SkipStone browser for Kindle Touch - Page 14

icantbebothered · 06-23-2013, 03:43 AM

Also.

Just posting to draw attention back to this.

onlyra · 07-08-2013, 04:53 PM

Has anyone spoken to "baf" lately? Is he ok?
I tried to email him using the form on his website but when I enter the captcha and click "I'm a human" button I get "An error occurred: Input error: k: Required field must not be blank".
I realy love his work and I would like him to continue it.

icantbebothered · 07-09-2013, 11:44 AM

He said earlier skipstone wasn' the only thing on his TODO list...

Maybe he's porting OpenOffice.

knc1 · 07-09-2013, 11:52 AM

busy, busy, busy:
http://www.fabiszewski.net/

baf · 07-11-2013, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by onlyra

Has anyone spoken to "baf" lately? Is he ok?
I tried to email him using the form on his website but when I enter the captcha and click "I'm a human" button I get "An error occurred: Input error: k: Required field must not be blank".
I realy love his work and I would like him to continue it.

Hi!

Thanks for encouragement!

I am fine. I still look into this forum from time to time, waiting for some new inspirations.
I must admit I lost interest in some of my projects like skipstone or gnash. It was a lot of fun to port it to Kindle, but then I realized that in fact I don't need such apps on an e-book reader. And maintaining someone else's code is difficult and not so much interesting

It still might happen that I will resume these works some day, when I have more time.

Anyway I heard it is time for developer's summer holidays.

Best greetings to all!

Regarding captcha on my page, it might have been a temporary problem with reCaptcha engine which is independent of my site. Try again if you want to contact me.

knc1 · 07-11-2013, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

It still might happen that I will resume these works some day, when I have more time.

Anyway I heard it is time for developer's summer holidays.

Best greetings to all!

Glad to know you are still tracking the happenings in the Kindle world.

Hope you got a laugh out of the "Developer Summer Holiday Road Trip" video clip.

baf · 07-11-2013, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Hope you got a laugh out of the "Developer Summer Holiday Road Trip" video clip.

Of course I didn't miss that, or your new avatar

knc1 · 07-11-2013, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

Of course I didn't miss that, or your new avatar

Yeah, no summer holiday for me. Maybe next time.

onlyra · 07-20-2013, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

Hi!

I must admit I lost interest in some of my projects like skipstone or gnash. It was a lot of fun to port it to Kindle, but then I realized that in fact I don't need such apps on an e-book reader.

Well I am using it to read news on my kindle touch, compared to kindle's browser, skipstone, with a few glitches(the stubborn build-in keyboard), works very good. It does have tabs and doesn't crash that much. So I wish you to have more time

Thanks

icantbebothered · 07-24-2013, 03:06 AM

And I have a bug

Once upon a time, skipstone was working just fine. But when I installed Debian (although I don't see how that could make a difference) I tried to download a zip with skipstone and it killed the framewok instead. I've replaced the binaries, and tried downloading from many different websites, but the problem remains.

knc1 · 07-24-2013, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by icantbebothered

And I have a bug

Once upon a time, skipstone was working just fine. But when I installed Debian (although I don't see how that could make a difference) I tried to download a zip with skipstone and it killed the framewok instead. I've replaced the binaries, and tried downloading from many different websites, but the problem remains.

Did the installation process you followed for Debian modify your .bashrc or .profile files?
That might be the connection between seemingly different things.

icantbebothered · 07-25-2013, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Did the installation process you followed for Debian modify your .bashrc or .profile files?
That might be the connection between seemingly different things.

No. I just mounted twobob's image on mnt/debian and fiddled with the shell scripts to make them, erm, work.

EDIT: If it helps to know, downloading with elinks and the stock browser works.

icantbebothered · 07-25-2013, 06:35 AM

Got it! I deleted /skipstone/settings/.skiptone/skipdownload_running and skipdownload_url. Now it works fine. Skipdownload must have been stuck on a download so it crashed whenever skipstone tried to run it.

knc1 · 07-25-2013, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by icantbebothered

Got it! I deleted /skipstone/settings/.skiptone/skipdownload_running and skipdownload_url. Now it works fine. Skipdownload must have been stuck on a download so it crashed whenever skipstone tried to run it.

Sounds reasonable.

Machine was saying: "Hey, boss, I failed and you told me to keep on trying (and failing)". Dumb machine.

twobob · 10-22-2013, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

Looks nice. I don't have time to play with it now. Maybe someone else?

root@dev:/usr/local/src/luakit-2012.03.25# BUILD=arm-linux-gnueabi HOST=arm-linux-gnueabi PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH make USE_UNIQUE=0 V=1

Quote:

luakit build options:
CC = cc
LUA_PKG_NAME = lua5.1
CFLAGS = -mthumb -std=gnu99 -O2 -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabi/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libsoup-2.4 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/lua5.1 -I/usr/include/webkitgtk-1.0 -I./ -mfloat-abi=soft -fno-stack-protector -ffast-math -march=armv7 -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CPPFLAGS = -DVERSION="a9de581" -DDEVELOPMENT_PATHS
LDFLAGS = -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lwebkitgtk-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lsoup-2.4 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -ljavascriptcoregtk-1.0 -lglib-2.0 -lsqlite3 -llua5.1 -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-rpath,/mnt/us/extensions/luakit/usr/lib -static-libstdc++
INSTALLDIR = /mnt/us/extensions/luakit/usr
MANPREFIX = /mnt/us/extensions/luakit/usr/share/man
DOCDIR = /mnt/us/extensions/luakit/usr/share/luakit/docs

better choice of options...

and fixed re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636817
(missing dependency)

I should tidy that up at some point and ship it.

07-08-2013, 04:53 PM	#197
onlyra Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: KT, KPW3	where is baf? Has anyone spoken to "baf" lately? Is he ok? I tried to email him using the form on his website but when I enter the captcha and click "I'm a human" button I get "An error occurred: Input error: k: Required field must not be blank". I realy love his work and I would like him to continue it.

07-09-2013, 11:44 AM	#198
icantbebothered Penguin Posts: 1,017 Karma: 4742434 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch 5.3.2.1	He said earlier skipstone wasn' the only thing on his TODO list... Maybe he's porting OpenOffice. Last edited by icantbebothered; 07-09-2013 at 11:44 AM. Reason: typo

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06-23-2013, 03:43 AM	#196
icantbebothered Penguin Posts: 1,017 Karma: 4742434 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch 5.3.2.1	Also. Just posting to draw attention back to this.

07-09-2013, 11:52 AM	#199
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	busy, busy, busy: http://www.fabiszewski.net/

07-24-2013, 03:06 AM	#205
icantbebothered Penguin Posts: 1,017 Karma: 4742434 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch 5.3.2.1	And I have a bug Once upon a time, skipstone was working just fine. But when I installed Debian (although I don't see how that could make a difference) I tried to download a zip with skipstone and it killed the framewok instead. I've replaced the binaries, and tried downloading from many different websites, but the problem remains.

07-25-2013, 06:35 AM	#208
icantbebothered Penguin Posts: 1,017 Karma: 4742434 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch 5.3.2.1	Got it! I deleted /skipstone/settings/.skiptone/skipdownload_running and skipdownload_url. Now it works fine. Skipdownload must have been stuck on a download so it crashed whenever skipstone tried to run it.