Where do I discuss these Ideas??

[Pieter Colpaert]

Hi!

I like your ideas too and I'd like to share my possible future project
too ;):

BASH-LIKE PHONE
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An openmoko distribution which uses FSO. The interface is just a shell
with on top of it a transparent keyboard (something like the
fatfingershell).
You can dail like this:
	pieterc at myphone$ dail +3248...... <RET>
or a contact:
	pieterc at myphone$ dail hom<tab> <RET> # = pieterc phone home

dail should be a python/bash/... script using the FSO api.
other easy to use commands I can think of: 
* addcontact contact #number# -group "friends"
* whereami (returns gsm locations and searches for cityname close to
that)
* sendtext "come home for dinner" son1 # sends sms to son1 (again with
autocompletion)
* wakemeup 7:30
* tail /var/mail #to read last text-messages

bash-commands or commands you're used to:
ls,cd,grep,awk,tail, ps, date, ...

and some ported apps: 
* nethack (yes, the game)
* links/lynx, 
* emacs (with erc)
* fortune (I like fortune a lot.)
* ...

I think it's extremely easy and fun to develop this idea. It would make
a perfect unix-lover-phone. We could hack on gnu bash to accomplish the
auto completion for contacts and other stuff.

Pieter

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:27 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> Awesome ideas! I guess this is the place to discuss these. I've also
> got some ideas, small changes to improve the usability etc. Some stuff
> that's distro-dependent, some other stuff.
> 
> Keep your ideas coming, pick one and show us how it works. It'll
> encourage the community, to me it looks like the -community list is
> slowing down, discussing mostly qtmoko-stuff..  So I warmly welcome
> all creative and crazy ideas!
> 
> 
> r
>