[pkg-fso-maint] install.sh - should it prepare the desktop more?

[Enrico Zini]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:02:55PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > >  - It does not adjust the layout for a landscape orientation
> > does not matter - to me at least.
> Just tried again - it works in landscape mode, it just looks unusual.

Fil told me there are things that in landscape mode you cannot do, like
the power menu shows up truncated, or some menu items end up past the
bottom of the screen.

> > >  - It does not control the GSM modem in any way, and a default system is
> > >    probably supposed to at least show the GSM status.
> > Hm. Fine as a start.
> I'm still using o-p-p's gsm plugin for that, but yes, some
> integration into zavai would be nice.

If it's just to turn gsm power on/off, then it's trivial to add a button
to zavai that calls a script with start or stop as a parameter.

The GPS on/off code does just that and can probably be used as a
template.

For extra kicks, it would be nice, then, to implement going through the
various d-bus motions of turning on this and that, so that the GSM
actually comes on and one can already run simple things like dumping the
SMS database, or running pppd.

> > > Also, I like to use as little of FSO as possible and as much of standard
> > > Unix as possible.
> > Nice. No desktop bus, then?
> 
> There's some dbus stuff in the code, not sure how much it is used
> currently.

In the past I used FSO, then I gave up but dbus is still around. It
is used to read battery status on desktop computers, for example, via
devicekit. It's good to have it around, as it's needed at least for
anything involving the GSM.

> > Please consider uploading to the pkg-fso repository if not to the main
> > servers. To my understanding it is just the individual users's
> > preference in the .xsession, so, it should not disturb at all.
> 
> Ack.

Note that given the kind of users zavai has, any out-of-the-box
configuration WILL make someone unhappy:

 - for gps: fso-gpsd or gpsd? omhacks or usaged?
 - for screen blanking: xset or usaged?
 - for suspend: pm-utils-light or fso?

Going all-FSO one would ask why not SHR. But at the same time, I feel
like I'm the only person so far using pm-utils-light to suspend/resume,
so how can we default to that?


Ciao,

Enrico

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