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2011-11-05 , 11:53
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Originally Posted by Kung Foo View Post
Working with CacheMe as a baseline is not a valid option either since it is not open source and you are violating the rights of its owner. I've asked Till to update the licence of CacheMe QML port to be open source but he has not replied to me yet. He says only the plugins are under GPL and the main program "does not have a licence".
I think there might be a misunderstanding about CacheMe.
CacheMe is open source, since its code is published under http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...heme/0.8.10-1/ as well as on other places linked on http://www.harbaum.org/till/cacheme/. And there he now recently also published the code of the QML version.

I agree that he seemed not state which licence he uses, how ever the last days I was in contact with Till and he said its ok to publish my Harmattan port on my website.


Originally Posted by Kung Foo View Post
Also we do have our own design goals that do not match CacheMe's design. So I suggest we continue chatting about how to join forces. Anyone who knows how to code & cache is welcome at this point to join us.
Its great that you want to invest your time for a new app.
How ever if I look into the open source world, I see that many project fail since everybody wants to write his own app instead of working together on the same project. For me ATM I dont have the time to invest a lot of time. Because of that I decided to modify the existing QT CacheMe to get it a "bit more" usable on Harmattan. As I figured out its actually much easier than expected to make it look nice it with QT stylesheets.

Just for your understanding:
I am the author of SleepAnalyser, a Python/QT app.
I invested quite some time to port it to QML. How ever I realised that it costs a lot of time and I am currently not willing to invest that much time for that.
And as I now realised that QT applications actually can be modified to look Harmattan-ish, I might also try and go this way.
IMHO its better to have an ugly but working application than nothing at all!
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CacheMe 4 the N9, a geocaching client / MiniBible, a bible viewer / TheWord brings daily bible verses onto your phone / BatteryGraph to monitor the battery drainage / doublepress2unlock to unlock your phone with a double press onto the power button / GPRS Data Usage to monitor your GPRS data usage /
and more...

On N900 check out this: SleepAnalyser to analyse your sleep movements / PasswordMaker a for a password generator
 

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