On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05:55PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Diego_Fern=E1ndez_Dur=E1n_ wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry, a week of sinusitis[1] is the cause of this crazy idea. > > What do you think about a little app that works as dead man's switch[2] > (DMS since now) in the FR? It can have the following features: > > - Trigger an alarm if you don't touch the screen before the countdown > ends. Countdown can restart on touch. > - Alarm can trigger different actions: > * Call a number (112, 911, mum :) ) > * Ring/Vibrate > * Execute a command > - Use a voice synthesizer (festival) to talk and give GPS coordinates > (or location associated with coords [note]). > > I would be interested in the development, and I can begin it myself > but: As I understand would be better if it's developed using ETK and > FSO. > - Where can I get ETK and FSO doc? > - Is there any interface guidelines? > - How can I show the menus in the bottom and top of the screen (like > Illume does)? There is any Openmoko toolkit over ETK to do this? > > Comments on this "thing" will be appreciated. (and sorry for my bad > english). > > -- Diego. > > > [note] Would be useful some kind of system wide human-readable > locations associated with GPS coordinates (or and area centered in a GPS > coordinates). The DMS, GPS located notes, GPS located profiles (sound, > dim & lock, scream-if-I'm-locked-and-anybody-catches-me) could use it > too. > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinusitis > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
I wouldn't have any need for such a feature, but it should be very easy to implement in a few lines of Python. -ken _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
