[shr-u] first impressions

arne anka openmoko at ginguppin.de
Thu Sep 10 11:00:59 CEST 2009


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.



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