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Gemini PDA - Android / Can't search contacts for names

« on: May 30, 2019, 12:34:48 am »

Hmm, odd. I just tried to replicate this bug in Phone/Search and when I typed in "hann" , "Hannah" came up, which is the contact I'm looking for.

In fact, the search in Phone is better than the one in Contacts, since "hannah" will bring every contact that mentions her, even in Notes.

I wonder what's going on...

[I'm running Nougat]

Jake

What method are you using to store your contacts, is it WebDAV?

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Gemini PDA - Android / Android 8.1 for the Gemini to be available later this week

« on: May 26, 2019, 10:38:37 pm »

Thank you for the advice, Eldkatten. I will hold off for now.

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Gemini PDA - Android / Android 8.1 for the Gemini to be available later this week

« on: May 26, 2019, 09:52:24 am »

Just noticed on http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Main_Page that 8.1 is also available for the Wifi-only model; partition tool updated, also with dual/triple boot.

Will have to try, soon.

I just got a firmware update notification and am afraid it would cause me to not have a rooted device any more. Has anyone who's rooted ever done the 8.1 automatic upgrade?

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Gemini PDA - Android / Hotkeys for App Launching?

« on: May 26, 2019, 09:48:07 am »

Hi there, I just randomly saw this thread a long time after it was fresh.

EKH cannot launch specific files but it is definitely capable of being set up for switching and launching applications.

Not every Android app seems able to completely remember its state when switched back via this method but it works pretty well.

To do more advanced items, you might try Tasker. I don't have any experience with it, however.

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Gemini PDA - Android / Can't search contacts for names

« on: May 23, 2019, 10:26:40 pm »

I've had this bug for a while but never wrote it down until now.

On my Android side, I have DAVx5 set up to synchronize contacts via WebDAV. They all appear in the list, however when I am in the phone dialer and type in a person's name, it literally never returns the results I expect.

So, for example, if I have a contact named Zirgo Fleham, and I type "zirgo," it will not show the contact in the search results. Oftentimes, it returns names that do not even have the search string in them.

This bug only happens in the Phone dialer, however. If I search in the Contacts app, then things work as expected.

I downloaded third-party dialer apps and they don't have this problem, only the default Dialer.

I just got a replacement Gemini and the bug exists on this new unit. I'm not running 8.1 though since I want to keep my root setup for now.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Final call for TP3

« on: February 02, 2019, 10:40:13 am »

Any chance you could fix the KDE keyboard situation?

It's soooo much more powerful and better suited for the high-dpi screen than LxQT. Among its many advantages, you can actually use the taskbar. Icons can be probably sized as well.

I've got no issues with DPI scaling on lxqt, it works excellently

I have the following env vars set:

GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.75
GTK_CSD=0
GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=1
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
XCURSOR_SIZE=48

And xdefaults

Xft.dpi:     192
Xcursor.size: 48

And 96 dpi set in lxqt

Basically all from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

Have you ever tried KDE Plasma compared to LXQT? It is about 3 or 4 times more useful. All of those settings can easily be adjusted with a GUI, for instance.

The Gemini is more than capable of running it, except the keyboard doesn't work correctly.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Final call for TP3

« on: January 30, 2019, 08:49:13 am »

Any chance you could fix the KDE keyboard situation?

It's soooo much more powerful and better suited for the high-dpi screen than LxQT. Among its many advantages, you can actually use the taskbar. Icons can be probably sized as well.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / KDE Plasma

« on: December 19, 2018, 10:49:10 pm »

I pretty much gave up using Linux on my Gemini since I now use it as a primary device and need apps like OneNote and aCalendar and synchronization with my Samsung watch.

Has anyone tried KDE on it lately? Last time I used it, most of the keys didn't work properly.

If thing have improved, I might reflash and try again.

Kind of sad that this thread has almost 200 views but no progress to report.

KDE, GNOME, and XFCE are so much better tham LxQT. Am I the only one who misses them?

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Gemini PDA - Android / New Gemini App: Airmail. Looks nice.

« on: December 19, 2018, 10:17:49 pm »

I can certainly understand that given the Gemini is meant somewhat as a Psion replacement it is attractive to try and replicate and improve on the simplicity and functionality of the Psions.  What might have been, indeed, without the Motorola fiasco.   This explains Agenda and Data but rather less so for Airmail as Psion did not really get into e-mail.

Ah ?
I actually used the e-mail application a lot on the 5mx (with the brand new Nokia 7110 over IR) and it only got better on the netBook, with the larger screen, keyboard and wifi.

I actually used the netBook well past its 'due time', up until 2016. It was very good to produce a quick e-mail.

Airmail reminds me of this. Fold the device open and just start typing. The interface is rather similar to the Psion application, but this one can actually read full HTML e-mails and their attachments.

I stand corrected.  I never used the email with my Netbook as I did not have a portable modem.  You beat me in using a physical Netbook as the various machines I had (from Ebay etc) kept going wrong due to the (dreaded) screen cable becoming damaged.  I probably stopped in 2014.   I am still using the Emulator version for Agenda and abp5 the banking program but really should stop copying the entries to Google and thence to K9 or Airmail every so often but take the plunge and give up Agenda - much as I like its ease of use.

I don't have time to find the citation but I've read that Janko Mrsic-Flogel, the Planet Computers founder, was also involved in the development of the Psion email app.

Hopefully, he'll get Airmail's awful cursor movement keys fixed stat. Currently:

• Pushing Ctrl left or right arrow changes the font sizes instead of moving word by word to left or right
• Pushing Ctrl backspace shrinks the font size of the message

These are non standard behaviors that are not present in K9 Mail. They make composing emails in Airmail absolutely dreadful.

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Gemini PDA - Android / New Gemini App: Airmail. Looks nice.

« on: December 13, 2018, 10:21:15 pm »

For the life of me, I don't know why Planet is wasting money on developing these apps...

One reason is probably so they can offer better support for keyboard shortcuts. As the keyboard is pretty much their claim to fame, they probably want to make the most out of it.  Also, as K-9 mail is a community project, Planet Computers may want to maintain a fork of their own, giving them more wiggle room, should some change in K-9 cause issues with Gemini and/or Cosmo devices. Perhaps, but that's just my guess, Planet Computers intends to contribute back to the official K-9 too, because it could be a reasonable thing to do, if you intend to recommend (a version of) it to your customers.

Another reason, maybe, could be that Planet Computers wants to have a set of productivity apps that are know landscape-friendly, visually reasonably consistent and uses the same keyboard shortcuts for the same purposes. Rather than coding it ALL from scratch, it could make sense to, where available, create tweaked forks of existing open-source programs. Now, again, I'm guessing here, just to show what the thinking COULD be like.

There's nothing wrong per se with that idea but it seems such projects should have lower priority than getting Linux fully operational, updating Android, and properly getting Lineage and Sailfish off the ground. LXQt is severely limited compared to GNOME and KDE. You still can't use the earpiece in Linux, etc.

K9 actually has all the same keystrokes,  including Ctrl+Backspace to erase the previous word. In Airmail, this inexplicably changes the display font size.

I would much rather have fewer Planet software products if the ones that were released were of better quality.

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Gemini PDA - Linux / KDE Plasma

« on: December 11, 2018, 10:08:12 am »

I pretty much gave up using Linux on my Gemini since I now use it as a primary device and need apps like OneNote and aCalendar and synchronization with my Samsung watch.

Has anyone tried KDE on it lately? Last time I used it, most of the keys didn't work properly.

If thing have improved, I might reflash and try again.

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Gemini PDA - Android / New Gemini App: Airmail. Looks nice.

« on: December 11, 2018, 09:58:10 am »

For the life of me, I don't know why Planet is wasting money on developing these apps. They're all buggy and most don't really add anything that other apps don't already do.

They should be spending their time on getting getting LineageOS properly working, making KDE/GNOME function normally and fixing the broken Linux cellphone support.

Or how about fixing the App Bar so it shows running apps and uses icon themes? There are tons of more useful and unique software projects Planet could be embarking on.

This app also is not available in the Yalp store, at least for me.

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Gemini PDA - Android / Screenshots of Gemini Home Screens

« on: November 25, 2018, 10:59:03 am »

Here's mine. I'm using Nova Launcher with a horizontal layout.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Big announcement on 5th November

« on: November 05, 2018, 04:39:08 am »

Gemini all the way for me as well.

The backlit keyboard is a nice touch, but as far as I'm concerned it could never replace my main phone (and to perfectly honest I can't figure myself walking around with a thing that size stuck to my ear   ); my Gemini does well everything I need it to do, and I too just hope this new product won't put the Gemini out of business.....

I hope they at least made the keys quieter and easier to press.

That and the half finished Linux support are my biggest gripes. No one likes LXQt compared to GNOME or KDE. Xfce would be bare minimum.

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Gemini PDA - General Discussion / Big announcement on 5th November

« on: November 05, 2018, 04:31:09 am »

Why put a camera on it but no flash?

Why the ugly triple colors on the back?

Why all the buttons to ruin the clean lines?

No thanks.