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	Nathraiben	2010-07-13 , 21:30
	Posts: 267 \| Thanked: 408 times \| Joined on May 2010 @ Austria	#1229

Originally Posted by monster

I get it. I wanted to choose a "feminine" avatar, just for visibility - so that people just don't assume that internet is all male -

Hehe, being of the "gender doesn't matter" faction, I usually don't care whether people think we're not out there. But I found that most of them realise it once I get one of my *****y fits...

but I think I have to get more Karma before being allowed avatar and/or signature with my posts.

Don't you get the links in your control panel under "Settings & Options"? If not, I'm sure it's not related to the number of thanks, but maybe you just need 10 posts or something like that?

I'm rather sure I uploaded my avatar pretty soon after joining, so whatever the restriction is it should be easy to go past it.

Thank you! My first "hack" was to import my old WIndows Mobile contacts by copying a script from the forum and putting it on my n900, and even though I was following instructions it feels nice to be in the terminal.

I hear you! Apart from the obvious advantage of being able to change almost everything to your liking, it's this feeling of "being in control" of that little thing in your pocket that makes it such a great experience.

But where to start with coding? Does everybody need C++? Or is it OK to dive into this Qt thing? I guess there's a lot of guides on the netz... It'll have to be next month, when my brain has cooled down a bit.

Well, it depends. You can either go with Qt (which sadly requires C++, but at least takes away some of it's annoyances) or with PyQt, which would offer they same functionality using Python. Or of course the GTK bindings of either language.

If you want to be "future prove", rather grasp the nettle and go with Qt and C++. It's quite amazing how easy it is do develop any N900 application from within the Qt SDK that will then work on Symbian3 phones (or your desktop) as well. And of course on MeeGo, once it's out.

Anyways, I'm enjoying being able to surf anytime, and my RSS feed which encouraged me to find interesting chinese blogs. I'm a China buff.

XO

Hehe, if I wasn't seriously lacking the language skills I guess I'd do the same with Korea and Japan.

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