On 3/21/06, Danny Milosavljevic <danny.milo at gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 19.03.2006, 23:05 +0100 schrieb Lionel Dricot (aka > Ploum): > Comments about the wiki page: > > > **Suggestion : make the hardware home key acts as a shift key when in > keyboarding mode** > > Having strange second uses for well-defined hardware keys doesn't sound > like a good idea. What about putting the dot on the same mode (side) as > the numbers instead ;) well, not as default of course. but it would be so easy and convenient! the shift key is far left, wich is very difficult for my right hand. > > I like very much the current idea with left panel, top panel-window > bar. It works and I think we should port this idea to our average > desktop. I simply wish I could customize the left panel and the menu. > For now, all installed programs are in the same submenu. I wish I could > access GPE-calendar quickier than Scummvm... > > I agree that the submenu where the application entry is put into should > be freely choosable by the packager (who best sticks to the desktop file > standard for the actual category names he uses, of course :)). indeed :-) > > > Why can't I have access to the MMC card when USB is plugged ? > > You (actually your PC) _has_ access to the MMC card, I thought that was > the whole point (apart from for flashing) but why is concurrent access not possible? > > Why can't I have access to the system memory ? > > As in RAM? or as in user-useable flash? I guess the latter uses a > filesystem type MsWindows does't know (if you use that, just guessing > here) - not that I tried, actually I'd just scp it over the net and > spare myself all the work of plugging > usb/mounting/copying/unmounting/unplugging :) I'm using Ubuntu only ;-) Ispeak of course about the user flash. > > The whole email reader is simple and efficient. It just takes too long > to start and why the hell does it sort mail in chronological order > *BEFORE* sorting them in anti-chronological order like I want ? It > would be better to simply load, at first, the last twenty emails so I > can already browse them. > > I don't quite follow you... you mean it doesn't scroll to the end of the > list (= newest posts) by default when app is started? > > Reversing the well-known chronological order of > newer-things-are-below-older-thing to something else doesn't seem to > make sense to me (think about it, even a Terminal has newest entries at > the bottom...) > > Or did I misunderstand you? I put newer mail above (anti-chronological order). but when I start the mail reader, he reads all mail once and display them in chronological order before redisplaying them as I want. quite a waste of ressources... > > > I hope to seen soon the ogg player and the mp3 one merged. > > yeah, that is: ogg played by gstreamer and mp3 played by gstreamer as > well :) > > > And why not also the video player ? Mini-totem anyone ? > > What do video and audio players have in common (from a users point of > view, not the developers point of view)? > > Voice recorder: Still missing. I hope to see something so I can record > my ideas in speex or ogg format. It would be damned cool as the 770 > already has a microphone. > > Really? might be something I'd like to try hack on... any details? can a > normal OSS dsp be used to read from it? :) > > I remember a talk on maemo-developers that involved an external mike > faintly, but nothing much about the internal one ... Tommi showed it to me at FOSDEM. it's the little hole next your power socket. I don't know nothing much than that ;-) > > > Terminal: Cannot live without it. The annoying bit is that the custom > applications are not in the $PATH. that's really annoying. > > Tommi Komulainen hinted at FOSDEM 2006 that /var/lib/install will be > gotten rid of soon :) there is hope... We were in the same room then :-) but I hadn't a 770 at this time so I didn't understand all. > > > Shall I install dropbear or openssh ? Which one is better ? It would > be cool to ssh from my PC to the 770 and vice-versa :-) > > I never used dropbear before... I think I heard rumours that X > forwarding is an openssh extension only... not useful for the nokia 770 > though... so I'd use dropbear because it's probably smaller (if X > forwarding support isn't in it, it should be smaller :)) > > Hope that helps. > > cheers, > Danny > thanks you a lot for your long answer. very interesting. When typing this reply, I wished there was a way to lock the virtual keyboard open. oh, and gmail is not very 770 friendly ;-) cheers lionel
