Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: [...] If the phone is not upside down, alert as predefined. Continue sniffing: if the phone is turned upside down, go silent, stop vibra. And reject the call too, I guess? Possibly but I wouldn't do that - to the caller it's like I don't want to talk with him

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:33:18AM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Shouldn't be very hard but it'd be extremely cool. Integration to a distro (SHR maybe :) might be a bit more of a hack (adding GUI to enable/disable this feature etc) though.. Very valid pros and cons so far, but for most

RE: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Niels Heyvaert
Shouldn't be very hard but it'd be extremely cool. Integration to a distro (SHR maybe :) might be a bit more of a hack (adding GUI to enable/disable this feature etc) though.. Yes, it does sound like a cool feature, as long as it is turned off by default :-). Question is, is this the

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Am Freitag 28 August 2009 09:48:46 schrieb Niels Heyvaert: Shouldn't be very hard but it'd be extremely cool. Integration to a distro (SHR maybe :) might be a bit more of a hack (adding GUI to enable/disable this feature etc) though.. Yes, it does sound like a cool feature, as long as it

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread arne anka
that what if it wasn't just turning the phone that caused the call to go silent, but a fast speed? Regardless of starting direction... So you could take the phone out and it wouldn't go silent just yet until you whip it. yepp. if you hit right, it might silence the fr for good.

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:33:18AM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: From what I heard the issue is that reading accelerometers is very CPU-intensive. Not really! omnewrotate doesn't ever take more than 1% and usually is around 0% (according to top -d 1 -p ...) What's very cpu intensive is to

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Hi! There's been this rumor about using accelerometers of Freerunner to ignore a call around. At the moment there are no useful applications for gestures, only (great!) games: mokomaze, doom etc. Someone wrote the framework for gestures but it's not been actually

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Michal Brzozowski
If the phone is not upside down, alert as predefined. Continue sniffing: if the phone is turned upside down, go silent, stop vibra. And reject the call too, I guess? What happens if I change the phone profile when it's ringing? Does it keep just vibrating if I change to it to

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-28 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Helge Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote: Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Can you check that is is exactly upside down, and ring anyway if it is a few degrees or more off from completely flat? People put phones is pockets. Women put them in handbags, even. So the

[all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-27 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi! There's been this rumor about using accelerometers of Freerunner to ignore a call around. At the moment there are no useful applications for gestures, only (great!) games: mokomaze, doom etc. Someone wrote the framework for gestures but it's not been actually integrated in any(?) distro.

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-27 Thread Alex Teiche
I feel like this would be more of an annoyance then a feature during normal use. Like Risto said, putting it in your pocket could be annoying. However, I feel like this could be really useful in stands, e.g. car mount. If you don't want to recieve calls while in the car(but are using the GPS, for

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-27 Thread Alex Teiche
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alex Teiche xelap...@gmail.com wrote: I feel like this would be more of an annoyance then a feature during normal use. Like Risto said, putting it in your pocket could be annoying. However, I feel like this could be really useful in stands, e.g. car mount. If

Re: [all] Don't answer a call by turning FR upside down..

2009-08-27 Thread Bernd Prünster
Risto H. Kurppa schrieb: Hi! There's been this rumor about using accelerometers of Freerunner to ignore a call around. At the moment there are no useful applications for gestures, only (great!) games: mokomaze, doom etc. Someone wrote the framework for gestures but it's not been actually