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

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:25:40 +0100, Enrico Zini 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.

Yeah, I remember that discussion on IRC.
I just tried again, and I see both the complete power menu and also
all other menus.
Maybe a problem with the window manager?
 
> > > >  - 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.

Ack.

Which reminds me of "my" wifi button -- I've finally pushed my git
branch:
git://git.toastfreeware.priv.at/zavai.git
(No new functionality compared to the patch I sent you already, just
keeping up with the master branch :))
 
> > > 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:

Sure, but I think Steffen was just thinking about having zavai as a
package and offering an additional optional task in install.sh.
 
> 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?

You're not :)


Cheers,
gregor
 
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