Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:54:43PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > To add to the debate, the Palm OS in the latest Palm Centro smarphones > show a Bluetooth icon all the time, greyed when not active and Blue > when active. You can click on it and easily turn bluetooth on/off. > > So simple! isn't

UI Questions

2008-09-26 Thread Christer Eliasson
Evening/Morning/G'day all I have been following the thread on the bluetooth icon with some interest and would like to get some clarification on some matters. As i understood it the UI in Maemo is closed so to speak ie Nokia are not giving out the spcs or did i misunderstand it? Also if that

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
To add to the debate, the Palm OS in the latest Palm Centro smarphones show a Bluetooth icon all the time, greyed when not active and Blue when active. You can click on it and easily turn bluetooth on/off. So simple! isn't it?. Apparently not for the Nokia mindset... FC _

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:55:38AM -0600, Mark wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> What's wrong with letting the user decide whether the status >> >> bar is too

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into a >>> single applet (an "Advanced Connectivity" of sorts), but it hasn't >>>

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:55:38AM -0600, Mark wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> What's wrong with letting the user decide whether the status > >> bar is too cluttered or not? > > > > Simplicity is good. Too many choices are overwhelming.

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Faheem Pervez
It can be done by editing the desktop file and removing the mandatory line or by using my quick deb to do it: http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=153051 I won't deny though that it isn't really an end-user "solution". Regards, Faheem On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Marius

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's wrong with letting the user decide whether the status >> bar is too cluttered or not? > > Simplicity is good. Too many choices are overwhelming. What's wrong > with letting the user decide whether he wants so

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:53:07AM -0600, Mark wrote: >> Besides, one can choose to hide any of the status bar icons if it's >> too cluttered, and even pick the order. The problem is that certain >> ones can't be pinned t

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:53:07AM -0600, Mark wrote: > Besides, one can choose to hide any of the status bar icons if it's > too cluttered, and even pick the order. The problem is that certain > ones can't be pinned there. And certain ones (e.g. presence) can't be hidden at all, which irritates m

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ext Mark wrote: >> >> Wonderful... yet another "wontfix" response to usability issues... > > If I understood this correctly, the enhancement requested that > for a set of users who use separate bluetooth keyboard, t

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into a >> single applet (an "Advanced Connectivity" of sorts), but it hasn't >> really gotten off the ground lacking anybody with real

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ryan Abel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into a > single applet (an "Advanced Connectivity" of sorts), but it hasn't > really gotten off the ground lacking anybody with real knowledge of > libconic and the

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Ryan Abel
On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > However, I don't understand what's the problem with this functionality > being offered by a 3rd party component if the component is easily > available from the extras repository? There is a project to combine the Bluetooth and WiFi applets into

Re: N800 RIP?

2008-09-26 Thread John Holmblad
Fernando, I too have considered the N800 to have excellent potential as a wireless/mobile component in a home automation/home control environment. Regarding price levels, I did a quick google product search on the N810 whose results are available at the www page whose url is: http://www.

Re: N800 RIP?

2008-09-26 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Denis Dimick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do wish I had the second card slot, however, I don't need the FM radio. >> I never use the GPS, did use it once when lost, so it's nice to have. >> >> Denis > > The extra $100 in the price is NO

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Mark wrote: > Wonderful... yet another "wontfix" response to usability issues... If I understood this correctly, the enhancement requested that for a set of users who use separate bluetooth keyboard, the pre-installed device software usability would be improved by changing the UI as propo

Re: Log-in to scratch-box without using password.

2008-09-26 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:23:18PM +0530, atul raut wrote: > How to login to Scrach-box without > password is there any way ? When I run sb-login, I'm never asked for a password. Marius Gedminas -- Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by s

Log-in to scratch-box without using password.

2008-09-26 Thread atul raut
Hi all, How to login to Scrach-box without password is there any way ? br atul -- "You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Good Impression" Atul Raut Hyderabad - 500 033

Re: Another annoyance: bluetooth icon disappears

2008-09-26 Thread kenneth marken
On Friday 26 September 2008 00:01:00 Mark wrote: > Wonderful... yet another "wontfix" response to usability issues... > > One problem is that putting the device in offline mode disables > bluetooth, but taking it out of offline mode usually doesn't re-enable > bluetooth (at least 75% of the time on