Zocalo Web Feed Reader (sharp Rom) Options

[koan]

Hi

Zocalo is a lightweight web feed reader for the Sharp ROM. It is designed for the PDA form factor, i.e. make sensible use of a small screen, use keyboard or stylus to navigate everything, don't use a lot of memory or disk space. It can handle RSS, RSS RDF and Atom.

I have been testing Zocalo for a few months now and it seems stable. There are a few minor issues that I want to improve in future releases and I have a lot of ideas for features that I want to implement. I plan to port to the other Zaurus Linuxes.

Please find more details at the Zocalo web page.

This image is linked to a screenshot of the latest version on my website:

[xamindar]

A couple issues I am noticing in this version. First of all (and this is probably only me experiencing it) I can not launch Zocalo from the icon, nothing happens. I have to run it from the qkonsole application by typing "zocalo". I have checked the launcher icon and it is set to run "zocalo" as its command so I have no idea why it doesn't work. I have tried removing and reinstalling zocalo 1.7 with no change.

Second issue is that it will try to update all feeds on its own without me telling it to. I haven't narrowed it down to the cause yet but it seems to try to update all feeds on its own constantly once I have suspended my zaurus and unsuspended it again. It gets quite annoying when there is no internet connection and it keeps popping up telling me the hostname of a feed failed to resolve.

All in all the program is very stable and all feeds are working perfectly. Thanks!

[koan]

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, both these things are "works for me" issues.

I can not launch Zocalo from the icon, nothing happens. I have to run it from the qkonsole application by typing "zocalo".

This must be something to do with the recent changes to get the main window to open before loading the data. Are you absolutely sure that the program does not start, did you check using ps or WhatsUpOnZ ?

Second issue is that it will try to update all feeds on its own without me telling it to.

I will try more soak testing. I can think of a few things I could change that may be related but I need a series of actions to reliably reproduce this bug.

[xamindar]

. Are you absolutely sure that the program does not start, did you check using ps or WhatsUpOnZ ?

Absolutely. Every time I tap the icon there is a refresh of the screen as if it tried to open for a split second and then nothing. Not running either.

I will try more soak testing. I can think of a few things I could change that may be related but I need a series of actions to reliably reproduce this bug.

I'll do some more testing to see if I can narrow down the cause and how to reproduce.



Edit: Oh yeah, and I forgot. It will not launch at all in portrate mode, not even from the console. I get the following in the console if I try to run it in portrate mode:

CODE

bash-2.05$ zocalo
QLinuxFbScreen::connect() disp spec Transformed:Rot270:Vga:0 != server di
sp spec Transformed:Rot0:Vga:0
Transformed driver cannot connect
Aborted

[koan]

Edit: Oh yeah, and I forgot. It will not launch at all in portrate mode

Try changing to portrait mode before running the terminal program.

[xamindar]

Try changing to portrait mode before running the terminal program.

That gets rid of the error message but it still will not open in portrait mode. But it does work in portrait if I first open it in landscape and then switch qtopia into portrait.