What would you like to see in Cacko 1.22 ROM?

[totaln00b]

If the idea of a lite version of the ROM did catch on, can I request that Opera is the browser included if any? Basically I only use my zaurus as a localhost web-server, not for browsing the world wide web, and when I try and use Netfront it insists on trying to dial out, and when it can't it refuses to display local pages. I'd love to hear if there's a solution to this, but if not can we please stick with Opera?

Jo

[stupkid]

What about an iptables package or iptables built into the ROM?  There are many cool things that can be done with iptables.

[iamasmith]

Yeah, IPTABLES, PLEASE, at least I won't have to worry when I GPRS with my Wiki running.

Even if you can't prettify it please just modules support.

[maslovsky]

If the idea of a lite version of the ROM did catch on, can I request that Opera is the browser included if any? Basically I only use my zaurus as a localhost web-server, not for browsing the world wide web, and when I try and use Netfront it insists on trying to dial out, and when it can't it refuses to display local pages. I'd love to hear if there's a solution to this, but if not can we please stick with Opera?

Jo

This may help you:

http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1385

[maslovsky]

What about an iptables package or iptables built into the ROM?  There are many cool things that can be done with iptables.

ok, if it's not too  much work

[mikew]

No I did not know about the task switching, thanks.

Must find a way of putting some small labels near some of the short cut keys, getting old, so it takes a while to sink in.

Prefere to use the keyboard when I can, shame you can't use the Menu key in KO/Pi & KA/Pi.

Mike

[iamasmith]

Remember what I was saying about the version of fdisk being old ?

e2fsck is version 1.19 on Cacko 1.21b
Using version 1.35 corrects the issue with e2fsck trashing your ext3 journal (bad inode at block 8 ring a bell ?)

[henley_regatta]

My must-have(1) feature is a data migration capability. Since I've never managed to get my PIM apps to sync up with..er.. anything(2), I really need some way of importing that data back into the Z after flashing.

I'd vote for Opera as default browser with NetFront an option, but I can see this is a vi-vs-emacs Holy war in the making.

Speaking of which: if you could include VIM in the next rom, that'd be one less ipk to reinstall  

Thanks for all the effort on Cacko, which is greatly appreciated!

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(1) - When I say "must have" I, like every other geek, really mean "I really, really want this but my curiosity will probably get me using 1.22 anyway...

(2) - I'm clearly a moron. I've tried both the "S" and "U" versions of the Sharp downloads, both come with Qtopia Desktop 1.5.5 which won't sync with the PIM apps on Cacko 1.21 (version incompatibilities apparently). And I don't have Outlook to sync against. I'd have tried syncing to Evolution on Linux, except the plugin only works with the earlier Sharp PIM suite. Am I alone in this?

[Ling]

-Finally, for some reason prboom doesn't seem to work right from the menu (but fine with some fudging from the shell). I read somewhere this is only a problem with Cacko. A rather minor thing, of course.

Worked for me as far as I can remember. I donl't have it right now but it did work.

I attempted to install recently, and it does not work per the instructions. I used the zports libs and app. Once I had run it from the command line, it ran from the GUI. However, I have never got it to run in landscape, full screen. I really gave up and was going to wait until a newer SDL was available. I did not think it was a Cacko problem, but maybe so.

[maslovsky]

Remember what I was saying about the version of fdisk being old ?

e2fsck is version 1.19 on Cacko 1.21b
Using version 1.35 corrects the issue with e2fsck trashing your ext3 journal (bad inode at block 8 ring a bell ?)

Cool! Tripple check and feel free to send it to me (or attach here). I'll make sure it's included in the ROM.

[maslovsky]

I attempted to install recently, and it does not work per the instructions. I used the zports libs and app. Once I had run it from the command line, it ran from the GUI. However, I have never got it to run in landscape, full screen. I really gave up and was going to wait until a newer SDL was available. I did not think it was a Cacko problem, but maybe so.

Here is what you can try - use prboom desktop icon to run it with madnified screen option.

[maslovsky]

My must-have(1) feature is a data migration capability. Since I've never managed to get my PIM apps to sync up with..er.. anything(2), I really need some way of importing that data back into the Z after flashing

I don't think we'll get to help you with that. I use Outlook for that purpose.

I'd vote for Opera as default browser with NetFront an option, but I can see this is a vi-vs-emacs Holy war in the making

I realy think we should either include both or none, so that users can install what they want after flash. That's the only way of making a public ROM version, so that everyone is more or less happy.

[henley_regatta]

I don't think we'll get to help you with that. I use Outlook for that purpose.

So, have you ever gotten a sync to work with Qtopia Desktop? And if so, which version?

[arthuregg]

One of the things I wonder about is the difference between having everything that one might need in the rom vs. the customization... the questions about NetFront vs Opera are sort of case in point here- some people like Opera, some like NetFront. So what to do.... I'm not sure that I have the answer to that, but to err on the side of including more rather than less, here are some things that I think would be neat to have in the rom (which might help some some folks with common installation issues).

1) kismet. boy it would be swell to have a functional version out of the box
2) kde apps. I like the kde pim stuff quite a bit and having the kde mail client would be nice (ssl!)
3) vnc. Maybe this is because i'm just a dork and can't get it running, but again, nice to have out of the box
4) various X apps like xmms and xchat.
5) more themes


of course, the argument can be made that people can take the time to install this stuff, but my point is more about getting more functionality out of the box. This (i think?) would be really helpful to new users. It's taken me months to settle on the cacko rom- there are things that i'd rather use other roms for, but for me cacko is the most useable, largely because i've had to do the least amount of customization.

[Ling]

I attempted to install recently, and it does not work per the instructions. I used the zports libs and app. Once I had run it from the command line, it ran from the GUI. However, I have never got it to run in landscape, full screen. I really gave up and was going to wait until a newer SDL was available. I did not think it was a Cacko problem, but maybe so.

Here is what you can try - use prboom desktop icon to run it with madnified screen option.

I tried that. I have posted to a few threads and I am not sure there is anyone who is running prboom full screen in landscape mode. If there are, they are not sharing. Thanks anyway.