[debian] openmoko-panel-plugin 0.5

Fox Mulder Quakeman1 at gmx.net
Wed Nov 5 21:47:47 CET 2008


Sebastian Ohl wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> after the confusion on the last few days now i am happy to announce a
> new version of the openmoko-panel-plugin. the panel-plugin is a little
> peace of software to show and modify you the state of the hardware in
> you freerunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...). it should work with any gtk based
> windowmanager (i.e. xfce). 
> 
> you should now simply get the new version(0.5) through the debian
> repository(apt-get install openmoko-panel-plugin) or via
> http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openmoko-panel-plugin/
> 
> Changelog:
>    * this is a complete rewrite of the software. now it is much
>      cleaner and better to extend
>    * changed the distribution from unstable to pkg-fso
>    * new battery-icons
>    * extended suspend-behaviour:
>    *   on suspend: turning off wifi, bt, gps and sending
> dbus.preparesuspend
>    *     to gsm
>    *   on resume: restoring previous power-state of wifi, bt, gps
>    *     and sending dbus.prepareresume to gsm
>    * enabled shutdown-button in power-button-window
>    * new high-contrast version
>    * added configWriter to save changed configs to ~/.panel-pluginrc
>    * added config-area for selection of active icons
>    *   (order of icons is planned but not implemented yet)
>    * added new 'icon' for button-handling:
>    *   aux:
>    *     on short press: keyboard-toggle
>    *     on longer press (>2 sec) window (for now only with
> close-button) opens
>    *   power:
>    *     on short press: for now nothing happens
>    *     on longer press (>2 sec) window with buttons opens:
>    *       suspend (functional)
>    *       shutdown (for now non-functional)
>    *       close (closes window)
This is a really nice feature but it collides with the zhone power
button behaviour. When i run zhone and press the power button for >2s my
fr goes into suspend just a tick after it displays your new menu. After
i resume it still shows your menu and goes into suspend a second time.
After i shortly press power again it resumes and stays on while still
showing your menu. Don't know why it goes into suspend again after the
first resume.
So maybe it would be good to show your suspend/shutdown window after a
short press and not a >2s press?
For this button there is no problem with accidential pressing so i think
we need no time delay.


>    * added entries for buttons (aux, power)
>    * config-window
>    * some more gsmIcon updates:
>    *   corrected dbus-callback-function-header
>    *   added location area code (if available from dbus)
>    *   now choosing right icon for gsm turned off
>    *   corrections to gsmStatus-update work properly
>    *   added some try-blocks around file-io to prevent IO-timeouts
> killing
>    *     main-thread
>    * added battery-notification
>    * update to BatteryWindow to reduce resource-usage when BatteryWindow
> inactive
>    * extended BatteryIcon to show more battery-status in a window and
> setup
>    *   chargingMode (100, 500, 1000mA)
>    * added BrightnessIcon and corrected some threading-related stuff
>    * hold the aux button for more than 2 seconds to enable/disable
> keyboard
>    * extended GSM-Icon to show network-status
>    *   (un)registered
>    *   provider
>    *   signal-strength
>    *   cellid
>    * for tooltip and notification
>    * made notification optional - when python-pynotify is installed
>    * keyboard icon
> 




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