Re: Sounds, Gallery, and Contacts

X is a network transparent window system.

You can run any GPE application across the network to a X server on
your desktop (and there are X servers not only for Linux, but for UNIX,
Mac, and even Windoze).

So you can use the apps on your desktop as well as your handheld.

And courtesy of pb and mallum's wonderful work, you can "teleport" running
GPE apps to such a display, not just start them up from scratch...
                        - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys@hp.com
> Sender: gpe-bounces@handhelds.org
> From: "Jason KRISCH" <jasonk@ali-inc.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:07:15 -0500
> To: <gpe@handhelds.org>
> Subject: Re: [Gpe] Sounds, Gallery, and Contacts
> -----
> That worked great for Image Gallery!  Thanks a lot! 
> 
> As for the Contacts, is there any easier way to enter a lot of them -
> i.e. from a front end of some sort via a desktop PC? I am just trying to
> avoid having to enter over 100 of them manually on the iPAQ - that could
> take quite a long time and I have a lot of notes associated with them
> and would like to be able to copy / paste.
> 
> I am really enjoying Linux on my iPAQ - its giving the thing a whole
> new life!
> 
> Jed
> 
> >>> Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> 03/11/03 08:56AM >>>
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 13:37, Jason KRISCH wrote:
> > I have an iPAQ 3600 with GPE2-v0.7-Pre4 installed.  Everything
> > installed fine and works great with the exception of sound and image
> > gallery.  gpe-nmf "plays" an mp3, but I hear nothing.  Gallery will
> > display .png images, but not .jpgs.  Any ideas?
> 
> The gallery problem is caused by a packaging bug with GTK.  To work
> around it, do:
> 
> # ipkg install gdk-pixbuf2-loader-jpeg
> # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> 
> The NMF problem is a bit more of a mystery.  Others have reported it
> also, but I don't yet know the cause.
> 
> > And lastly (and I suppose I may get flamed for this one - but I
> can't
> > find any info anywhere) I have been running PPC for over a year now
> and
> > have a rather large Contacts db in PPC / Outlook that I use everyday.
> 
> > Is there any way to import this into GPE-contacts?
> 
> Not right now, but within the next week or so we will probably have a
> mechanism for importing from vCard format.  So, if you can persuade
> your
> Outlook to export in that form, you should be all set.
> 
> p.
> 
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