[Gta04-owner] [Community] What software are we still missing on GTA04 distributions?

[Neil Jerram]

Hi Robin,

Some comments on a few of your QtMoko points...

"Robin Seidel" <spielraum at web.de> writes:

> Make more of the whole screen size: The freerunner screen is already
> quite small compared to other smartphone screens which makes it
> difficult for finger navigation. The rims of the case make this even
> worse. So reducing the top bar and maybe swap the bottom bar for
> something like a swipe towards the bottom corner would allow to use
> much more of the screen.

You may like to try other themes than the default "finxi" one.  For
example, MokoFaen has a thinner top bar.

> wifi setup like iliwi = search for networks -> click on one -> choose hex or txt and if it's preferred -> done
>                         on next startup if it finds a preferred network it will automatically connect.
>                         nice simple clean interface

> wifi like the settings buttons on android home screen which one can
> add: you press the wifi button and if it finds a preferred network it
> will connect and the icon changes to show you that you're only (in
> comparison to iliwi there is no application runngin for wifi on a
> separate window)

Agreed, QtMoko's wifi setup screens are just crazy at the moment.  I'll
work on this eventually if no one else does it first - but I expect
there's a good bit of work to do first to understand why the screens are
currently arranged as they are.

> have nerongps run in fullscreen.  as nerongps already checks if it can
> update the time at startup, make this "correct time" available to the
> system (nerongps has the right time, but if I close it the system is
> still on the wrong time)

Upstream NeronGPS has quite a bit of interesting-looking development -
including fullscreen - that hasn't yet been pulled into QtMoko.  Someone
might take a look at that...

> make it even easier for less skilled people to participate (more svg
> based stuff like the keyboards)

What is the documentation like for that kind of activity?  (I don't know
because I work out anything I need by looking at the codebase.)

> have a similar file to the .desktop files to tell the app to use a
> landscape keyboard if it the screen is actually in landscape
> mode.

Why would this be in a .desktop file?  Surely you'd always want a
landscape keyboard if the screen is in landscape mode?

> portrait and landscape mode are best used with different numbers
> of rows, so it would be nice if the app just checks if the screen is
> in landscape mode and if so if there is a specific keyboard for this
> mode available.

Didn't Adrien Dorsaz already do that?

Regards,
        Neil