Home The N9 week: Hack-A-N9, GotoVienna, Camera, gPodder

The N9 week: Hack-A-N9, GotoVienna, Camera, gPodder

 
While the first week back in Vienna after the holidays was sad for a Maemoista walking around in the city (aka Amazing (sic) Everyday), there was also enough time to release gPodder 3.0.3 (already in AFM – thanks, testers!), catch up with local Maoists at the Hack-A-N9 and work on go to Vienna, the Camera hack and even more post-3.0.3 gPodder goodness. But one after the other..
gotoVienna is a public transport live ticker app by kelvan. In the days after meeting at the Hack-A-N9, we implemented a nice line number input UI that makes it easy to quickly get live information for a given line – the code is in Git, and as a side-product, merlin1991 has implemented a stdeb/distutils extension to inject an Aegis manifest and create the digsigsums file – check it out if you want to build Python packages for Harmattan without Scratchbox/the SDK.
Next up is the Camerra hack, a quick’n’dirty “app” that monitors the Volume+ hardware button and (when the Camera UI is in the foreground) simulates a click on the shutter button, effectively making the Volume+ work as a shutter button. Ideal for all your self-portraying needs! It’s called a hack, because it uses the likes of xprop and xresponse directly – a “proper” implementation would use QmSystem, XTest and Xlib from C/C++, just in case someone feels like spending time on rewriting something that Works For Me 😉 There’s a support thread on t.m.c, the Python and PySide powered code is available on Github, and the package is available on the website and (hopefully soon) also on Apps For MeeGo.
As for the post-3.0.3 gPodder goodness: Episode list filters (bug 1527) are currently being developed, a first patch is already written, and screenshot 1 and screenshot 2 show you how it currently looks. Don’t forget to report any bugs and feature requests over at bugs.gpodder.org – don’t keep them for yourself! :p
And now for the next two weeks for something completely different (i.e. Uni semester wrap-ups, exams, lab interviews and lab exercises).. 😉 Enjoy the newly released stuff!
 
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