Ken, I think you have read my mind , translate it to english, and post in the list, well maybe the latin sentences and references to kant are replaced by basic complain :) El mié, 23-07-2008 a las 13:54 -0700, Ken Restivo escribió: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:16:22PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > > IMO it's crazy for you (the senior developer to ASU? you're surely > > > the most active?) to have his hands tied by these shadowy "designers" > > > who can interfere apparently on a whim. Especially when they're > > > coming up with crazy decisions that are technically poor!! > > > > welcome to openmoko. i get paid to program. i am not a designer (as i have > > been > > told) and thus am not qualified to make decisions there (so i have been > > informed). i am paid to program. so that is what i will do. > > > > If you've been mismanaged/micromanaged so badly that you've had to adopt what > Neitzche called the "Sklavmoral"-- or "I'm not paid to think, I'm only paid > to wash the floors"-- attitude in order to survive, it doesn't bode well for > OpenMoko. > > In any case, you're doing great work, so "illigitimum non carborundum". I > can't tell you how delighted I was when I saw the "qwerty" button suddenly > appear after doing an opkg upgrade! And the ability to choose different > keyboard layouts from a pop-up menu was great. I thought to myself, "now THIS > is a well-managed project, critical features that I need are being added > without even asking for them, and the progress is daily!". And now of course > it is gone. > > Can someone please document what hack is necessary to add that button back > in? And, yes, if anyone wants to please fork the necessary package, I will > subscribe to that feed instead, because the ability to use an on-screen > keyboard on a Linux phone is a must-have for me. The Illume keyboard with > Full-QWERTY is excellent and I love it. I need to be able to launch it > manually in order to use it with Minimo and openmoko-terminal2-- the two apps > I purchased the phone to use. > > If some more "elegant" method is designed later on, and works, I'll switch to > it. But for now I need a working keyboard in the terminal, and web browser, > and all the other apps. > > I'm sure all this will get sorted out eventually, and rough going like this > is normal in the early days, so no big deal. > > -ken > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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