On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Leonti Bielski <prishe...@gmail.com> wrote: > So after using it for a while I can say that I'm impressed. > > When I first saw tichy on FSO distribution it was slow and I thought > nothing would come out of it. > Thanks for proving me wrong! > I like it's distribution independent approach - It has it's own > keyboard and graphical toolkit - must be a lot of work! > > The only thing is that while in fullscreen mode you can run nothing > except for tichy. I didn't find a way to switch between full screen > mode and normal one. > > Also, can you add easier case change for the keyboard? Ruight now if I > wan to write uppercase I have to go through all keyboard to get back > to small letters. > > But in overall I like it, and I see that it has made a lot of progress.
Thanks ! you just encouraged me to work on the next release of tichy. Starting other applications from tichy is indeed a problem, but there is an experimental applet -contribution from Michael "Goodwill"- that allow to do that. I want to improve this for the next release. There is currently no way to switch between fullscreen and normal mode, I will try to implement this, shouldn't be a problem. The keyboard needs a lot of work too, it is still too slow (I have some idea why), and as you say, not very good for switching modes. btw : for some reason, tichy is faster on debian. I think this is because the ipkg I did didn't compile the C file with optimisation on. I will also try to solve this. All in all, that would roughly be my TODO list for next release : * Redo the Service system (it is too slow and complicated right now.) * Improve the user interface code (too slow as well, and a little bit messy.) * Add a GTK backend (that is working already, I just need to make it easy to configure) * If possible, improve the keyboard. * Being able to start external applications. * Start to work on tests suits, using py.test [0] module. As I said, I can't really predict how much time I will have to work on it, so I prefer not to give any date for the next release. Thanks again for your inputs ! cheers, Guillaume [0] http://codespeak.net/py/dist/test.html _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
