Preliminary Evince package for Nokia 770 available

Finally it is done. You can download it here (I would be glad if someone could mirror it). Following there are some pictures of evince in action.







It was a hard work to make the package work with application installer, so i'd like to thank very much Marc Maurer (uwog) and Tomas Frydrych (tf) from Abiword community who helped me a lot.

Known Problems:
* The application does not respond to 770 special buttons, like Fullscreen, Zoom In and Zoom out.
* Find toolbar does not work.
* Include some pixmaps for actions like fullscreen and rotate right/left.

I hope to have these problems solved soon, and then we will have the final package available.

UPDATE 1: Emmanuel Pacuad has disponibilized a mirror for the package.

UPDATE 2: Another mirror for the package by Gustavo Barbieri.

Gnumeric Spreadsheet has Maemo support

Last Friday, November 11th, i have opened a enhancement bug in gnome bugzilla with the patch containing all the modifications necessary to make Gnumeric run on Maemo platform. Today, Monday November 14th, i received the notification that the patch was accepted and now the code is part of Gnumeric mainstream (see the release notes). Thanks to all gnumeric community and Jody Goldberg that commited the patch and helped me a lot to solve the problems i have faced.

For now on, to compile Gnumeric on Maemo platform, just download the source code (at this moment, the last stable version is 1.6.1) and configure it with --enable-hildon option.

If everithing goes fine, by the end of this week we may have the debian packages available to install in the Nokia 770. w00t!

Now, some pics for screenshot lovers. ;)

To which Middle Earth Race do you Belong?

Rohirrim


To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

Evince Patch to Maemo Platform

Things are going quite good here. Today morning i have sent an email to evince mail list containing the patch and the instructions to make evince run on maemo platform. There are a couple of minor issues to be fixed, but i hope the code will be commited soon.

Some screenshots of Evince In Maemo

Well, i have finished the tests on the maemo SDK 1.1 and reassumed the port of Evince CVS version to Maemo platform. Here are some screenshots of the results.








I am now working on the patch to make it look like a bit better, so i will send it to evince mail list. I will also inspect the possibility to have some new stock icons, for rotate right/left, fullscreen and presentation modes.

Back to normal work

Last two weeks i was away from my work on Gnumeric and Evince, porting them to the maemo platform. I have been helping in the tests of the new version of Maemo SDK platform, that is about to be released (we are now in rc5). I will be back with good news about the ports soon.

Gnumeric Metadata Dialog

Yesterday i have commited some files in Gnumeric main CVS tree related to a project that i have been working in collaboration to the community, but in fact it is stopped due some priorities of our team here at INdT. The metadata dialog, that i hope will be incorporated soon by libgoffice is composed of four pages of information, as it can be seen in the next screenshots (click to enlarge the image), with a brief description of each page:



The first page contains the basic information about the file: name, location (uri), the date it was created, the date it was last modified and accessed, name and group of the owner and finally the permissions for the user, group and others.



Second page contains information about the document, such as title, subject, name of the author, manager and company, keywords and comments about it.



The properties page is where you can change some metadata information. The box will show all metadata properties and the user will be able to add, modify or delete each one of them.



Last page contains statistcs about the document. In the very specifc case of spreadsheets, the information shown is the number of sheets, cells and pages.

Ginástica Laboral

Desde a última segunda-feira começamos o programa de ginástica laboral aqui no INdT Recife. É interessante ver o quanto exercícios físicos básicos de alongamento podem ser penosos para nós que passamos a maior parte do dia sentados à frente do computador (na maioria das vezes com uma postura inadequada) e geralmente não fazemos nenhum tipo de atividade física.

Eu tenho um histórico de exercícios físicos razoável, com alguns anos de prática de musculação e artes marciais como Taekwondo e ainda assim sinto uma certa dificuldade para realizar alguns exercícios, mas dá pra ver que o resto do pessoal sente bem mais do que eu, e no final de apenas 10 minutos de exercícios é possível ver algumas pessoas bastante ofegantes. Mas a tendência é todos melhorarmos a cada dia.

Alguns links sobre ginástica laboral:
Cooperativa do Fitness
Saúde em Movimento

Gnome Developer

Hi all, this is my first post as a Gnome Developer. Last week i had requested a CVS account to the gnome.org repository and it was approved yesterday. Thanks to Jody Goldberg that sponsored me, now i have commit rights to the repository. I will try to help the better way and i hope not create a mess over there. :)

For this moment, i am colaborating with three projects, two of them are directly related to the Maemo platform that are the ports 2 applications (Gnumeric and Evince) to the environment that will be used by Nokia 770. The other is a dialog that is part of Gnumeric, and soon will be incorporated by libgoffice that shows all the document information. I will post some screenshots of the result here as i commit the code.

Fim de semana com visita

Neste final de semana recebi a primeira visita de um dos meus amigos aqui em Recife, minha grande amiga dos tempos de faculdade, a "japa girl" Silvia Okubo... Ela veio de Brasília na quinta-feira e foi embora hoje às 7 horas da "madrugada". Apesar de sua estadia breve e do fato do tempo estar meio fechado conseguimos curtir bastante, principalmente as praias em Porto de Galinhas e Boa Viagem e a noite de Recife.

Eu, Silvia e Birunko na Sexta feira à noite no UK Pub, um barzinho muito bacana.

Sabadão, passeio de jangada pelas piscinas naturais de Porto de Galinhas

Night de sábado, Eu, Luck, Paula, Silvia e Birunko na ACASA Pub.

Então é isso aí, espero que essa seja a primeira de muitas visitas da galera... Aos que quiserem vir, é só me avisar que serão recebidos da melhor forma possível! Um abraço.

English Day

Every thursday at INdT Office in Recife, we have to speak and write only in English. "Uncle Jack", that is some kind of Human Resources Chief from Nokia - Dallas selects one of our phones and calls us wherever he is to check if we are really speaking in English. The only word Jack knows in portuguese is "Caipirinha". :) This idea was suggested by our colleague Elvis and seems it will be adopted in all other INdT sites (Manaus and Brasília). This photo will be in our next newsletter and shows, from left to right, Rodrigo Novo, Me, Elvis, Marcelo Eduardo, and Jarmo Jarvenpaa, that is Finnish Nokia Supervisor. Jarmo does not speak in portuguese too.

I think this is a great opportunity to practice and learn more of this language worldwide spoken. I am trying to take the maximmum advantage on it. Finally, sorry for any mistake in this post.

A razão das coisas

Primeiramente algumas explicações...

1) Muitos devem estar se perguntando: Que raio de nome pode ser esse: "Etrunko"??? Essa história é meio longa e não acredito que todos iriam entender. Então, resumindo o máximo possível foi um apelido concedido a toda a galera que trabalhava no projeto de Porte dos Terminais do Banco do Brasil, com as exeções do Coxinha, Muskitu e Pato, já que os apelidos deles já vieram de fábrica. Além de mim, podemos citar outros "espécimes" desta raça, tais como Andrunko, Birunko, Cezunko, Laurunko, Jorjunko, e Rosfrunko, sendo que o Laurunko é o único exemplar da classe dos Politecs que não veio de mudança junto com a galera para Recife.

2) (void *) ??? Em outras palavras "Qualquer coisa".

Apesar de ainda não ter decidido o título do Blog, vou procurar postar sempre alguma coisa interessante que tenha acontecido comigo tanto profissional quanto pessoalmente, e sempre que possível com imagens para ilustrar tais fatos. Por enquanto é só. Um abração e espero que curtam!