Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Toni Mueller supp...@oeko.net wrote:

 Other things that I'd change if I were able to, off the top of my head:


Hi Tony!

 A great list of issues and things to write down for further development.

Please add the items here so they're all on one list and can easily be
read through: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-issues


Thanks!


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RE: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-22 Thread Tom Yates
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Staley, Daniel L wrote:

 3.)  This is a big one for me:  When someone sends me a text message, 
 the number does not get looked up in the addressbook.  The lookup works 
 fine when someone calls me, but not when an sms comes in.  I just see 
 the number instead of the name.

is it possible that this is http://www.paroli-project.org/trac/ticket/145 
?  if so, please feel free to add a report!  not too many people seem to 
be upset about this at the moment (which is of course fair, if it doesn't 
bite them).


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:46:54PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
 
 Hi Angus,
 
 On Thu, 21.05.2009 at 10:03:50 -0600, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org 
 wrote:
  The time gets updated from the network
 
 NTP, I assume?
 
 That'd be very much ok.
 
  Thats paroli talking to the frame work before the framework is ready to 
  respond.
 
 Ok.
 
  I'd prefer digital too and maybe even white on black to match the rest of 
  paroli. Send a patch for the paroli-illume profile and I'll integrate it.
 
 In Paroli, it's white on black, but in Illume, the top bar is light
 grey. There, it should probably be black on white for that reason.
 
   * I have yet to find out how to rotate the screen on demand.
  xrandr

Or install omnewrotate (which uses libxrandr to swiftly rotate the screen on
the demand caused by the phone's position) :)

With Om2009.t4 should be just opkg install omnewrotate

Rui

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/20 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 I've been told that you can install the package udev-static-devices to
 reduce the boot time by ~30s (but if you have your home on
 /media/disk/bind-home, it'll not work, see
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing ) - stuff still under
 development.

how do we install this package? i can't find it in the om archives; is
it from a separate feed, or does it need to be installed manually?

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote:
 how do we install this package? i can't find it in the om archives; is
 it from a separate feed, or does it need to be installed manually?

http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/numptyphysics_0.2+svnr109-r1_armv4t.ipk
http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/tangogps_0.9.6-r0_armv4t.ipk
etc

Laszlo

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/22 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com:
 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 how do we install this package? i can't find it in the om archives; is
 it from a separate feed, or does it need to be installed manually?

 http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/numptyphysics_0.2+svnr109-r1_armv4t.ipk
 http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/tangogps_0.9.6-r0_armv4t.ipk
 etc


that's confusing. i'm trying to install udev-static-devices, because
apparently it will speed up boot time.

it's not listed in the feeds which are on my neo (including
'http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/' as you
listed above) - as shown by 'opkg list|grep udev-static-device'
returning nothing.

so, if it's not in those feeds, where is the package?

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Angus Ainslie
On May 21, 2009 07:22:15 am Robin Paulson wrote:
 that's confusing. i'm trying to install udev-static-devices, because
 apparently it will speed up boot time.

 it's not listed in the feeds which are on my neo (including
 'http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/armv4t/' as you
 listed above) - as shown by 'opkg list|grep udev-static-device'
 returning nothing.


It hasn't made it to the testing feed yet. You will need to get it from the 
unstable feed

http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/unstable/

Angus

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RE: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Staley, Daniel L
Hi,

I decided I'd try to start using om2009 as my daily phone to help test it out.
Here are a few of my comments (some I'm sure have been mentioned before)

1.)  I really like the paroli look/interface!  It is simple, responsive, and 
the contrast makes it easy to see.
2.)  If you rotate the screen orientation, the main menu for paroli does not 
resize well.  Other parts, (the dialer for instance) work fine rotated though.
3.)  This is a big one for me:  When someone sends me a text message, the 
number does not get looked up in the addressbook.  The lookup works fine when 
someone calls me, but not when an sms comes in.  I just see the number instead 
of the name.
4.)  The people page needs to jump to the first contact that starts with a 
letter typed.  I have hundreds of contacts, and scrolling through them to find 
someone is a royal pain.  If I could jump to a letter, that would be great.

I'll continue testing it and comment about anything else I see, but so far I 
really like it!  Good job guys!

-Dan Staley

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi,

On Wed, 20.05.2009 at 04:24:33 -0400, Mirko Lindner mi...@openmoko.com wrote:
 Toni Mueller wrote:
 I thought I'd just throw my 0.02 cents into the arena. ;}
 Yeah, we want it all :)

while flashing moko11 I've just discovered that Paroli doesn't let me
set the date, but only the time. For some obscure reason, after a
reboot (all w/o a GSM SIM card), the date was magically adjusted from
May 9th to today.


Other things that I'd change if I were able to, off the top of my head:


* I still happen to not understand Paroli's UI. The battery looks like
  being empty in Paroli, but full in Illume.

* There's a strange icon to the left of the battery that doesn't say
  what it is, nor what it wants to tell me.

* I generally like Illume better, but would like the Illume task bar
  (?) to vanish unless used.

* The minuscule analog clock doesn't really serve a purpose, imho. It'd
  be better to either (configurably) replace it by a digital clock,
  and/or maximize it when activated, like any other application, too.

* I'd like to freely configure the selection and order of apps in that
  task bar, and probably have bigger arrows to press, owing to my fat
  fingers.

  Btw, I've just gotten an Enlightenment Error, SEGV.

* Illume (Paroli?) should have a reset to factory setting option,
  so I don't have to re-flash in case I made a mistake.

* I have yet to find out how to rotate the screen on demand.

* Suspend should be configurable to not being activated while on USB
  power. It's annoying to me that the device always goes to sleep,
  and consequently, my SSH connection goes down, while I'm looking
  something up in the wiki or elsewhere.

* After several reboots, the time has now been turned backwards for
  well over an hour. The difference is small enough to suggest to me
  that maybe the device displays what it thinks is UTC instead of local
  time (which I configured).


* After several suspend-resume cycles, Enlightenment crashes with a
  SEGV. In normal PCs, this suggests a hardware problem (bad ram!)
  unless the software is really broken...

I know that asking for wishes and not doing anything is rather cheap...

 Hit the topbar (the small clock the the top of the screen) that should  
 always get you back to the homescreen.

I've been able to pinpoint this a bit more. Running w/o a GSM SIM card,
I've entered the dialer in Paroli, typed a number, and then pressed
Call. Naturally, no call was placed, but after that, I couldn't go
back to the main Paroli screen anymore.


And one OT remark: Often, bug numbers are slung around. It would be
good to have either full bug URLs for the various trackers used, and/or
shortcuts in the Wiki that would redirect properly edited bug numbers
to the right tracker. Eg. the user types shr:#123, and the wiki
redirects one to the corresponding tracker entry in the SHR tracker
(hypothetical example, but you get the idea). So far, I'm often a bit
at a loss as to which bug trackers (and where) are actually implied if
I see a bug number.


Kind regards,
--Toni++


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Angus Ainslie
On May 21, 2009 09:21:07 am Toni Mueller wrote:
 Hi,

 On Wed, 20.05.2009 at 04:24:33 -0400, Mirko Lindner mi...@openmoko.com 
wrote:
  Toni Mueller wrote:
  I thought I'd just throw my 0.02 cents into the arena. ;}
 
  Yeah, we want it all :)

 while flashing moko11 I've just discovered that Paroli doesn't let me
 set the date, but only the time. For some obscure reason, after a
 reboot (all w/o a GSM SIM card), the date was magically adjusted from
 May 9th to today.


The time gets updated from the network


 Other things that I'd change if I were able to, off the top of my head:


 * I still happen to not understand Paroli's UI. The battery looks like
   being empty in Paroli, but full in Illume.


Thats paroli talking to the frame work before the framework is ready to 
respond.

 * There's a strange icon to the left of the battery that doesn't say
   what it is, nor what it wants to tell me.


GSM signal level

 * The minuscule analog clock doesn't really serve a purpose, imho. It'd
   be better to either (configurably) replace it by a digital clock,
   and/or maximize it when activated, like any other application, too.


I'd prefer digital too and maybe even white on black to match the rest of 
paroli. Send a patch for the paroli-illume profile and I'll integrate it.


 * I have yet to find out how to rotate the screen on demand.


xrandr

 * Suspend should be configurable to not being activated while on USB
   power. It's annoying to me that the device always goes to sleep,
   and consequently, my SSH connection goes down, while I'm looking
   something up in the wiki or elsewhere.

It should not suspend while plugged in. But there is a race condition in 
framework that those rules don't get properly applied sometimes. What 
sometimes works is to unplug the usb cable until the LED goes out and then 
plug it back in. I should not suspend after that point


 * After several reboots, the time has now been turned backwards for
   well over an hour. The difference is small enough to suggest to me
   that maybe the device displays what it thinks is UTC instead of local
   time (which I configured).


Instead of configuring it for locatime you should set the correct localtime 
file 
and set ZONESOURCES=NONE in /etc/frameworkd.conf

Angus


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi,

some more breakage, may be unrelated to Om2009, though...


I've managed to mangle my menues, so now I can't get at the settings
anymore, and the Terminal is also gone. I don't remember being able to
completely disable suspend, and my micro SD card seems to be not
properly recognized. At least, I get this:

r...@om-gta02:~#fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 968 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks  Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1   1  33  265041  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p2  34  66  265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/mmcblk0p3  67 968 7245315   5 Extended
/dev/mmcblk0p5  67 193 1020096  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p6 194 320 1020096  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p7 321 447 1020096  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p8 448 968 4184901  83 Linux


r...@om-gta02:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/root on /dev/.static/dev type jffs2 (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=2048k,mode=755)
/dev/mmcblk0p7 on /media/mmcblk0p7 type ext3 
(rw,sync,errors=continue,data=ordered)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/card type ext3 (rw,errors=continue,data=ordered)
/dev/mmcblk0p5 on /media/mmcblk0p5 type ext3 
(rw,sync,errors=continue,data=ordered)
/dev/mmcblk0p6 on /media/mmcblk0p6 type ext3 
(rw,sync,errors=continue,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /var/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,mode=777)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)


I didn't do anything - don't know how the partitions got mounted, BUT

r...@om-gta02:~# mkdir data
r...@om-gta02:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p8  data
mount: special device /dev/mmcblk0p8 does not exist


r...@om-gta02:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p8
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Could not stat /dev/mmcblk0p8 --- No such file or directory

The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?


I did have some unclean shutdowns, though...


IOW, the second half of my 8 gig card which I wanted to use for maps and
other data that is not OS specific and uses large amounts of storage, is
always available.


One more problem: Once the X server crashes, there's apparently NO way
to restart it w/o having at least an SSH connection to the device, or
the device rebooted. There should be an easier way, imho.


Kind regards,
--Toni++

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi Angus,

On Thu, 21.05.2009 at 10:03:50 -0600, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote:
 The time gets updated from the network

NTP, I assume?

That'd be very much ok.

 Thats paroli talking to the frame work before the framework is ready to 
 respond.

Ok.

 I'd prefer digital too and maybe even white on black to match the rest of 
 paroli. Send a patch for the paroli-illume profile and I'll integrate it.

In Paroli, it's white on black, but in Illume, the top bar is light
grey. There, it should probably be black on white for that reason.

  * I have yet to find out how to rotate the screen on demand.
 xrandr

Thank you. I guess that someone should appropriately augment the
Getting Started page in the wiki to explain the different GUIs, along
with screenshots/photos. Taking note do do that at some point...

 Instead of configuring it for locatime you should set the correct localtime 
 file 
 and set ZONESOURCES=NONE in /etc/frameworkd.conf

There was a dialogue in Paroli where I could adjust the time. There, I
entered the time according to my local time zone, being unaware of the
network time stuff. But I'd prefer to configure an /etc/localtime, like
in any other *nix, too. Doing it in frameworkd.conf should work, too.

Thank you for your hand-holding.

Kind regards,
--Toni++

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Angus Ainslie
On May 21, 2009 10:46:54 am Toni Mueller wrote:
 There was a dialogue in Paroli where I could adjust the time. There, I
 entered the time according to my local time zone, being unaware of the
 network time stuff. But I'd prefer to configure an /etc/localtime, like
 in any other *nix, too. Doing it in frameworkd.conf should work, too.


You need to *copy* in the correct zone file from user share zones and set set 
zonesources to NONE.


If you don't set zonesources then as soon as you add a SIM card the zone will 
get set from the GSM network

Angus


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-21 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi,

[ still exploring the thing w/o much of a clue... ]

On Thu, 21.05.2009 at 17:21:07 +0200, Toni Mueller supp...@oeko.net wrote:
 * Illume (Paroli?) should have a reset to factory setting option,
   so I don't have to re-flash in case I made a mistake.

after messing up too much and, as I wrote, having severely
misconfigured Illume, after remembering that it's Linux, I opted to
delete the .e, .gconf and similar directories, then reboot.

This gave me back Paroli, but now I can chose Illume in the display
profile option all day long, and don't ever get back Illume. Another
reboot fixed this.

 * After several suspend-resume cycles, Enlightenment crashes with a
   SEGV. In normal PCs, this suggests a hardware problem (bad ram!)
   unless the software is really broken...

It also happens w/o several suspend-resume cycles. Will investigate
further and hopefully submit a bug report next time.

I've now done some tests with a SIM card (T-Mobile), too:

* I have trouble answering the calls. Placing calls is easy, though.

* On SMS reception, the screen looks rather garbled (imho). Going to
  Paroli's home screen and to the messages from there is my current
  workaround.

* The Enter PIN dialogue should be optional. I'd like to bypass this
  and be able to activate the SIM card sometime later.

* The phonebook (People) is quite unwieldy, but that has already been
  noted by someone else.

* Now with the card activated, the phone feels quite a bit more
  sluggish than before.

* I need to get the buzz fix. ;}


Wishlist: Being able to update to Om2009 final w/o re-flashing.


I'm not overly comfortable writing to the mailing list this way, but
don't have a better idea, yet.


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Mirko Lindner
Hiya,

Toni Mueller wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I thought I'd just throw my 0.02 cents into the arena. ;}

Yeah, we want it all :)

 
 Yesterday I felt bold and flashed Om2009t3 onto my phone, but neither
 moko11 nor the new u-boot yet, though. Playing around without a SIM
 card installed, I found two problems that might be cleared up reading
 the website(s):
 
 1. Once in the dialer, I couldn't exit. In the wiki it says: Go to the
 main screen of Paroli, then press the AUX button for two seconds. But I
 didn't manage getting back to the main screen, and within the dialer,
 the AUX button didn't work.

Hit the topbar (the small clock the the top of the screen) that should 
always get you back to the homescreen.

 
 3. The back/delete (?) button in the dialer, right to Call, is so
 tiny that I didn't find out what it was until I hit it.

that one is on me :(

 
 On the plus side, typing about anything is now MUCH, MUCH faster than
 with Om2008.12 which I had before.
 
That's good news :)

Btw we are preparing for another beta release in the next few days :) 
Hope you are testing that one also and let us know what you think :)

Thanks again :)

/mirko

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Toni Mueller supp...@oeko.net wrote:

 Hi,

 I thought I'd just throw my 0.02 cents into the arena. ;}

Great :)

 1. Once in the dialer, I couldn't exit. In the wiki it says: Go to the
 main screen of Paroli, then press the AUX button for two seconds. But I
 didn't manage getting back to the main screen, and within the dialer,
 the AUX button didn't work.

I agree, it's a bit difficult sometimes having the 'back' button
there, sometimes having to press the top bar to exit..

 2. Instead of shutting down, pressing and holding the power button for
 an extended period simply powered off the device. I think this is
 already known and being worked on, but thought I'd mention it for
 completeness.

Visual feedback will be added at some stage.. I hope..

 4. Booting is so awfully slow that I initially thought that the device
 had crashed.

I've been told that you can install the package udev-static-devices to
reduce the boot time by ~30s (but if you have your home on
/media/disk/bind-home, it'll not work, see
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing ) - stuff still under
development.

 On the plus side, typing about anything is now MUCH, MUCH faster than
 with Om2008.12 which I had before.

What kind of keyboard would you like to have there? I installed qwo
(http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html) just to try it out - not bad :)
Should try the transparent version:
http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~riso/Openmoko/qwo/


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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi,

On Wed, 20.05.2009 at 04:24:33 -0400, Mirko Lindner mi...@openmoko.com wrote:
 Toni Mueller wrote:
 I thought I'd just throw my 0.02 cents into the arena. ;}
 Yeah, we want it all :)

no problem. ;)

 1. Once in the dialer, I couldn't exit. In the wiki it says: Go to the
 main screen of Paroli, then press the AUX button for two seconds. But I
 didn't manage getting back to the main screen, and within the dialer,
 the AUX button didn't work.

 Hit the topbar (the small clock the the top of the screen) that should  
 always get you back to the homescreen.

Well, I already thought as much and tried to hammer all over the
screen, esp. on anything that looked remotely like a button, but also
in the black in between, and on all sides of the frame, too. Nothing
worked, though.

 Btw we are preparing for another beta release in the next few days :)  
 Hope you are testing that one also and let us know what you think :)

I'll look at the change log an then I'll probably be sold. ;}


Kind regards,
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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Toni Mueller

Hi,

On Wed, 20.05.2009 at 12:26:46 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 I've been told that you can install the package udev-static-devices to
 reduce the boot time by ~30s (but if you have your home on
 /media/disk/bind-home, it'll not work, see
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing ) - stuff still under
 development.

thanks for the tip. I'll take a look, although I'm going to have my
home entirely on the SD card, for obvious reasons.

  On the plus side, typing about anything is now MUCH, MUCH faster than
  with Om2008.12 which I had before.
 What kind of keyboard would you like to have there?

So far, I didn't really care much for the different keyboards, but if I
can have a wish, I'd like response times like the current keyboard in
Paroli gives (ie, it immediately gives results as fast as I can type),
not as sluggish with 1-2 second pauses between key presses, like in
Om2008.12, but something that gives me easy ways to type all
characters that I'd like to have, which is *full* Unicode (or close:
Latin9 and Chinese at least). On my desktop computer, I use scim for
this purpose, and for other languages as well. Otherwise, I'd like to
be able to zoom and shrink the keyboard. The idea of scrolling between
different layouts, like in Om2008.12, is interesting and not too bad,
but it's naturally impossible to accommodate all foreign language
characters this way and still have a usable keyboard.

Reading that wishes are not encouraged at this time, I'd probably
better not hold my breath, though.

 I installed qwo
 (http://www.opkg.org/package_84.html) just to try it out - not bad :)
 Should try the transparent version:
 http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~riso/Openmoko/qwo/

Thanks, I'll take a look at these, too. Adjustable transparency,
colours and layouts are good, imho.


Kind regards,
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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Angus Ainslie
Hi Toni

On May 20, 2009 02:11:07 am Toni Mueller wrote:

 2. Instead of shutting down, pressing and holding the power button for
 an extended period simply powered off the device. I think this is
 already known and being worked on, but thought I'd mention it for
 completeness.


If you hold the button for less than 2 seconds it should suspend ( Is that 
what you mean by shutdown ? ). More than 2 seconds and it is supposed to power 
down.

Angus

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Angus Ainslie

 So far, I didn't really care much for the different keyboards, but if I
 can have a wish, I'd like response times like the current keyboard in
 Paroli gives (ie, it immediately gives results as fast as I can type),
 not as sluggish with 1-2 second pauses between key presses, like in
 Om2008.12, but something that gives me easy ways to type all
 characters that I'd like to have, which is *full* Unicode (or close:
 Latin9 and Chinese at least). On my desktop computer, I use scim for
 this purpose, and for other languages as well. Otherwise, I'd like to
 be able to zoom and shrink the keyboard. The idea of scrolling between
 different layouts, like in Om2008.12, is interesting and not too bad,
 but it's naturally impossible to accommodate all foreign language
 characters this way and still have a usable keyboard.


UTF8 should be properly supported in the next testing release. I believe there 
are a few different keyboard layouts in the wiki.

 Reading that wishes are not encouraged at this time, I'd probably
 better not hold my breath, though.


That has changed a bit. We are now encouraging the community to create a wish 
list. What we also need the community to do is implement the wish list.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active

There are some core features that OM is going to implement and then we will 
integrate working solutions built by the community.

Angus

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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote:
 Hi Toni

 On May 20, 2009 02:11:07 am Toni Mueller wrote:

 2. Instead of shutting down, pressing and holding the power button for
 an extended period simply powered off the device. I think this is
 already known and being worked on, but thought I'd mention it for
 completeness.


 If you hold the button for less than 2 seconds it should suspend ( Is that
 what you mean by shutdown ? ). More than 2 seconds and it is supposed to power
 down.

Should but actually there's some problems there - it always doesn't
suspend.. It's more or less a known (but not fixed, I think) bug..

r



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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
 Reading that wishes are not encouraged at this time, I'd probably
 better not hold my breath, though.

 That has changed a bit. We are now encouraging the community to create a wish
 list. What we also need the community to do is implement the wish list.

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active

 There are some core features that OM is going to implement and then we will
 integrate working solutions built by the community.

 Angus

This is great to hear Angus, that actually OM will also include some
solutions from the community - I guess it means we might have a change
of shipping a more complete distro, not only the very minimal, almost
working stuff. Is there a possibility of shipping actual applications
- if they fill your quality requirements. I'd like to see tangogps 
numptyphysics  mokomaze included and I have no problems you setting
some quality limits there for apps to pass.

Way to go!

r




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Re: [Om2009] testing Release 3: first impressions

2009-05-20 Thread Angus Ainslie
On May 20, 2009 09:14:56 am Risto H. Kurppa wrote:

 This is great to hear Angus, that actually OM will also include some
 solutions from the community - I guess it means we might have a change
 of shipping a more complete distro, not only the very minimal, almost
 working stuff. Is there a possibility of shipping actual applications
 - if they fill your quality requirements. I'd like to see tangogps 
 numptyphysics  mokomaze included and I have no problems you setting
 some quality limits there for apps to pass.


All of those applications are already in the feeds. At this point I don't see 
them as being installed by default in the image. I might make some packages 
like moko-games-pack that includes all of the top games or moko-mapping-pack 
which could include tangogps and navit with speechd stripped out.

Angus

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