Mirko Lindner wrote: > Hi, > > I've been tracking OM unstable. Now that Paroli is starting at boot > > with a full-screen I can't figure out how to start any other > > applications outside of using ssh. Then once started the application > > doesn't have the Illume top-bar available to do any of the functions it > > provided such as application switching or ending the program. I tried > > killing paroli-launcher. That left me with a black-screen. > > > > Is there something I'm missing? > > > No you aren't missing anything. Our goal is to provide a distribution > that allows the user to use the gta02 as a daily phone. In order to > achieve this faster we decided to make certain sacrifices to save time > and energy, as our team is only small. One of these was worrying too > much about integrating in illume. > > To put it in one sentence: > > for Now the paroli image comes with these styles installed. We hope we > can change that in the future. There is a way of "reactivating" the old > style, I will try to compile a document and publish it here. > > /mirko > I too have been tracking the unstable images and slowly digging in to the code to try and contribute.
First the answer: You can get back to using illume by logging in with SSH and doing opkg remove paroli-autostart rm -rf /home/root/.e reboot You should then get the illume launcher on next boot and be able to launch paroli as a regular application. There are still problems with the sizing as the current paroli only works properly as a stand alone application. It does have a setting in /etc/paroli/paroli.cfg to turn off standalone but not all the applications, particularly the dialer, honour it as the screen is too large and the bottom portion is cut off. Second a bit of a rant: I have to say that I am extremely disappointed in this decision to prevent users from using the functionality of their phone. Why would anyone want to purchase a piece of hardware with as much promise as the freerunner and not be able to use it for anything but what a sub $50 dollar phone has been able to do for years? It just doesn't make sense to me when it seems so easy to shrink paroli down a little bit and use illume. I have wondered for some time about why Paroli was duplicating functionality from illume. (e.g. the Battery level) Now I understand and I am flabbergasted. Yes I do want stable phone functionality but not at the expense of all other functionality. Scott Petersen _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
