2007/2/12, Ryan Kline <<a href="mailto:radryan214@gmail.com">radryan214@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I would really like to contribute to OpenMoko by writing some</blockquote><div><br>Hi Ryan! Thank you for your eagerness to help OpenMoko! As you may know already Neo1973 is a phone with Linux and X-Window (GUI applications are written in GTK+ toolkit). So basicaly all rules of making programs for Linux and GTK+ will apply to Neo1973. There are, of course some hardware limitations (screen size, memory, processor, etc). I suggest you try googling for "linux programming howto", "gtk+ howto" etc. This would be the good point to start.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What I would like to write:<br> -Graphically cool looking programs like video ringtones that have
<br>some kind of really cool animation that plays when you get a call.</blockquote><div><br>"video ringtones" are not programs - they are just video animations. You can do them in graphic programs.<br> </div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -Tweaks to the UI to make it look really cool</blockquote><div><br><br>This is not trivial (on applications level) but if you focus on graphic applications (Photoshop, Gimp, 3D Studio Max, Blender) you may do this by contributing themes, backgrounds etc.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -A program that allows you to use MP3s as ringtones<br></blockquote></div>
<br>I am sure that somebody with more experience will do this or it is already implemented ;) Maybe focus at creating MP3 ringtones?<br><br>Writing app that plays mp3 is actually good excersise (if you use specialized library to play mp3) and you may find plethora of examples of such application.
<br><br><br>Good luck!<br><br>cayco<br>