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

[Philippe De Swert]

Hi Jason,

> I just recently purchased a Nokia N800 Internet tablet and installed some of
> the GPE applications on top of my OS2008 (Maemo 4.0) install.  I feel
> compelled to say that this software is great!  It helps turn an otherwise
> non-PDA device into a suitable replacement for my Palm Tungsten T3.  I'd
> like to thank you guys for all of the work that you do to make great
> software like this happen.

Great to hear. I hope you will enjoy owning it.

> A little about myself... I have an MS is computer science from Clarkson
> University and I'm a big time Linux fan!!  I'm proficient in C, in fact,
> it's my favorite language.  I've played around with GTK before but I am
> definitely still a beginner in this area.

Well you will be able to pick it up quite easily. It is not so difficult and
the GTK manuals are quite good. An handy tool is also devhelp with the GTK/GDK
and Glib references.

> 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:
> 
> 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

Quite ambitous to start with, but maybe that is good :)
 
> 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.

The anonymous http has worked for me without issues in the past. Did you
manage to get the sources by now? Otherwise we can always try to make a
tarball for you. Also a number of GPE apps are also available in debian/ubuntu
if you would like to play with them.

So please send us patches etc, we will try to commit them asap and if needed
and useful we will probably give you access to the svn. 

Also drop by in the #gpe-project irc channel on freenode if you can. It is a
bit quiet there atm, but at reasonable EU times (as most active devs live in
Europe atm) there probably will be somebody to answer you.

Cheers,

Philippe