Norbert Hartl wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:01 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: >> Norbert Hartl wrote: >>> What is qpe exactly doing? I noticed a lot of problems >>> other people reporting like the no pin dialog. Looking >>> at the device qpe uses 100% CPU for a long time. I don't >>> understand it but the CPU usage of qpe is capable to slow >>> down other things extremely. The SIM Pin dialog is working >>> with the new firmware but delayed through qpe. >>> >>> Holger Freyther gave me the hint that it is looking for >>> media on the SD card. In >>> >>> /opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/Storage.conf >> That is one possible thing it is doing at startup. The idea is that it >> is a phone, and you only startup in rare instances. >> > If we take a stable phone than you are right.
If you develop a phone for only developers, then thats what you get. A phone that only a small niche of developers are going to want to use. > But at the moment > people need to start often and that leads to a situation where > these settings confuse a lot of people. Then take the SD card entry out of the conf file. > It is even there if > you start your phone the first time. To raise user experience > this search should be delayed and it should be assured that this > search is happening on a very low priority so it does not block > anything. There could be even an indicator that is visually > announcing the search. But let us be realistic :) >>> there is a section where qpe is configured for the media >>> it should search. For the SD card every media type is >>> activated. So the qpe searches the SD card after booting >>> blocking a lot of other things. There are two issues for >>> me: >>> >>> - it is discussable if these settings are useful as default >>> to search for media on the SD card. While being troublesome >>> I would be against it >> If Qtopia is not allowed to search the SD card, it will not be able to >> see/use files on it, so then why have it at all? >> > Because there is always something in between black and white. There > could be some intelligent way to detect when it is necessary to > refresh. And users are quite used to know that software is stupid > and they praise the existence of a manual trigger for such actions. The trigger is someone booting up, or inserting the SD card. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community