On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:32:36 +0100 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 04:03:20 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:50:31 +0100 Robert Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > babbled: > > > Hi, > > > you recently had a discussion on this list to reduce the boot time and I > > > have a suggestion for this: > > > > > > If possible the phone should ask for my GSM pin number (if SIM card is > > > in) while running the initialization scripts in the background and > > > (perhaps) should not let me into X before the number has not been > > > entered. > > > > and how do you propose to display the dialog, request and on-screen > > keyboard as well as handle input... without x? :) (other than > > re-implementing it all) :) > > Funny that _you_ are asking that... ever heard about ecore-fb? ;) > > On topic though, making it mandatory to ask for PIN before launching the UI > introduces a number of problems, e.g. how about Flight mode, or PDA mode? that was more my point - that it shouldn't lock out the whole UI. it should simply lock out anything SIM related - i.e. - calls, sms, data over gprs etc. etc. the rest of the phone should work. by then you have a complete UI. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
