On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:22:36 +0200 Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:26 PM, rhn <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hey. > > I finally decided to switch to the new SHR-T after using the old SHR-U > > because I was afraid of breakage and not having time to fix stuff on my own. > > As I expected, most of the bugs are ironed out now, but some remain. > > > > The most annoying thing is that sometimes, multipart SMS I send are cut > > off. This happens only when my SIM card is full (I remember sending SMS via > > ogsmd required copying it to SIM and then sending). I guess that could be > > solved by copying messages from the SIM and always keeping some space on the > > card. Or at least presenting the user with a message along the lines of "You > > have to clean up your SIM card". > > > > The second most annoying thing was a bug in the new screen dimming feature. > > In some cases, using the phone irregularly causes the screen to get stuck in > > the half-lit mode. After a while, it dims again, but doesn't light up fully > > until restart. > > > > One more thing is Unicode support in SMS. I daresay it's actually unwelcome > > in many cases. Most mobile phones and SMS sending services convert Unicode > > to plain ASCII, because UCS-2 encoded messages are heavy and costly. > > Someone will say: "don't use Unicode signs". Well, that would be fine if > > the only input was a dumb keyboard, but our keyboards support dictionaries > > that do contain Unicode letters. > > My proposition is to mgive users choice to convert Unicode letters to their > > ASCII approximations. I would have done that myself, but I couldn't find my > > way through the C code responsible for that. I would happily extend the > > settings app though. > > > > Having said that, I have to admit that current SHR-t is the most > > comfortable image I've ever used! Being able to store all messages I receive > > is something I've been waiting for so long. The alarms app - it literally > > feels like someone was reading my mind! > > Last but not least, I'm happy to finally have a notes application. I used > > to write my notes down in text files, and that required running terminal and > > then the all-keyboard vi... BTW, there's a need for a finger-friendly text > > editor, too. > > > > Cheers! > > rhn > > _______________________________________________ > > > Concerning messages: We do send messages as 7bit gsm (i.e, not ucs2) when > possible, we do not try to convert to approximation because we want to send > EXACTLY what you asked us to send, you don't want to send unicode messages, > don't type unicode characters, it's as simple as that (in my pov). The > remaining characters counter shows ~70 when it's a unicode message and ~160 > when it's 7bit gsm. > Don't you think I have a point? > -- > Tom. > It's not as easy as that. I'm using the Illume keyboard with a normal dictionary, containing all the words exactly how they are written. I use the dictionary not only for SMS: I write notes, emails or communicate using Pidgin. I enter Unicode words there and I'm happy about it. I don't want to use two separate dictionaries for SMS and for everything else. It's impossible with the Illume keyboard anyway, because it shares the dynamic part regardless of the "main" dictionary. You're basically saying "don't use the dictionary at all or pay twice for messages". Yes, I know that it's not something you couldn't live without, but it helps *a lot* to be able to type quickly and not pay and arm and a leg for that. I agree that modifying all Unicode messages is unacceptable, but it shouldn't be bad if the user could choose. Cheers, rhn _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
