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

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

Enrico Zini wrote:
> 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.

great!  Can one change from one app to the next?

> 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
does not matter - to me at least.

>  - 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.

> Also, I like to use as little of FSO as possible and as much of standard
> Unix as possible.
Nice. No desktop bus, then?

> 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.
Ok.

> I'd welcome patches to try to turn zavai into something a bit more
> mainstream. It's rather fun to work on it.
Well, much hunch is that this very worthwhile to investigate further.
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.

More important to me is that I see many individuals becoming more
interested approaching phone programming in an environment that is more
UNIXish and as such more easy for them to understand.

Many greetings

Steffen