[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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