Re: [Familiar] Some problems installing v0.6-pre1 (in lieu of Bugzilla)

CC:ing GPE-list as I'm dealing with GPEish issues.

> * The biggest problem I had was that lots of ipkg's would die with
> a HUP signal. And in the case of an ipkg that depends on other
> packages (such as task-complete), this would cause the parent package
> to crap out at that point. I was confused why I got so little from
> "ipkg install task-complete" until I realized it had only gotten a
> little way into its list of subpackages. I finally tracked this down
> to reliance on GNU ps (rather than busybox' particularly limited ps)
> in /etc/menu-methods/gpe_appmgr - it was HUPping the wrong process.
> /etc/menu-methods/gtk-menu uses /bin/pidof, which works fine; changing
> /etc/menu-methods/gpe_appmgr to do the same should take care of it.
In that case, gpe-appmgr in familiar 0.6 needs updating; 0.08 (and I
think 0.07) used pidof. There's a newer copy of that file which fixes
another bug (if appmgr isn't running) which I'll release as 0.09
somewhen (probably soonish).

> * On a similar note, it would be nice to start xstroke along with
> gpe-login (and then kill it so another one can be started running
> as the user when they log in). Of course, I can do this myself
> in /etc/X11/gpe-login.setup, but it seems like it would be generally
> useful enough that it should be the default. No, you don't get
> your own custom xstroke alphabet as you're typing your password,
> but my touchscreen is jittery enough if I have a PCMCIA card in
> use (or, sometimes, the frontlight on) that it can be quite hard
> to hit the keys.
>
> (Hmmm, I just tried this - adding xstroke to gpe-login.setup - and
> it doesn't seem to display the xstroke window, so I can't turn on
> recognition. Not sure why.)
It's a dock, and there's nowhere to dock. It's probably possible to make
a dock as part of the gpe-login window though...

> * Is there any way to invoke gpe-login's ability to create a new user
> once you've already done so once? If so, it's not obvious. It
> would be great to either have a "New User" button, or a "Login as
> new user..." entry in the dropdown menu, for handhelds that are
> shared, or for when I hand mine to somebody to poke around with.
There should probably be a "Users" configuration applet really...

> * Sound recorded with gpe-soundbite is choppy when played back. The
> bits that are there are normal pitch, but it sounds like only about
> half the audio is there.
As others said, record to RAM not flash; 'keylaunch' should default to
recording to ~/ramdisk/ if you use the hardware button to start
gpe-soundbite.

> Again, thanks to all the people who've been working on v0.6 and on
> GPE!
>
> -Jay
mibus

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