Asside from a disconcertingly slow first startup, it looks nice.
Four quick points:
1) Vi does not work right. Try typing a line and the carriage return. The line will disappear, and status lines will accumulate at the bottom of the screen.
2) I am glad to see a volume control was added. On the earlier version posted in this thread
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=5611I was able to use filte
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/but without volume controle. I am using the binary from my SD card. However, there is a serious problem. Flite just speaks chipmunk giberish now. I think it is an issue with a speed setting for the DSP that I read about somewhere.
3) My SD card mounts, but my ext2 CF card does not. I think that was covered here in the last week or so, but just mentioning it.
4) Keyboards: The fitaly on screen keyboard is great, but I need help figuring out how best to implement dvorak on the built in keyboard.
Details:
This was my first time seeing the fitaly keyboard. It is in the virtual keyboard settings tab. It is really great! Will have to adapt my thumbnail for one handed typing.
However, the builtin keyboard is still crucial for those situations that require typing without looking, like taking notes at conferences etc. For that I have adapted my keyboard by using Elmer's glue to stick rough bits of pineapple leaf to the home keys so I can touch type. My prefered keyboard layout is dvorak. In addition to letting me stay in the key layout I have memorized, I would contend that this is a better keyboard for thumb typing as well as ten finger typing. In particular, having most of the action on the home row lets you do most typing by rotating and swiveling the thumbs, rather than moving and then having to find home again. Also the alternation between hands continues to give a speed advantage.
Question:
When I thought I had bricked my Z5500 on my first attempt to flash this I found out about the 'd p' reset in which I have to hold down d and p while pressing the reset button in the battery compartment. One of the menue items related to the keyboard. This item went through all the keys, asking me to press the corresponding key on the keyboard. It seems I could remap the keys this way. I suspect this will also affect the number, symbol, and function keys, which is not such a good thing. Is there a better way to remap the key? Only doing so in X would be ok. I see that there is a file called 40xmodmap in Xinit.d which just calles xmodmap for one key under some condition. However, xmodmap is not in this rom. I suppose if it was included I would be able to adjust my keys in the same way as all other X enviroments? Can this be included? Or is there some other way of mapping my keys?
Finally, is there a PowerPC or onboard version of the OE environment ?
Also, sorry, but the URL button does not work on the version of Firefox I am using on OSX.
PS:
Also, Image Gallery does nothing, Program Manager always slides back to the top program, the screen brightness control panel only lets you set the brightness to 10, but the icon at the bottom of the screen does let you adjust brightness. Can't get the mixer to go away once it has been launched, can only minimize it.
