Guylhem Rom: First Qtopia 1.5 Release Options

[guylhem]

Hello

The first "end user ready" release is being uploaded. It features a nice GUI and should work out of the box (no command line special knowledge should be necessary)

Get it on: http://externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom/

The only bugs I could find (and honnestly, they are not serious drawbacks) are:
- some remaining keyboard remapping (power/record are used like a jogdial, but should also be able to start applications - they can't yet)
- the network application refuses to add new interfaces. So I replaced the usual netsetup by a different one I compiled and I created a "Get online" icon, which can be used to create a new connection, before using the network application (that's the only if you really want to use the old one called netsetup.old). I have no idea why it doesn't work :-( Trolltech version works fine, Sharp doesn't. Any help would be welcome

If you feel like giving a try, your feedback would be very welcome. What you get :
- a polished qtopia 1.5 rom loaded with applications
- a cleaned filesystem (no symlinks everywhere)
- 24 Mb free to add your own applications (I doubt you'll need them - it's *loaded* with applications, basically every app I use is there, PIM, Hancom, Opera, etc etc.)

What's new since last version :
- added qtopia 1.5 interface
- made sure it worked well
- fixed the zoom/systemtime bugs reported in the standalone qtopia packages.

What's missing :
- special modules used by special card. If you have such a card, please tell me or adf so we can compile your missing module for you

To install it, simply restore the nandbackup. That's all. On reboot, you may see jffs2 errors - that's normal. It's just very verbose. You are presented with a login: if you log in, qtopia won't start. Press home twice to open another console. Press userkey/light to move between consoles. You must log out of every shell so Qtopia may start 30 seconds later. However the keyboard may not be usable if you didn't return to the first console. So if you want to use qtopia, simply don't log in.

Anyway, let's start the beta test ! I'm also preparing a dedicated feed for the ROM. If you have a .ipk that works fine and you think should be interesting to other people, please send me a URL where I can download it and add it to the feed.

If you think some application should be included by default, please tell me too. I'd like to create a "different" rom, very user oriented. Everything should be simple and work out of the box - the apps. I did choose tend to do that.

Guylhem

[rip]

well, sorry, windows typology rests....

icon name under settings is "software"
when installing anything cliked, only one choice offered: internal.

also gulhem, i have an air cable, do you know how to configure that?

[adf]

if you are in a console in qtopia there is, effectively, only one /tmp...the one inside QtPalmtop.rom

as to the applet thing....if they don't come up in add/remove, you could try subapplet? a I don't know it that handles uninstalling, though.

the gui packagemanager internal only option is a kind of side effect of this setup, imho. because QtPalmtop.rom can be anywhere (any one try it over nfs yet?--might be an interesting soution to situational work/home/school demands) it is difficult to say it should definitely look outside itself. I suspect, though that you could edit ipkg.conf and do install -d from commandline.
Personally I prefer having all of th z-rom stuff onboard. it lets me mix and match cf and sd stuff freely without concern that i'm scrambling my sytem. (the tmp and var thing should probably be scripted, though) zright now, if I want something more than qtopia ioffers I use pocketworkstation on my sd--all self contained as well. (hmmmm the possibilites for cheap arm based desktops with mobile self contained os that can be transferred to other devices or used as thin clients.....)

[adf]

IRK.

the "a" key on my ir keyboard does not work. the other keys all do. the "a" key sends ???? to irk--which i take to mean that it sends something, but irk has no idea what. I suspect this is a by-product of the keymap fix. Any ideas for a fix for this? maybe a boot time thing that connects the ir kbd pre qpe? out of my depth here, obviously

USB

hid, usbmouse and usb kbd don't seem to autoload...and loading them after booting into Qtopia is a pain. (didn't bother w/ the mouse)

since no one seems to own 6k N models, at the very least both usb (with kbd mouse and storage support --including the toshiba module--don't know if you did that or not, just thought it should be mentioned)
and wireless should probably be compiled in. the extra kernel size isn't much and the result is good.


Qtopia 2.1
lpotter says 2.1 is sharp package compatible.. ( I was just pestering him about this... see the qtopia 2.1 available soon thread) and has a sane dir structure to boot. It warrants more investigation, maybe?
Maybe 2 rom versions? a qt2.1 "sharp" and a qt 2.1 "floating point" down the road?

Idle speculation
any possibility of a pdaX version?