Launcher v0.41 - New Release

[Al Johnson]

On Friday 30 October 2009, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
> On 10/30/09, Gand' <gandalf at viroenforce.com> wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > is it possible to define launcher as the default desktop application (ie
> > making it disappear from the task list)?
> > it's kind of annoying using it as an application ...
> > --
> >   Gand'
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Petr Vanek <vanous at penguin.cz> wrote:
> >>> >> it feels very responding, after all data is loaded. (most delays
> >>> >> seem to be caused by waiting for the opimd data).
> >>> >
> >>> >  Actually, the contacts are synced the first time only. The SMS's are
> >>> >typically not that many, but for opimd to go through all the calls,
> >>> >parse them and send them through the dbus really takes long. Since
> >>> >launcher doesn't know if you received calls when it wasn't running, it
> >>> >uses the time of the last call it has in its local db to query for
> >>> >newer calls from opim. Hence the delay. Typically, about 10 - 12 secs.
> >>> >Keeping a smaller log will speed up launcher.
> >>> >  I've been thinking of deleting all the calls older than those
> >>> > launcher
> >>> >displays - or some x days automatically. What do you think?
> >>>
> >>> if the number of days is configurable (possible to set to "unlimited"),
> >>> this would be very good.
> >>
> >> +1 for configurable number of days for the logs
> >>
> >> >Did you like the the fact that your contacts now show
> >> >when you contacted them last?
> >>
> >> Yes I like the fact that it shows when and how you contacted someone
> >> last, I have found this feature very useful already  thank you for
> >> adding it!
> 
> It should be possible. Launcher has to obtain X root window, just like
> openmoko-today2 was doing (someone reported recently that it works
> with Illume)

Interesting - I didn't know that would work with illume.