Re: BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

:D

Here is one bootimation for you Qole:

Re: BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Not as far as I know. It's for suggesting features (or apps) that either Nokia developers or community developers could choose to implement. Brainstorm is hosted on maemo.org (the community) not nokia.com, after all.

Re: Set boot splashscreen...
 

Although technically the N900/Maemo 5 does support multiple boot animation videos which are played one after another, how many users will really need or want to do that?

If the app uses multiple selection by default, you might confuse the Average Joe user, as they would likely expect the app to work with single selection (as with changing theme etc.). In other words, they would expect selecting a new animation would deselect the previous animation. Having to manually deselect the old animation as well as selecting the new one would be less slick than it could be, and if they neglected to do that and rebooted they would see two videos (both the previously selected one and the newly selected one) played one after the other, and be confused.

If people really want multiple videos to be played, then maybe have it as an advanced option...?

Re: Set boot splashscreen...
 

I see you concern but hopefully these multiple choices dialogboxes is easy to understand so that a mistake like that won't happen. Multiple choices is maybe abit "too much" for a feature like this..? if I understand it right you can add a normal images files too.. then maybe someone would liek to add a few.

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

I think it's a both a bit too much in general, plus a source of potential confusion, although I haven't used an N900 yet to see exactly how multi-choice things work.

If you add a few image files does it just quickly flick through them, or can the user set a time for how long to pause on each image? In any case, it doesn't sound terribly useful. As with videos, I can see the value in picking a single image for boot up, but not several.

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

I finally got gio file listing working with the applet (witch ended up taking me a week to accomplish - sorry :p) - witch means that i can finally get a list of video files to display on the selection as items :D

http://b-man.xceleo.org/images/fremantle/m5shot11.png
http://b-man.xceleo.org/images/fremantle/m5shot10.png
http://b-man.xceleo.org/images/fremantle/m5shot12.png

I´m still working on getting it to filter out anything thats not a supported format and i had to temporarily remove thumbnail support until i get gio refined, witch should be done soon :)

next step: get it to save and write to the config file :)

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Hey b-man,

Did you stop this or are you just busy with other stuff?

There some people asking questions on how change boot vid and showing them this app would be great. :-)

cheers

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

does this project still on ??
would love to have it done .. great idea

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Yeah Please, I think this idea is great

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

everyone thinks its a great idea lol

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Regulators! (isnt that from young guns movie?) ;-) .. what is a regulator really? (me bad english).

I meant

Moderators! This is actually [Under consideration] status now. Would you guys be so kind and edit the topic?

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Yes this is a wonderful idea! please dont give up!! >_<

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

dead or alive?

Re: [Sandbox] BRAINSTORM: Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

bump
any developer want to pick up where b-man left?

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

I have added and some more features in 3rd Solution

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

What's this applet looking like now?

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Since someone asked nicely (don't get used to it), in a few hours I wrote a bootscreen manager, will upload a alpha version tonight or tomorrow to Extras-devel, don't expect too much for now :).

Current features:

Support for multiple videos;
Add/remove videos files - Copy/remove them to/from /opt, since from /mydocs doesn't work;
Random video on boot;
Order Selection;

To-do:

Turn the app in an control panel applet (not sure if is possible atm using Qt);

Can I use the icon posted here ? I'll give credits if the autor sends me his name :)

Suggestions welcome.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/...70105ae7_o.png

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/...cf65ff71_o.png

Re: Set boot splashscreen...
 

Just give me a option to turn the video off with a checkbox and I`m happy

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

VDVsx, great news indeed...

b66m just fixed a random shuffle mode....

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=35

Looking forward to the release

Wants:

An sound boost would br really handy 4 me...

Re: Set boot splashscreen...
 

Lol, you can deselect the videos and you are done ;)

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

That's a bit hackish and dangerous for 'Linux noobs' ;), for that reason I decide to write a end users app.

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

*cries*

But to answer your question: yes.
There are two ways:
* Do what the screen calibration applet does, and use an applet that launches a program (http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle...r/src/launch.c).
* Or, code your program into an applet directly. The entry point for applets is the "execute" function and libosso doesn't force you to depend on GTK. But you probably will want to get the XID of the Control Panel (available from the user_data pointer) so that you can make your window transient to the Control Panel window. Then again, you don't seem to be displaying a dialog as your "main window" so I guess it's up to you.

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Well I have learned a lot today but would prefer installing an app as well!
;)

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

anything in extreas - dev at the moment?

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Not yet, lets see if I've a spare hour to finish it today, only need to make the package and perhaps turn it into a control panel applet.

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

If you succeed in creating a control panel applet in Qt, I will be very interested! :)

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

I like control panel applet option as well

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Eagerly awaiting for its arrival in application manager:D

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

bootscreen 0.1 is available in Extras-devel.

Features:

Multiples videos on boot;
Random video on boot;

Don't expect fancy graphics :). anyone willing to contribute with a app icon please step in.

Didn't had time to look at the control panel applet code, so is a standalone app for now.

Post here any problems/bug/suggestions.

Note: The 'boot player' suffers hiccups with some video encodings and also if you add more than 3 consecutive videos(a bit insane), but these aren't my fault :D

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

First of all good work with the app. Really appreciate it.

I seem to run into the exact problem detailed in the application detail - Conflicting packages.

Is there any way around it VDVsx?

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

It works XD THANKS
only problem I had was the "Random" option
when i click that, it says "Random:disabled"
but selecting multiple boot works, so =)
Great work!

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Cant wait to try this out.... or should wait since I'm a bit of a "linux noob"?

Anything I should be worried of?
:confused:

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

nice work! :)

wish i could code GUIs too. ^^

as i can see you are using the current time as qrand()-seed... looks like we had the same idea xD

i haven't the time to look at all your files... but is the random file only set when the user opens your app and clicks on the button or is it set automatically each time the phone starts up/ shuts down?
(if not that would be a suggestion worth implementing ^^)

also i don't know if your program shows the random selection to the user after clicking on the button but if it does so then the surprise wouldn't be there on startup (because the user already knows which video will show up... so i would like the "kinder surprise"-style more - not knowing what you'll get *g*)

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

THanks for the bootscreen app.
Will test it VDVsx

Suggestion:

1. Add the option to look in /opt/media
2. If possible add sound boost

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

random option is confirmed to work..
haven't seen all of my 7 videos in there but they switch.
i notived a 0.conf file is being made every single boot.

Problem is that with random option you have 2 single select all the files.
Maybe add the option 'content of folder add'?

Multiple option isn't working 4 me at all.
If I select 2 videos and boot nothing happens??

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

i cant install bootscreen 0.1 it says im missing libqt4-maemo5-maemo5 where can i get it?

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

My experience:

1) Downloaded a boot video to Downloads.
2) Added it in BootScreen
3) Selected only that video and moved it up as first
4) Closed BootScreen and booted
5) No bootvideo shown
6) Going to BootScreen and the selected video not shown on the list
7) Trying to add again gives error: "Error: the file already exists!"

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Maybe boost this one up in the future with multiple options to mod stuff in menu and boot...

1. SplashScreens altering
2. LockScreen altering
3. Sounds altering

etc etc.

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

You need last Qt packages, probably you installed them via apt-get so they aren't updating.

"apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-maemo5" as root should fix that.

Re: [Under consideration] Set bootscreen video... Easier.
 

Yes, when you click random the video selection is disabled, so a random video will be played at boot, that's the intended behaviour.