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

[Enrico Zini]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:44:31AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > What are you running, or even more importantly, what do you think
> > install.sh should prepare? I would like to collect your thoughts for a
> > while about what minimal desktop there could possibly be. 
> 
> Enrico's zavai might be nice (together with omhacks) but AFAICS it's
> in no repository ATM.

Thanks. Indeed it's what I use, it allows to run apps nicely, shows a
clock and calendar, handles screen lock and quickly looking at the clock
when locked, turns on/off the gps when using gpsd, shows a battery
monitor, provides a useful powerbutton-menu.

However, it is maintained in a works-for-me basis (because I have no
resource to do otherwise; however patches are welcome to make if
works-for-you-too), and it has a few issues that prevent it, I think,
from being a sensible default:

 - It does not adjust the layout for a landscape orientation
 - It does not control the GSM modem in any way, and a default system is
   probably supposed to at least show the GSM status.

Also, I like to use as little of FSO as possible and as much of standard
Unix as possible. This means that shutdown is done with "shutdown",
suspend is done with "pm-suspend" (using pm-suspend-light), hardware is
controlled with om. There is some code to use FSO if it is present, but
it is drafted and untested, because I have little interest on it.

I'd welcome patches to try to turn zavai into something a bit more
mainstream. It's rather fun to work on it.


Ciao,

Enrico

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