On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 2010-03-08, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> > It booted, I chose ILLUME 2 profile.
>
> I have not followed the development, so I don't really know. But I think
> that Illume2 is not really ready for usage. So it really should have
> been deleted this one before pushing a release. I have now moved illume2
> from the image to the feed (for shr-t only). Some say, it is usable
> already, and some don't apparently. Make your call, you can always
> switch by deleting your ~/.e directory.
>
> > Time required to boot it (not the first boot which is longer but
> > following boots):  ~1.30 minutes. Previous shr-t was 1.40.
>
> Shorter is better :)
> > The new SHR splash image is awesome. :)
>
> Good to hear
>
> > SHUT DOWN
> > I pressed the power button and then clicked on SHUTDOWN.
> > All went fine.
>
> Pfeew, lucky us.
>
> > APPS.
> > All worked fine (open, close, work, etc.) except settings and mokonnect.
>
> Glad to hear that most stuff worked.
>
> > MOKONNECT
> > It fails to scan networks.
> > I click scan but then nothing happens.
> > Closing the program caused the system to crash.
>
> It worked for my WEP WLAN most of the time, but it seems very brittle
> and fragile, I agree. Unfortunately there have been few commits to
> mokonnect during the last weeks/months(?). So if someone is looking for
> a task, this would be it: improve or rewrite the connman gui frontend
> (we are willing to switch to NetworkManager, or manual wlan handling
> too, if someone offers a better solution).
>
>
Maybe Nwa is the best one now... but uses Qt... maybe if someone is happy in
writing etk code, I can ask to Nicola if it's possible to separate the
"engine" from the UI.


> > SETTINGS
> >
> > I clicked SETTINGS and it said:
> > "phonefsod is not running"
>
> That sounds bad, real bad. Can you find out if phonefsod is really not
> running in the list of processes? Could you make phone calls?
>
> > I clicked START and then it crashed.
> That also does not sound very promising.
>
> > CONTACTS
> > - known problem about contacts not being refreshed automatically.
> > To see a new added contact you have to close and open the contact app
> > again.
>
> Yep, that is still a missing feature of the contact app, nothing SHR-T
> can do about, but I agree it would be nice to have that. Do bug
> mrmoku/Tasn to implement that :-).
>
> > DIALER
> > - if you digit a number and then you want to save it, the new contact
> > has only the phone field, you have to add the name field by yourself.
> > It would be better to create automatically both a number and an empty
> > name field.
>
> Yep, it would, but that is not SHR-T specific either. Do bug Tasn I
> believe to implement that :-).
>
> > SETTINGS - POWER
> > "Couldn't connect to FSO or phonefsod"
>
> Similar as above, is phonefsod really not running? In that case we have
> worse problems than the power settings.
>
> > SETTINGS - TIME AND DATE
> > After I first started the distro the clock was at 0:00
> > then after a while it took the time from, maybe gsm, don't know.
> > It showed 18:22 while the right time is 19:22.
>
> It gets the time from Network/GPS and the timezone from GSM. So if it
> really could not register to GSM, that would explain why your time zone
> is wrong.
>
> > I clicked on set time, set the right time, OK.
> > the clock automatically auto-set itself back at 18:22.
>
> No wonder, if it could not find out the correct time zone.
>
> > I have an android phone.
> > If I flash a new android rom inside the device and then I switch it on,
> > it is able to detect the right time and date the FIRST time and even
> > with gps switched off.
>
> YOur FR would be able to detect time (from an existing Internet
> connection) and timezone (from a registered GSM connection) too, even
> with GPS switched off. So, again, it looks as if your GSM connection was
> not working.
>
> > I think we should have it too.
> Theoretically, we have.
>
> > I will leave the code details to who is really more expert than me here.
>
> Ahh! That is the tiny part where we actually lack resources. :-) Most of
> us KNOW what things would need improvement, however there are few people
> capable and/or willing to step in and actually improve stuff. What you
> are doing here, is pretty valuable too, though. So keep on doing that.
>
> > I see many improvements both in boot time, better artwork and UI.
> Good, :-)
>
> > Please don't read this mail as a critic, use it as a suggestion to
> > improve.
>
> This stuff is really useful and important. THe only problem (as said
> above), is that we are aware of many (not all though) of these
> issues. All it takes, is someone to implement them...
>

I would like to give a hand but no idea where i can help... if I can learn
something like etk I'll do, but only if it's useful :P


>
> > At least I would like to thank all the developers who are spending their
> > time and lives on this project.
> You are welcome. We are happy about every happy user :)
>
> Sebastian
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