Re: Navit on N900
 

just installed navit for 3d's shake and found this helpful post
navit wiki seems pretty mess ed up
i think i somewhere saw qt and qml qui is it ?

Re: Navit on N900
 

yes, there is a qml gui but the devs seems to stop the support or is buggy. anyway you can find and try the qt and qml packages from bokomoko.

check also http://wiki.test.navit-project.org/index.php/Gui_QML

and try with <gui type="qml" enabled="yes" source="/opt/navit/share/navit/skins" icon_src="/opt/navit/share/navit/xpm/" />

Re: Navit on N900
 

I just find it interesting that back in 2010, when I did a review of existing open source navigation apps before starting to work on modRana, the Navit configuration files were a total mess and the default configuration was unusable (blank map).

Sure, after manually fiddling with the humongous XML configuration file for long enough you could usually make it display something on the screen.

I would really not expect back then the situation to stay the same 5 years later. :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

very true sir
i am wondering why navit ships so naked ?

Re: Navit on N900
 

The navit dev team is very aware of that UX is currently bad while the engine is pretty ok. The situation is difficult as there are currently just 2..3 persons with limited amount of time and the code is pretty legacy and complex.
Everybody is welcome to contribute code, support, docs, ....

Thoughts about simplifing the XML https://forum.navit-project.org/view...php?f=19&t=400

Re: Navit on N900
 

Well, only the default gui sucks, I think that are lots of guis around the net thta work quite well - and the ability to set the gui exactly like it is good. I for one think that navit looks much better than anything [graphically] based on Google maps.

In a way, this could be a distribution job to provide a sane configuration, all that is needed (the include mechanism) is pretty much in place judging from my experience and the thread linked.

Re: Navit on N900
 

I have built navit 6084 locally, and is in dropbox

for a successfull build i had to remove the mtb-track.patch in debian/patches folder because give error

waiting for somebody to fix this

Re: Navit on N900
 

Well, I tar -xzf-ed this file from /home/user directory, and Navit still does not display icons... Going to check if my Navit is up-to-date...

Thank you,
Best wishes.

[Edit]
Yes, Navit 0.5.0
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Re: Navit on N900
 

sorry i just realize now you are talking about gtk-gui, me i'm using internal-gui with gtk-drawing-area and buttons show the images (so maybe is the best solution right now, since qml and gtk-gui are buggy at the moment)

Re: Navit on N900
 

Thank you!

Can you tell me why navit complains about "distance_metric=50" in announcements in navit.xml? I tried changing them to "distance=100", or "metric_distance=250" - still same 270 errors about attributes-something. Not sure if it means anything or not, but 270 errors do not sound good.

And, is there an official github for gtk-gui of Navit? I would rather debug it, if I can - and when it's debugged, probably create a hildon-gui, with more finger-friendly menus and buttons.

Best wishes.