> the point i was making is that when people are in stressful > situations they panic; even something as simple as selecting a > different option at boot-time becomes difficult. > > the point about the screen lock was an example to illustrate my main > point. there are many more i could have chosen, but picked one > related to mobile phones
No, You can't generalize like that. I'm a paramedic, I know when things are bad enough I should make the call and I don't have second doubts about it. When the situation arises and my Freerunner is for some reason turned off, it's not the panic element that stands before me and a connection to the EMT dispatcher but the time that I need to make my phone usable for said call. The choice should be there for those that have a use for those 20 extra seconds when it's needed. It could be an add-on and not included in the main distros, I don't care. I'm just saying that there are people who know, how to make best use out of this kind of solution. I see it as an installable ipk package containing a kernel image as well as a (modified) gsm daemon + everything else essential to the call that would probably go on a separate partition. There would be instructions to make to the boot manager and we'd have exactly what we need. Yogiz _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
