[shr-u] first impressions

Thomas Zimmermann zimmermann at vdm-design.de
Thu Sep 10 11:17:05 CEST 2009


Am Donnerstag 10 September 2009 11:00:59 schrieb arne anka:
> after having trashed my debian/fso for the moment, i decided to try out
> shr for a while until i get fso working again.
> while i try to read almost all mails on community, i can't claim to have
> followed the shr development that close.
> i got some first impressions i'd like to share -- if they are addressed
> already, simply ignore them, if i miss something point it out.
> 
> skin is illume-shr since i figured it would fit the freerunner's screen
> best.
> version is the image from august 8th with the matching kernel (what are
> the "modules" for?) without any updates so far, thus probably some of my
> complaints are addressed already.
> 
> - imo the default font is far to big -- i set it to "small" but got the
> distinct impression that illume crashes really often now, luckely enough
> mostly it recovers, i had to reboot only once or twice because it locked
> hard (fso still worked, since the screen blanked and the fr suspended).
> - with the default font the "x crashed" screen and some settings screens
> are unreadable since a lot of text is invisible
> - the font setting is a) to big for the screen and b) confusing. from the
> plethora of options i am unable to decide, which is the one i want (having
> very small columns with only the first letter visible does not help
> either) -- switching to landscape helped only marginally and left me with
> a corrupted screen after switching back to porttrait (coordinates where
> still landscape and the lower part of the screen, >480 were ... gaudy)
> - basic preview text"
> - scrolling in the settings app is cumbersome -- a) buttons are too close
> to the border, i live always in fear to accidently hit one without knowing
> what it will do, b) the "ok" button at bottom is to wide, more than once
> while scrolling i hit that "ok" button and was sent back to the main menu
> - i tried to minimize the font of the clock in the top shelf -- it is
> somewhat affected by the size setting of top shelf gadgets, but far from
> sufficient. while that signal level gadget and the battery gadget are
> minimized into illegibility, the clock still is big (about 4/5 of the
> shelf height, while the other gadgets are less than 1/2), overlays
> signal/battery and is cut off at the top slightly (since it is not
> vertically centered but aligns to the top). only setting the actual
> date/time is possible, font used or font size are not.
> - bottom shelf seems not to be affected by changing the shel size, it
> seems to retain the very same height as before, but the font displaying
> "loading" gets smaller
> 
> i think, i'll attempt an update tonight and see, what changes.

All thing's, expect for shr-settings, are e releated so they won't change 
(soon).
And shr-settings layout hasn't changed since 8.8. too, so an update won't 
change anything you mentioned.

Thomas



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