Hi GNUtoo,
I hope you change your mind, or if you do stop working on SHR, I hope
you consider helping more with upstream programs that shr uses.
I probably should be doing more to help. The hardest part for me is
getting to the point in shr-chroot where I can edit source, build, test,
and easily submit a patch. An expansion to the 'building shr' page with
instructions for how to submit a patch might help.
Tonight I sent patches upstream (no need for shr-chroot) to podboy and
mokometeo for the elementary API changes.
I think there is a hardware fix for the poor headphone sound quality. I
haven't tried it myself and I promised myself that I would not take
apart my phone again until it is time to install the GTA04 board.
There is a workaround for eve crashing:
chmod 000 .config/eve/WebpageIcons.db
Could you explain what is going on with midori? Is it a matter of
adding some new icons to the default theme?
For me, SHR-core is finally getting to the point where it better than
the last SHR-unstable which is exciting and I am looking forward to
running it on my GTA04 when it arrives.
Ben
On 04/09/2012 01:47 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
Hi,
I think I can't handle more of it, so I'm thinking of quiting SHR.
The main problems are that there is too much work to be done,too few
developers(that means too much work for me) and the phones aren't really
unusable(that means a lot of frustrations and nervousness):
* With openembedded-core we don't have all the software that we had before,
for instance we lack an IRC client and a decent cross-device browser:
firefox segfault at startup, midori segfaults at startup if you don't change
the icon theme, eve segfault at second startup or often at runtime. if we
forget about gta02(armv4t) we could fix it for the armv7 devices with firefox
or chromium(I've a recipe for it at work). but we have to support the gta02
too, there is also links -g for gta02 but the scrollbars are too smalls to
make it usable.
* The GTA04 is still unusable: no good alsa forwarding(I failled big on that
and no one seem to want to pickup the work ), and it still has FSO modem bugs(
#669 and #670).
* The nokia n900 still has bad sound quality during calls(I tried again to
fix it without luck,maybe we should just revert to when it worked better?)
which prevent it to be usable either.
* The Nexus S worked fine but had incomplete modem support, now it has more
complete modem support but no sound during calls anymore.
* I don't know the status of palm-pre, I unbroke booting but mine has a
touchscreen issue that prevented me from really trying it.
* Then someone may think that the GTA02 is the most usable SHR phone....but
still it has hardware bugs(microsd issues,bad sound quality on headphones),but
most important it also has a suspend bug which prevent it to be used as daily
phone(the bug is that sometimes the phone doesn't resume at all. there is also
another suspend bug where when you play a sound during suspend you get no
sound at resume...). Beside all that bluetooth is better than before but still
not integrated well enough(no support for SCO for instance,or A2DP not working
out of the box).
we also have some long standing other minor issues like running on a root
account and not having correct VOIP,<insert some features wanted by a dev at
a given time> but I think they should be forgetten for now given the above
issues.
Denis.
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