Re: Future of Gammu

[Ruben De S. <rub...@te...>]

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On 30-01-12 20:36, Marcin Wiacek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was tracking Gammu project after my leave (it was done from
> personal and other reasons) and I have few comments. World is
> totally different than many years when I started Gammu. We're using
> smartphones, there are tablets, x86 is much faster, much more
> aggressive advertisements, etc. Etc. Additionally there are many
> changes in the quality of our life for example because of (good and
> very wrong and dangerous) law changes.
> 
> When we speak about smartphones - Nokia seems to be currently
> Microsoft department and Meego is discontinued (the only one chance
> for this software line is connected with Samsung/Intel - they will
> release maybe continuation of this system merged with Bada under
> name Tizen), Android is very poor is some areas (I have already
> various practical experiences with it) and we have additionally
> less or more closed Apple solutions, all other systems have
> very/too small amount of market.
> 
> Please note, that Linux distributions still don't have big luck on
> desktops (and I think, that various changes done for example in the
> Gnome/Ubuntu/KDE are blind way), we still don't have revolution in
> phones too (Android contains of course Linux kernel, but...it's not
> full system).
They're getting closer each day ;-) I know a lot of people using
Ubuntu. A LOT. My school will be migrating. A friend of mine hates to
start up his Windows(r) system. And he even doesn't know about the
filesystem structure in Linux (like: root = /).

The only reason Linux isn't used that much is because Microsoft has a
monopoly on it. And THAT's why nobody uses it. Not because it doesn't
work.

Android isn't a revolution. But's still one of the best OS's for
mobiles IMHO. (Samsung GIO wtf...)

> 
> Does anybody need Gammu now ? I have proposed some changes to avoid
> issues many years ago (Gammu+) and nobody was interested, I have
> done SyncML implementation for N82 and nobody was interested too.
> Additionally I have tried to create some import program on the
> Android over BT and it failed, I see that there are many solutions
> to do it now too.
> 
> Maybe it would be good to ask people subscribing this list - what
> do you require ? Maybe SMSD on the Android will be good idea ? What
> do you think ?

The thing I dream of is perfectly syncing my mobile (nokia) with
Thunderbird. Without google stuff and such.
The thing I dream of is easlily reading my SMS's on my desktop (Archlinux)
I want to be able to call people with my headset, to view my PIM data
in Wammu. That's what I'd like to do. Just like Nokia PC Suite, but
opensource, and for Linux/BSD.

BTW: why should we still port to Windows? They have their own solutions...

Ruben

> 
> BR
> 
> MW (mwiacek.com)
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ruben De Smet
> [mailto:rub...@te...] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012
> 8:32 PM To: gam...@li... Subject: Re: Future
> of Gammu
> 
> On 27-01-12 13:33, Michal  iha  wrote:
>> Hi all
> 
>> as you probably noticed that I'm not so active here as I used to
>> be, I've written down something about Gammu future on my blog:
> 
>> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2012/01/27/future-gammu/?utm_source=ml
>
>> 
Hi
> 
> Michal,
> 
> I'm interesting in forking and taking over the project management.
> Let me know if you're interested. I won't be extending gammu. I'll
> rather write bugfixes and work on wammu (perhaps a new version in
> C++).
> 
> Ruben De Smet Belgium
> 
> 
> 
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