My Suggestions for FDOM

[Tim Dobson]

Hi there,
I've just moved to FDOM and I love it.

I have a few ideas to make it better - these aren't criticisms - it's 
great at the moment - these are just ideas to make it better - I don't 
expect anyone to agree about all of them, but these are suggestions...

# Midori(with the settings tweaked) is better for the screensize than 
minimo - I find it more usable

# accel-rotate program, or a way to start/stop it - this is a simple 
script to use the accelerometers to rotate with xrandr. It seems quite 
stable. An ipkg is available - http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Rotate

When I was running 22007.2, two cool programs I had from Angstrom were:

# Quasar - a x11 mplayer front end.
This is not perfect for the freerunner - it ideally needs some UI work 
doing (more than just setting tweaking), especially on it's fonts, 
however, i have launched mpg QVGA videos with it and watched them as 
well as listening to music with it.

# Claws Mail
A lightweight mail client - with a bit of UI tweaking from the view menu 
makes a completely usable mail client. Since we have qmail, I guess this 
is not necessary, but it's a thought.

# FBreader?
I would love to see an ebook reader but I think there are big dependency 
issues here :(

# Games
Personally, I would prefer to get rid of sudoku and to possibly to get 
kobodeluxe on there.
Though not ready yet, keeping an eye on 
http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/accelgame might be good.

# lint-wifi
Personally, I prefer lint-wifi to mofi. I really like being able to see 
the network info it displays (ie IP, DNS DDHCP) as it helps 
troubleshooting stuff when things dont work :P
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Lint-wifi

# wpa_supplicant.conf
Possibly modify the default the wpa_supplicant.conf to automatically 
connect to unencrypted wifi hotspots? :-/

I can't help too much - my stupid OM setup script - (givemeteh)apppznow 
is pretty much obsolete as a result of FDOM :) so I will help in the 
ways I can. I have joined the development list and considering all the 
spare high speed bandwidth I have, I've set up a mirror - 
http://files.tdobson.net/openmoko/freerunner/fadom/

At some point soon I'll get rid of the 'a' in "fadom" :P

Cheers for the good work, keep it up! :D

Tim

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