I recently tried different new images, the test-images from fredyd, and today one from florian boor he posted about on the mailing-list.


Is there any point to give feedback about these images?
eg. bugs i notice?

Is there a bug tracker or something one should use, or should i post here?

Most things will be about GPE or OPIE, so should i use these forums?
thomas

to clarify, for example here is what i found about florians image:

calibrate:
the crosshairs drawing deletes itselfes when they move from bottom right to left.

German Desktop:
in german, the folder "Utilities" is called "Einstellungen", should maybe be "Utilities, same as in english.

the app launcher in the menubar is missing, if i try to add it, it appears for less than one second, and disappears
(if i log in english, i have to add the launcher, and then it works)

Suspend:
the suspend button can wake the pad up, but not suspend it.

Suspend2:
"suspend" from the app launcher won't work (only if logged in with german)

ps: i have seen the handhelds.org bugzilla, but i think ppl like me better don't use it?

The suspend button is known to not work under Opie, and this is probably easy to fix (but I don't have time for this yet). Should work under GPE, though.

User interface issues (in Opie or GPE) are probably cross-platform and should be reported to the respective projects:
http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/ (Opie)
http://handhelds.org/~bugzilla/ (GPE)

f

no suspend under gpe, your newest image. so it is something else...
maybe a hw problem, unereased/defect flash... (is there a tool to test that? bootldr command? JTAG maybe? i have the port)
that could explain a lot, because i always had strange irregularities, back since the first 0.8.1 images, like problems after the first flashing, resolved after a 2nd try etc.


ok, to report the translation bug i go to bugzilla, reprt bug, i get an enormous list of "products". i have no clue if it is it gpe-dm gpe-conf-de... i am on an alien planet there...
i opened an account, and had a look at it, but i think that is really not the tool for me.

i think, i should be able to post the problem somewhere, and then someone who knows the system decides wether i am a damn fool, or if it is sth. to look into.
i hope you understand my point?

also, to clarify my first posts question,
your images, you write are test images, is this meant like betatesting, so u want me as user to test it, and maybe report something?

if there is any point to it, would be happy to do something like that, but for now, i am completely standing in the dark...
i miss a notification about new images, maybe what is new on them, etc.

see, i am not demanding something, i just try to ask, if my limited time/knowledge could be of any help.
but even the answers seem to presume more background knowledge than i have.
hope someone gets my point
thomas

In the latest images, the buttons work correctly under Opie.
The next set of images (which will be on monday on http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/opensimpad ) will also have an apm patch to fix the shutdown problem (where the simpad goes to sleep before shutting down).

fred