Posted On: Tue 01 May 2012
I have been using my laptop for a while now for development on Empathy. Since my laptop is running Fedora 16, there is less libraries that need compiling in order to run the latest git empathy. But like any project dependencies are updated on occasion. It just so happens that the GTK+ dependency for Emapthy got updated fairly recently, so when I pulled the latest code, my GTK+ library needed recompiling. Eh, didn't seem like a big deal, compiled fine 1 minor version ago, so I figured it would be ...
Posted On: Mon 23 April 2012
So, now that I have been hacking away, here is what I am working on. The first aspect of setting up a Sugar App is parsing some command line arguments. The arguments help configure the app so that the Sugar Framework can properly interface between the App and the X server. Or something like that. These arguments are: ` -b, --bundle-id Identifier of the activity bundle. Must be made available as window property. -a, --activity-id Unique identifier of the activity instance. Must be made av ...
Posted On: Mon 16 April 2012
Posted On: Wed 04 April 2012
Looks like the best course of action is to add support to Empathy or Sugar to properly interface a video chat app into sugar. How exactly this will be done is not completely clear to me yet but here are the possibilities I have seen. # Modify And Add To The Empathy Code Base Sugar communicates with its activities via DBus. DBus is an IPC mechanism which allows the SUgar shell to pass commands via remote method calls to a running application. In order to make Empathy a proper sugar activity, i ...
Posted On: Sat 24 March 2012
Posted On: Fri 16 March 2012
Posted On: Fri 16 March 2012
Finally... Its spring quarter and I have some time to get a native video chat app running on an XO. There is a lot of talk about the OVC application created by a couple of RIT students: http://foss.rit.edu/projects/ovc. While they work on the python implementation, I am going to detail my progress towards building a native C application. To start of with, here is how I set up my development environment for writing/compiling XO code. I don't know if there are ...