Graphical GPRS launcher for FSO-based distros
Valery Febvre
vfebvre at easter-eggs.com
Sun Dec 14 22:55:54 CET 2008
Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> I recently started using SHR and am very happy with it. GPRS worked
> nicely, but I had no good way of launching it. Yes, I know, there is
> the framework-settings utility, and it works, but it doesn't tell me
> the current status or give any feedback other than showing the button
> as pressed and sometimes the button would be pressed, yet the
> connection failed in the background.
>
> Anyway, I put together a small tool that uses Gtkdialog. Hopefully it
> could be useful to someone else:
>
> http://natha.nkinka.de/gprs_launcher.sh
>
> It seems to work nicely for me. It can be used to start the
> connection, stop the connection, or to simply find out the current
> GPRS status. It requires Gtkdialog which didn't have a package in the
> SHR repository, so I built an ipk from the latest sources. It's the
> first ipk I ever built, so it's surely of low quality in terms of
> metadata, but it works:
>
> http://natha.nkinka.de/gtkdialog-0.7.9_0.1_armv4t.ipk
Brillant idea. Nice to have gtkdialog, it can be an alternative to
python/gtk in some cases.
I found a small bug.
A </button> is missing in GPRS_UNKNOWN string.
--
Valéry
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