These are some notes (and some complaints and wishlist :-)) about plucker, mostly from user perspective. Much of it is Palm Tungsten C specific, since that is the device I use.
First, Tungsten C has very bright backlight. While it is OK in direct sun, it virutally burns my eyes everywhere else, and I keep the brightness on minimum all the time. This can be partially solved by selecting 'Nostalgia' skin, which sets up background to dark green, and by using some applications (BLOff) that apparently turn the backlight off on some Palm devices, but on Tungsten C they just decrease the brightness even below the minimum settable directly from the brightness slider. Unfortunately, it is not dark enough, and it still glows in dark environment (one cannot select custom colour for background, only those predefined by ROM - neither I did find any hack with this purpose). So the first wish: 1) user settable background and foreground colours Mobireader has it, and setting background to very dark green makes it possible to look at the screen comfortably even in total darkness. My other gripe about Tungsten C is that even with custom background, there is still about 2 pixels wide white strip around the screen, and it seems nothing can be done about that. It is distracting, but the real problem with reading plucker document are characters displayed directly at the border - the white strip is just too distracting. So the second wish: 2) optional border around displayed text (i.e. there is a space some pixels wide between text and screen border) Another problem is with antialiased fonts - they are antialiased towards white colour, so you can imagine how it looks on green background - black letters, surrounded by white contour on a green background. I tried to make custom non-antialiased fonts, by omitting "gray" argument of topalmtext, but then I had to add grayMap at the beginning of resulting *.txt file, and I cannot make transparent background (it was always white - perhaps I just do not quite understand how font creation works :-/) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
