.

For phones support, I will limit my attention to things I'm interested in or use daily (what means AT phones, Meego and possibly Symbian). Others (especially S40 Nokia phones) can not expect much support from me.

And of course I still plan to maintain the projects themselves, Debian packages and packages in openSUSE Build Service.