- One: STELLAR WORK Meanie. I've played with your XQt package with Cacko and was impressed, so when I saw you'd tweaked pdaXrom for Akita I had to give it a go (5.4.4 "Sally", by version). Certainly the most functional distro of this I've ever run. Only been this weekend, but it hasn't crashed once, it turns on and off reliably, and KDEPIM works like a charm so I have all my data and passwords. GOOD FORM!
<edit>Can't say it hasn't crashed. (sniffle) It kept the time, today (may 21) but set the date back to May 14. When I used the Date/Time dialog to fix it, and saved, the screen went dark, and I had to power cycle. On resume it had totally hosed things. All window decoration is gone (border, titles, etc), the task/applet bar is gone, and none of the keys (like the "super" key) work any longer. If it weren't for that annoying bunch of icons on the screen I couldn't do anything at all. (bemused grin) Dunno what to do at this point, but I think it's going to be simpler to reflash than spend all the time researching what flat file to edit to fix it. It also appears to have corrupted the xfce installation because that won't load. Multiple reboots/resets have had no effect. Bogus. This time thing is going to be a deal killer in the end.</edit>
- Two: It does lose time. I *think* when I use the menu to suspend it, it freezes the clock, because it doesn't lose only six hours. Today it was off by nearly 12. When I use the button it doesn't *seem* to do this, but it is a bit vexing to have the clock be inaccurate. Any hints on what I can run/do/edit to troubleshoot this?
- Three: It turns on *very* slowly. I personally don't care, but it does do that.
- Four: There's this bar at the bottom, see, but running apps never appear there. Is that normal? If it is, it is, but if it isn't, I'd like to troubleshoot that as well.
- Five: This appears to have QT installed as well as X, but when I install a QT app it won't work. I copied all QT libs to /usr/lib/qt/lib and all QT bins to /usr/lib/qt/bin, then symlinked those dirs from /opt/QtPalmtop but it still can't find libs on launch. I don' t have any QT apps currently installed (nuked kernel-modules by accident and had to reflash), but any pointers in that direction would be nice. None of the X versions of Sokoban work right. (little boy pout)
- Six: There's this funny bar at the top of the desktop with all of the normal menu selections under it, as icons. I would like to completely dispense with that entire bar and icon system. There are also a number of customizations I'd like to do to the UI, and I'm pretty sure they're doable, but I'm a Rank N00b at X on the Z and have less than no clue where to even start. I've done some poking around here on OESF, but search has never been a strong point of the OESF forum software, that I've noticed, so I've had limited success. If anyone has any hints in that direction I'd appreciate it. For instance, this seems to have "rox" installed, but I can't get it to show me files other than that desktop-level icon thing. Grrrr, I say.
- Seven: I'm thinking of ditching all managers except icewm or fluxbox. I don't know how that could be a problem but it never hurts to solicit input. (grin)
- Eight: I read somewhere that this won't turn until the lid is closed for a while, then it works. Mine does this. Minor to say the least, but I thought I'd toss it out there.
- Nine: Every applications launches very slowly. Again this doesn't bother me, because it's a full-blown Linux distro, in essence, complete with X. Others may find this more annoying, but nothing I've seen makes any difference in load times, even unloading scim (though that did boost memory quite a bit - sweet)
- Ten: jamvm is equivalent to 1.4.x. Very nice! No more brain-dead evm!! I've even scripted it to launch as "java". (grin)
- Eleven: One of the backlight brightness settings is "off". Cute!
- Twelve: Virtual desktops *are* there. There doesn't seem to be any default to show them, but the "super" key (now that I've read this thread and know what it is) goes back and forth just fine as you please. Wowzers!! That'll be a good clutter reducer on this tiny display.
- More later ... these are just my initial observations. I'm thinking this is the first non-Sharp ROM that's been stable enough to keep around. My little mind is officially boggled...
