On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:38:07AM +0800, John Lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:47:29AM +0100, Al Johnson wrote: > > I'll snip most of it to keep the length reasonable. > > same here :) > > > On Tuesday 29 July 2008, William Lai wrote: > > > > > > It already is. > > > We've offered a couple of different solutions to community requests that > > > were declined by, well, engineering. One of them was: > > > > > > * create a package to be installed through installer adding manual > > > qwerty button to illume theme. > > > > The only suggestion I remember was that the community fork illume. Is this > > a > > different take on the same suggestion, or a different suggestion? What was > > the other option? And what was the objection to providing it as a > > configuration option with the default being off, as proposed on this list? > > > What we are trying to do: > > provide a OM repository and a community repository. in this > particular case, if in the end the illume still shipped without kbd > button, then the community will very likely provide another version of > illume called illume-kbd in the community repository. thus you can > replace the shipped illume with illume-kbd, and the next upgrade will > get the new version of illume-kbd instead of illume, so you don't need > to change it again after upgrade. > > > Where we are right at the moment: > > illume is there. > > the community repository is not ready yet but we're working on it. > > the dependency handling of replacing the shipped illume with > illume-kbd is not ready yet but we're working on it. > > > My personal comment on this: > > if the illume is so much more popular then illume-kdb (theoretically > we can know that from the repository log) or the other way around then > you bet that fact will be very effective in OM. ;) >
I bought the FreeRunner in order to: 1) Use for remote system administration, via a terminal and onscreen keyboards, via SSH over WiFi and GPRS. 2) Browse the web via WiFi and/or GPRS 3) Read/write email using some kind of IMAP mail app, and send/recieve SMS 4) Make and receive calls via VOIP and GSM 5) Play media (Vorbis, MP3, FLV's, MP4's) and record audio 6) Write a custom touchscreen UI app for a linux-based music synthesizer (connecting to the synth via Bluetooth) 7) Maybe run some simple synth applications on the FR, using the USB host mode to connect it to a MIDI keyboard. So far, not even the first 5 of those are complete and reliable enough for me to actually use without hassle, and based on what I've read here, I'm estimating about 2 years before they are. In the meantime, however, I've realized that I can probably get through the rest of my life happily without *any* of the above features, and I should have waited a few more years before spending so much money. -ken _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community