Notices

I'll edit the path in my instructions for future reference.

Thats what I get for working from memory and not checking my installation.

@belanger.

My actual directory setup is slightly different.

Can you confirm that step 14 is correct as : cd mediabox

or should it be: cd mediabox/mediabox

It should be
cd mediabox/mediabox

Jay

By the way, gowen, thanks for those instructions; they're appreciated. I hadn't intended to try out the svn version before you posted them.

I didn't know about MediaBox before I got my n800, but if I were trying to talk someone into getting one, I'd show MediaBox to them first. Thanks Martin (pycage), for a truly fantastic job.

Edit: Found the solution here:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...0&postcount=46
look for the "panels" dialog. there, un-tick contacts, and select personal menu...

After installing Personal Menu, I am not able to enter the Applet Settings. I tried entering the path by opening Personal Menu via the control panel, but the Icon is not appearing.

Also, I cannot check the Personal Menu box in the Panels window.

N800/Diablo

The are two Personal-???? solutions.
1. Personal-Menu is a new menu in the left side bar that replaces an existing one - normally the contacts one as mfortner notes above. Make sure you reboot after installing.
2. Personal-Launcher adds a strip of icons to the desktop without having to replace anything and giving one-click access to your favourite apps. This is my prefered option.

After first testing the svn i have to say: great job martin!
good finger handling, smooth scrolling, streaming is fast (Twonky)

but two main problems:
1. 3rd party plugin by Hugo Baldasano seems to be buggy, no upnp client are detected (with mediastreamer no problems)
2. it´s not very convenient scrolling a folder containing hundreds of subfolders (e.g. artists beginning with "p"), is it possible to thicken the scroll bar (for finger handling even thicker than in mediastreamer!) for faster search option, or linking with keybord and explicit search function?
by the way what is the search window for appearing at the top, the keybord isnt working (future option?!)

really looking forward future versions

mackaroni

Thanks for feedback!

Hugo's plugin detects UPnP-enabled light bulbs. I tried it with gupnp-network-light (which simulates such a light bulb) and it worked. But as I'm not into UPnP light bulbs, I cannot say more. You should ask Hugo.

If you have hundreds of subfolders, you can start typing some characters of the name of an item and MediaBox will jump there. But since the 770 and N800 both don't have a keyboard (Bluetooth keyboards would work, though), there is this search box that appears in the title bar. And you're right, the search box isn't working properly yet. There's still work to do.

As of now, the scrollbar itself isn't movable by the user. I have thought of a thick scrollbar myself, but somehow it would eat a lot of screen estate. I'm still looking for a good solution, because this would really greatly enhance scrolling through hundreds/thousands of files.

Agreed, a thick scrollbar is a fugly hack to work around the issue; not a solution in and of itself. It might be worth waiting to see if we get enough detail about Fremantle's implementation of it at the summit, and - if it's sensible - moving in a similar direction?

Is the SVN capable of playing video other than .flv files? The MP4 files visible and playable in the other build of Mediabox are not appearing in the SVN.

EDIT (The files WERE, but are no longer visible in the other version)