OpenMoko update

I haven't post for a long time, it is time to give some update about my work at openmoko.

The last few weeks the full freesmartphone team was here in Taipei, so that we could work full time on the openmoko d-bus system interface (the so called framework).

Many changes have been done recently, I will try to update the wiki to let people that are not subscribed to the mailing list be aware of the status of the project.
To recall, the framework provides a d-bus API (the org.freesmartphone API) for applications running on the neo. The API covers usual phone functionalities (GSM, SIM, PIM, etc).

I didn't work at all on my personal project tichy, except yesterday when I stared to write a few applications that I intend to use to learn Chinese :
* A learning game application that implements the Leitner System to optimize the memorization of new words.
* An English to Chinese dictionary.
* A now working audio files player.

I think there is a interesting potential for the neo to be a learning platform.

Introducing tichy

The last few weeks I have been working on a python applets manager for OpenMoko cell phone.

The idea is to be able to very easily develop applications in python. Each application can define a set of services and request for a given services. So if for example I write a text editor, other applications that need a text text editor will be able to use it, even if they don't know about this particular text editor.

The code can be downloaded from the subversion server :

svn checkout svn://svn.projects.openmoko.org/svnroot/tichy

It can work directly on a desktop computer, or on the open moko (See the README file for more informations)

It uses Mickey freesmartphone Framework

Here are some screen shots :