Werner Almesberger wrote: > Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: >> it is a new virtual terminal for Openmoko, with a complete fullscreen >> keyboard and sound. > > Wow, I love this idea ! Alas, it looks a little slow. (Haven't tried to > run it yet, just looked at the videos.) > > Here's an idea how you could perhaps make it much faster: > > A long time ago, I discussed with Carsten about what the Glamo could > do for us. Predictably, this quickly turned into some rather extensive > bashing of this ill-fated chip. On item that came up is the lack of > proper support for a feature X11 calls "compositing": > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager > > The Glamo hardware has the ability to blend images, but, if I recall > our discussion correctly, X11 expects the blending operation to support > certain formats which the Glamo doesn't. So the conclusion was that it > wouldn't be possible to accelerate full X11 compositing with the Glamo. >
Hm. But the glamo supports _some_ format. Will X11 be able to take advantage of that, if the app is smart and request exactly the subsets of blending operations/dataformats that the glamo can do? [...] > Oh, and where are the applications ? :-) When Openmoko first announced > the Linux-based GTA01, I read a lot of jokes about the kind of user > interface a Linux phone would have. Usually they were of the kind > "making a phone call is easy and intuitive:" > > # phone dial -d /dev/ttySAC0 --number=+123456789 --voice > > But I wonder if something that would make a call with simply > > # call foobar > > wouldn't be about as convenient to use as a GUI. Hang up with ^C, > background and do something else with ^Z, etc. :-) > I have such a script for sms, but not for calls. I can send a message like this: # sms 123456789 "Short message text" The script works with SHR, and probably FSO: #!/bin/sh mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SMS.SendMessage u\"$1\" "$2" {} That is supposed to be 2 lines, but thunderbird tends to wrap. Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community