Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Looks like glade-3 might be better. I just know that glade-2 has been a real PITA.

Yeah, when I go the web route it would all be open for others to download and run themselves. I might host a version myself, but only as a convenience to others.

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

There's a few tiny http servers out there for the Tablets, that might be a cool idea if the dialer can run on a local web server.

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Thanks, but no thanks. An application simple as this should not be dependent of a web server.
-ioan

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Ahh, but it already is... if grandcentral.com is down or unreachable this app is pointless.

Making some headway again; looks like the solution will be using a GTKNotebook to simplify this and make it do what I want. Each tab ( tabs will not be seen, they will be controlled via finger mashing friendly buttons ) will contain a different way of interacting with the dialer. One will be the keyapd, the other will be recent, one will be for login information, one for changing the callback settings, and one for voicemail ;-) ( maybe one day ). This will make it a nice, self-contained, one-window format.

So I'm kinda ripping this apart at the moment. I swear I'll get something uploaded soon* for everyone to play with.


* YMMV, Offer not valid in all 50 states, Toddler and wife have dibs on time, sleeping optional and may require debugging.

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Yea, I can't find the icon for .5, going to use .4 until a fix or new release is made.

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Brontide, while I appreciate the idea and effort you are contributing to this project, the whole beauty of this application was that it was a dead-simple, uncomplicated way to dial a phone number on the IT and have GrandCentral ring you back through Gizmo. The application worked for that purpose quite well. Granted, it benefited from the minor UI tweaks that z2n made, but otherwise it was pretty perfect from the start.

All I really want at this point is a working version of what z2n intended to release with version 0.5_1, including your bug fix for the concatenated numbers (great work on solving that, by the way).

This is really a case of K.I.S.S.

z2n, do you have the original 0.5 code that you can update with the bugfix and re- post?

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

You are free to pull the working py and glade files from svn, but I assure you that you are making assumptions about what I'm doing. Right now I'm just trying to get the code into a more maintainable state. I think z2n would agree that it was a hack to begin with and that it could use some TLC.

For now, use what's in the SVN... but I still need another day or two to finish up my overhaul of the .glade UI files. The changes should make it easier to maintain and add new features incrementally.

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

OK, I may have written prematurely, and I apologize if I sounded ungrateful. Both you and z2n have made a great contribution to making the N8x0 an even more useful device for a lot of people. The truth of the matter is that I've only used the GC app once for a real call. I wrote about it here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...3&postcount=58

But it is one of those things that I like knowing is available and working when I need it. (About to become a dad, so making sure I'm contactable is high priority right now)

Re: Grandcentral Dialer Application
 

Congratulations! #2 is on the way at our household.

I'm sorry about the furbar with 0.5, but I don't even know where to start for building the official deb file. I know you can have it working by installing the previous version and then dropping in the two files ( gc_dialer.py / gc_dialer.glade ) from the svn. I'll beg z2n to rebuild the current svn and post it as well.

I should have something useful soon (tm). Slightly improved layout, 7 digit dialing to start... probably native login, fullscreen, and on-the-fly callback number changing support.

Right now most of my time is being consumed fighting with the GTK tools and not the more interesting backend stuff. If anyone has a tutorial on laying out with glade so dialogs don't look like *** I would appreciate it.

A rebuild of the current svn should would be nice to see. For now I have gone back to release 0.4 but I had to make dir /usr/local/bin before it would install. Release 0.5 deleted it!