On Monday 18 January 2010, Nick wrote: > Hi there, > > After getting my new (2nd hand) freerunner back from the lovely > people at Golden Delicious, buzz-fixed and ready for action, I put > the latest (downloaded yesterday - 17 Jan) shr-testing (lite) image > onto it. I had spent a few days with an shr-unstable image before > xmas, but am still nice and new to the scene. > > First, I have to say, I'm really impressed and happy with it - > thanks so much to everyone who has worked on it, it's looking really > nice now.
It's nice to see someone happy ;-) > I made notes while I was trying it out last night of little things > which I think can be polished before the stable release. I'm very > happy to open bugs for these, but wanted to post them to the list > first, as I'm new here. There are lots of them, but only because I'm > being thorough and pedantic - overall I'm really impressed at the > quality of it all. Pedantic can be good! It reminds us of the little problems we have become accustomed to through daily exposure, but that should really be fixed. > I then tried the "GPS & M..." option. It would be nice if it was > renamed so the whole name was visible on a default install. Maybe > just GPS or Maps. The tangogps screen remained mostly white, I > presume because it failed to connect to any satallite (which is > fine, I don't care about it). But it would be much nicer to show a > message like 'searching for gps satallite', than show a plain white > screen. The lack of any map could also be because I'm using the lite > image - if so a message like 'map not available, install a map pack' > would be nice. tangogps downloads map tiles on demand, and afaik doesn't ship with any map tiles, so if you didn't have a network connection of some kind you would see a white screen even if you did have a gps fix. Showing a 'waiting for tile' placeholder image when no tile is available would be a useful enhancement. The status bar at the bottom shows detailed gps information, as well as when map tiles are being fetched. Most of the gps info is labelled, but the satellite info is not. Perhaps a 'Waiting for GPS fix' message would be better, like the 'No GPS found' message if GPS isn't available. You can request these enhancements upstream through: http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/Contact _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
