Re: Familiar 0.8.4-rc2.3 feedback.

(NOTE: cc'ing to opie-devel, where it belongs as well)

Am Donnerstag, den 01.06.2006, 15:50 +0300 schrieb Victor Sergienko:
> Battery discharged, Ipaq went down. DrawPad document was not saved.
> DrawPad should really store its documents when user adds new page. 

Good idea. In that case only the last page would be lost.

> ESPECIALLY because there's no "Save" button.
> 
> DrawPad requires pressing the screen little too hard, otherwise it makes 
> breaks in lines drawn. I'm afraid for the screen sensors wearing out.
> It could have a interpolation mechanism to continue the lines, or just 
> increase sensitivity.

That's a kernel problem.

> Touchpad points don't work as cursor keys. They did in GPE.

What are touchpad points?

> I changed backlight via taskbar applet. Then, when I awoke Ipaq, 
> backlight went to maximum.

That's a kernel problem. Sane backlight drivers should restore the last
value before sleeping.

> I cannot change sound volume in taskbar applet and Opie-player.

Are you using alsa or oss on that device?

> Biggest problem: screen resolution.
> hx4700 has VGA, and its default settings are for QVGA.
> I increased font size and icons size twice and it became OK.
> But still many applications' windows are too small.
> Soma applications scale, but are launched unmaximized, to quarter of a 
> screen size.

That's a qte and opie problem which could easily fixed in OE. It needs
properly configuring qte and opie default sizes like we do for Zaurus
VGA devices.

> My language setup has only English and Russian, but taskbar layout 
> switcher cycles much more languages (charsets?).

Multikey isn't related to language settings, Multikey always comes with
all charsets - that's probably something we chould change ?

> When screen is rotated, OS keyboard (multikeyboard) is misplaced, it 
> sits too high.

D'oh. Have a screeny?

> OS keyboard could have a cursor keys when in landscape mode.

?

> OS keyboard is misplaced in 640x480 and 480x640 resolutions.

Screeny ?

> Battery indicator applet gives "Failure": "Could not open file".

That's a ODevice problem. Someone needs to make a patch to add hx4700 to
the Opie device abstraction layer.

> Opie Reader keeps offering to map keys every time.
> Opie Reader doesn't redraw the entire screen after pressing "Close" button.

Right.

> Opie Player doesn't show Russian letters in file names and maybe MP3 
> tags. I wish I could set up a encoding for MP3 tags.
> Opie Player doesn't play music to speaker when no headphones are there.
> 
> 
> I wish for more usable OS keyboard that can, say, switch modes from 
> alphadigital to digital-cursor, can switch keyboard layout itself, etc.

Point taken. Thanks for your feedback!

-- 
Regards,

Mickey.
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