David Lanzendörfer wrote: >> Seems to me that some of the functionality you mention of searching for >> apps which implement a certain interface is already built into DBus >> itself. All that remains is to define the minimum interfaces that a >> certain application type must implement. An app is free to augment that >> list if if requires but there is a minimum set that a Dialer app must >> implement. > Only dialing is not enough. We need a linkage with other Apps. > Do a graphical UNIX way. > We make a lot of different apps, where each single apps does exactly ONE > thing. > But this thing it does properly. > E.g. I wanna do a phonecall, so I open dialer, click on the field on top of > the buttons. > Contact manager appears. > The contact I selected gets communicated over DBUS onto the dialer. > Which calls it. > >> I'll try to go through those links but I would also say that the android >> method of displaying information on the screen is a very good idea. At >> present my shr-u phone just displays the apps I have installed, by >> default. I don't really consider that to be useful information. HTC's >> overlay stuff for android which lets an app display facebook updates or >> weather updates or share price updates is a good mechanism of displaying >> actual info. Maybe that's already in the links like I say I'll have a >> look at them later today. > In KDE we call this stuff Plasmoids or plasma widgets. > With Qt4 its already PITA to implement. > Please don't ask how hard it would be with enlightement... > But of course its a nice idea. > I guess daniele_athome has done some stuff into this direction. > With his mokosuit. > > best regards > leviathan > >
Yeh I like the plasmoids stuff and that's the kind of thing that I'd like to see, and I won't ask how difficult that is. Perhaps there is a way to make that stuff easier. I must have a look at Android and how it does it with apps. I did install mokosuit which did look great but for some reason when I ran it I could not get GSM coverage. I went back to SHR-U which is where I am at present. Of the top of my head I wonder how difficult it would be to build a Distro which used QT on top of FSO. The obvious reply to that is that Enlightenment is lighter then QT. Speaking of which my FreeRunner is a few years old and I need an upgrade in the open phone area. When is the new son of FreeRunner going to arrive? I do hope it's running on a Hummingbird processor, or whatever it's called. _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
