On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Ken Restivo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > 2 years? At the rate I am seeing progress, I would bet closer to two months, as it seems the ASU and eventual FSO images are coming along quite nicely. > > 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 >
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