Pdaxrom: The Best Of Both Worlds?

[ZDevil]

Hi,

After trying out X RC11 for a week, I finally feel like settling down with X and is about to part the good old Sharp ROM (used for more than 1.5 years) on my C1000.    

My migration from Sharp ROM to X is almost complete:

(Sharp ROM app => X app)
PIM: Qualendar => fltdj (super-cool app, a must try!)
Office: Hancom Office, Textmaker => Abiword, gnumeric
Text-editor: ZEditor, Tree!TextQT => SciTE, gpe-edit
Planner: StageOne => tuxcards (bravo!)
Note-taking: FreeNoteQT => FreeNoteQT (Yes! Found it here: http://wing.nagaokauniv.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?files )
Webbrowser: Netfront, Opera => Firefox, Dillo
Ebooks: Justreader, Opie-reader, QPDF, Netftont => Justreader, Opie-reader (in unstable feed), X PDF, Dillo
Simple database: portabase => portabase (in unstable feed)
Multimedia: Music player, mplayer + Kino2 => XMMS, mplayer, VLC
File manager: Tree!ExplorerQT => Rox filer, Xfe
UPDATE:
Dictionary: zbedic => stardict (even better dictionary selections)

Yet to resolve/test:
Email: Qtmail => sylpheed (thanks, adf)
Gaming: SNES9x => stable X version?

With a smooth migration pdaXrom gives me the best of both worlds -- full PDA functionalities + versatile laptop-like capabilities.  

I'm surprised to find that X runs the apps faster than in Sharp ROM.

You've done a very nice job,  Laze & sashz & the rest of the pdaXrom dev team!  Please keep it up!    

Just curious to know the migration experience of other users here.

[adf]

sylpheed is a really nice, snappy mail client. I think you'll like it.

[ZDevil]

sylpheed is a really nice, snappy mail client. I think you'll like it.
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Thanks!  By the way what do you think is the best way to migrate the email data from Qtmail to sylpheed or other X email clients?  
 

[adf]

sylpheed is a really nice, snappy mail client. I think you'll like it.
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Thanks!  By the way what do you think is the best way to migrate the email data from Qtmail to sylpheed or other X email clients?  
 
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migration isn't my strong suit.  I tend to just re-enter data and hang on to my config files. There might be some how-to stuff up... the weak link is going to be qtmail, imho.  Sylpheed has been around as a desktop mail client for a while and should be pretty well documented

[scheck.r]

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ZDevil,

Many, many thanks for providing a link to FreeNoteQT, it was one of my favorite app on SharpRom.

May I ask you how do you get mplayer running ?
and VLC ?
I have dependencies problems but don't know how to solve them

Thanks

[ViV]

Ebooks

FBreader (avalaible in qt/embedded, qt and gtk versions):
http://only.mawhrin.net/~geometer/zaurus/fbreader/

[scheck.r]

Wow,

I just tried Xpaint from http://wing.nagaokauniv.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?files
It's wonderful, powerful, fast. A MUST

You need to install libtiff from rc11 feed

FreeNoteQT works very well also

Many thanks to ZDevil for the finding

SL-C1000 user

[scheck.r]

Yet to resolve/test:
Email: Qtmail => sylpheed (thanks, adf)

You can also try OM-PI from the full KDE-PIM suite available for rc11 at
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...st=240&p=97006&

Enjoy.

[ZDevil]

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ZDevil,

Many, many thanks for providing a link to FreeNoteQT, it was one of my favorite app on SharpRom.
May I ask you how do you get mplayer running ?
and VLC ?
I have dependencies problems but don't know how to solve them
Thanks
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You're welcome.  FreeNoteQT was once a stopper for me to switch to X as well.   Now it runs even faster and smoother on X.  
To be honest I don't have time yet to test mplayer and VLC.  I just installed them without glitches and no trobule with dependencies so far.  Well, I'm not so used to watching movies on that tiny screen (but doing that instead on my iBook 12"  ).

I tried to run VLC once.  Nothing happened when launched with the icon.  Then I ran it in the terminal and a whole dazzling bunch of options pour out to the screen, and no error message.  Yet to find some time to study the documentation later.

Thanks scheck.r for pointing out the link to the latest kdepim package.  Hopefully it can live up to my expectations.

Also thanks Viv's suggestion of FBreader.  But it seems Opie-reader fares better in terms of encoding handling and font choices.  

Now my humble plan is to turn my C1000 with X into an extension of my  iBook 12" (yet another humble home workstation), by running (roughly) the same/equivalent set of unix/linux applications on both.

[sashz]

for multimedia on C1000/3100- please wait new rc , wich will soon  there will updated stuff for mplayer/vlc/sdl with native overlay support and iwmmxt optimization.

[badog]

really?

[scheck.r]

for multimedia on C1000/3100- please wait new rc , wich will soon  there will updated stuff for mplayer/vlc/sdl with native overlay support and iwmmxt optimization.
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I am eager to test that.

Talking about packages, we have lots of packages working very well on rc11 but they are neither in the feed neither in the unstable feed. Like [a href=\"http://https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12034&st=240&p=97006&]KDE-PIM 2.2.3[/url] , FreeNoteQT, Xpaint, FBreader
I know it's not your job but if you tell me how to upload them in the unstable feed I will do it.

Many thanks. It's a pleasure to donate to the PdaXrom team, each RC just amazes me.

[erikqwerty]

Wow,

I just tried Xpaint from http://wing.nagaokauniv.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?files
It's wonderful, powerful, fast. A MUST

You need to install libtiff from rc11 feed

FreeNoteQT works very well also

Many thanks to ZDevil for the finding

SL-C1000 user
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Neat! Anyone know how to make a desktop icon for matchbox/xfce? You have to start it from the terminal..

[MONVMENTVM]

where to get stardict?

[Chero]

Neat! Anyone know how to make a desktop icon for matchbox/xfce? You have to start it from the terminal..
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Copy one of the .desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications (you can name it anything you like, ending with .desktop)
Edit the file, change the fields you want to (it's quite obvious what is what)
Save the file.

Now the apps should show up in the matchbox menu and the xfce screen-menu

If you use the xfce-start-menu : you can edit it when changing the properties (right click the icon in the panel)

Chero.