testing Litephone, new phone interface

Michal Brzozowski rusolis at poczta.fm
Fri Aug 14 17:05:29 CEST 2009


Oh, you don't need the script anymore. This issue happens when frameworkd
hasn't powered up yet (it takes a few minutes).

Check the newest litephone package from http://pvtrace.com/litephone/

It should wait for frameworkd to start up.

2009/8/14 Dan Staley <daniel.l.staley at gmail.com>

> Hi, I decided I wanted to try out litephone on the latest SHR-U and I
> followed the steps above.  However whenever I run the gsm registering script
> I run into problems.
>
> The first time I run it, I get:
> Enabling GSM for ever
> /org/freesmartphone/Usage: SetResourcePolicy failed:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply
> Turning antenna on
> /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device: SetAntennaPower failed:
> org.freesmartphone.Resource.NotEnabled
> Registering
> /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device: Register failed:
> org.freesmartphone.Resource.NotEnabled
>
>
> And then any time after that, I get:
> Enabling GSM for ever
> /org/freesmartphone/Usage: SetResourcePolicy failed:
> org.freesmartphone.Usage.ResourceUnknown
> Turning antenna on
> /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device: SetAntennaPower failed:
> org.freesmartphone.Resource.NotEnabled
> Registering
> /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device: Register failed:
> org.freesmartphone.Resource.NotEnabled
>
>
> I assumed that perhaps I just needed to restart frameworkd...but that didnt
> help.  Has anyone else experienced this?  Am I just missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> -Dan Staley
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Michal Brzozowski <rusolis at poczta.fm>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I gave it a try and wrote an FSO based phone app in Qt. It's using the new
>> PIM service, and since that's not completely stable yet, there are a few
>> problems. I'm releasing this anyway, to help test FSO, and meanwhile get
>> some feedback on the gui and general idea. Consider it an alpha release.
>> There might be little bugs here and there.
>>
>> The basic idea on the GUI is that it is packed in one window, the various
>> 'modules' (contacts, messages, dialer, etc) placed into tabs. No popup
>> windows.
>> Screenshot:
>> http://pvtrace.com/litephone/litephone1.png
>>
>> The best way to use it on SHR is to stop ophoned, turn on the GSM service
>> and register by hand, wait for some initialization in opimd, and then start
>> the phone app. Technically you can just start the phone, and it will init
>> GSM, but due to a bug in opimd, messages and contacts will start duplicating
>> when you exit and run it again.
>>
>> The steps:
>>  - Install all the ipks from http://pvtrace.com/litephone/ (qt deps and
>> phone app itself).
>>  - Run /etc/init.d/x-something stop
>>  - Move /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80ophonekitd somewhere else (like your home
>> dir).
>>  - Run the script http://pvtrace.com/litephone/gsm_register.sh (this will
>> enable gsm and register, and will stay like that until you turn it off by
>> hand)
>>  - Run /etc/init.d/x-something start
>>  - Get the style definition http://pvtrace.com/litephone/style_sheet.conf
>>  - Run 'phone style_sheet.conf'
>>
>> If you don't see your contacts and messages, try exiting and running
>> again. opimd does some initialization upon GSM start that takes 1-2 minutes
>> and currently there is no signal implemented that notifies about it.
>>
>> Making and receiving calls and messages should work without problems. You
>> can add, edit and delete contacts, but deleting messages doesn't work
>> because it's not implemented in opimd yet.
>>
>> Scrolling lists (contacts, etc) is done by click, not by drag (I hate
>> drag-scrolling). Contacts have a smaller "sparse" list on the right that
>> lets you scroll faster.
>>
>> The way composing new messages works is when you hit 'text' or 'reply'
>> somewhere and a 'compose' tab is not created yet, it creates one with an
>> appropriate recipient. If one is open already, it just adds to the list of
>> recipients. So the way to send a message to multiple recipients is to keep
>> going back to Contacts for example, and add them one by one. While it's not
>> very intuitive, it's simple and it works :-)
>>
>> I hope you have fun
>> Michal
>>
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