Ok, No More Major Issues In Cacko 1.22?

[pelrun]

The magnified screen issue is because the small versions of the icons haven't been included in the default install - there's a smallicons package in the feed to put these back in. Unfortunately not all the icons have small versions, and so this isn't nearly as good a solution as it needs to be.

The cache isn't a problem - it'll expand to fill up most of the free memory. But it'll also shrink back down as soon as some other process needs the space. If you get out-of-memory errors when the cache is still a significant size then there might be an issue, but I doubt that's the case here.

[maslovsky]

Have you tried installing small icons package from Cacko feed? I includes all the icons for magnified mode. Let me know if it helps.

A lot of apps that run in Magnified Screen mode are unusable because the exceed the physical screen size.

Tapping the check box does not toggle the state (box remains checked).

The bottom task bar exceeds the screen size so the Qtopia menu can not be clicked on.

In the case of SLapAss, even using the MENU key to get the Qtopia popup was useless since there was not even a ROTATE opition on the menus.

This is a major problem, IMHO, since it renders a number of apps effectively unusable. I've searched on the keywords but have not seen a post of these specific problems.
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[maslovsky]

The magnified screen issue is because the small versions of the icons haven't been included in the default install - there's a smallicons package in the feed to put these back in. Unfortunately not all the icons have small versions, and so this isn't nearly as good a solution as it needs to be.

Can you tell me which icons are missing and in which apps?  I will update the package.

[suid]

Hi !

I've installed Cacko 1.22 plus Japanese kernel, having previously never run with Cacko, preferring a hand-converted Sharp ROM. So I'm still in the process of familiarising myself with everything ...

Fist of all - thanks. You've clearly put a lot of effort into the ROM. Right, here are my observations so far :

Oddities with the screen going black and poor charging, already well reported.

Having switched Language to Japanese, jisho, Hancomsheet and others work fine with Japanese input but Hancom Word refuses to accept Japanese characters via the keyboard, it only works using the inputmethods. Not a major problem for me but might bother some people.

As an aside, it was mentioned in the Japanese kernel thread that you can use Japanese input without changing language by installing the unicode font. Can anyone report that this works ?

Some strangeness when changing the date/time. Using the up/down arrows or pressing on OK will sometimes bring up one of the Japanese input methods (JpnSymPad).

One bizarre incident that has only happened once - using "mv" in Konsole produced an error message along the lines of "file does not exist", when it clearly did. A reboot fixed that one.

A question rather than a bug - I tried to tighten up the sudoers file by giving access to only a few select programs, but this stopped suspend and reboot from working. There seems to be a reliance on using sudo for a lot of things, but the Sharp ROM doesn't need it. Why the difference ?

Right, I'll go and do some more playing.


Cheers

Ian

[maslovsky]

It probably makes mroe sence to report Japanese-related issue to the proper thread (Japanese kernel), so that people, who actualy use Japanese stuff can help you.

Having switched Language to Japanese, jisho, Hancomsheet and others work fine with Japanese input but Hancom Word refuses to accept Japanese characters via the keyboard, it only works using the inputmethods. Not a major problem for me but might bother some people.

As an aside, it was mentioned in the Japanese kernel thread that you can use Japanese input without changing language by installing the unicode font. Can anyone report that this works ?

Some strangeness when changing the date/time. Using the up/down arrows or pressing on OK will sometimes bring up one of the Japanese input methods (JpnSymPad).

[maslovsky]

A question rather than a bug - I tried to tighten up the sudoers file by giving access to only a few select programs, but this stopped suspend and reboot from working. There seems to be a reliance on using sudo for a lot of things, but the Sharp ROM doesn't need it. Why the difference ?

Most likely, the "Suspend-Resume architecture", which is inscluded in Cacko ROM depends on default configuration of sudo. You can contact tumnus regarding this architecture.

Also, note that some of the applications (in particular, bluetooth networking applets) also depend on sudo. They may work with non-default sudo settings, but this was never tested...

[Flandry]

It seems to me that the battery level indicator is overly optimistic now, or it might just be a Kino2 issue.  Three times now i have checked the battery icon while playing music (screen closed) and found it at well over half charge, only to have the whole thing die on me less than an hour later.  Previously that level meant i had at least two more hours of music, plus some spreadsheet use before i had to worry about power.

All three times it was with the screen closed and kino2 running, and last night was extra-unusual in that i had to take out the battery for a moment, replace it, and then plug the Z in before i could get it to turn on.  So it may be that kino2 pegs the processor at 100% at some point like someone else here observed, and drains off the battery suddenly because of it.  I don't know how the lockup occurred, though.

Kino2 also stutters or freezes for a few moments at random points in music playback, a problem i never had with the previous ROM and players.

And in a completely unrelated note, i have a stupid question: what's the root password?  I tried to switch to root to do some stuff, and couldn't get what i thought was the password on the previous ROM to work.  Is everything intended to be done through sudo?

[Miami_Bob]

Thanks very much, pelrun. Getting the small icons now & watching the cache (still seems large to me, but no out of memory yet, so .... G).

[Miami_Bob]

Have you tried installing small icons package from Cacko feed? I includes all the icons for magnified mode. Let me know if it helps.

I hadn't but it is downloading now & will get installed ASAP afterwards. Will let you know soonest how it works.

Thanks! With the Japanese support kernel, I may no longer have any good reasons to stay with the plain Sharp ROM!!

BTW - It would be nice (IMHO) if a tap on the time shown on the taskbar right end brought up the date info instead of sending the user directly to the settings page. Or possibly a setup option giving the user a choice. I often need to remind myself what the date is (old man's CRS disease, and all).

Great job!!

[Miami_Bob]

OK. I just installed small-icons v1.0.0-1

Using qpe-minesweep v1.5.0-1 for first example, The game board & squares at the different levels each appear more or less the same as those on C860 under plain Sharp. (side by side comparison)

The task bar icons, however, are still much wider & taller than they should be. They badly over lap one another and the bottom 1/2 or so of the entire row is cut off by the lower edge of the physical screen.

With qpe-mindbreaker v1.5.0-1, the game board itself has both bottom & right side scroll bars. The plain Sharp one does not. The task bar icons are again too large in both dimensions by far. There is also some problem as to which task bar icon responds to a click on the area of an adjacent icon.

SLapASS v1.0-1, in magnified display, starts about 1/2 way off the right side of the screen. The opening box has to be repositioned each time. Better than before, though, when it wouldn't even fit across the width of the screen.

If you click "Configure APs", the box is too wide for the screen no matter what you try. Fortunately, the problem with the Magnified screen check box not responding has gone away, so SLapASS can be run landscape without editing the *.desktop file directly.

Having the "top" command is really great, BTW!

You are aware that the ZUG URL on the boot screen needs to be changed, I hope.

Thanks again. I can live with the current state of magnified screen because I run all but a very few apps in landscape. But some are just too small to see & use without the magnified display.

Now if I can only figure out, without any docs, why SLapASS is spawning zombies right & left constantly ..... G!

[maslovsky]

BTW - It would be nice (IMHO) if a tap on the time shown on the taskbar right end brought up the date info instead of sending the user directly to the settings page. Or possibly a setup option giving the user a choice. I often need to remind myself what the date is (old man's CRS disease, and all).

Install Qtopia Alarm Clock Advanced - it does exactly that plus some more

http://my-zaurus.narod.ru/qpealarmclock.html

[maslovsky]

OK, thanks for reporting! I'll be looking into the small icons package issues and try to fix them.

[Miami_Bob]

Install Qtopia Alarm Clock Advanced - it does exactly that plus some more

Thanks, I'll give it a look!

OK, thanks for reporting! I'll be looking into the small icons package issues and try to fix them.

And, thank you, kind sir, again. I know you are probably busy as can be, so will wait with patience.

All your work (and of the others on the team) is greatly appreciated!

[Miami_Bob]

maslovsky -

Actually, what I had in mind on the taskbar clock applet was more like what Sharp v1.40 JP does. ie:

[Miami_Bob]

Sorry to say, but more strange behavior on the magnified screen - small taskbar icons front.

I decided to take a screen capture to post. Opened Mindbreaker in magnified screen. Got a white display followed by a very distorted but recognisable "boot time" 1 to 5 count down, in portrait mode, then the usual "tada" wave & the time - date settings page.

Tried launching Mindbreaker in magnified screen again. This time it opened properly except that the taskbar icons were back to the size that they had been before installing the small icons ipk.

Small icons showed on the Uninstall list. Uninstalled the package. This caused several tab icons, most noticably TreeExplorer + & TreeText, to change to an icon that I have never seen before. In *landscape* mode!

It totally pooched the display of Mindbreaker, as well. Looked like the component images went south somehow.

Since I had made NANDs at several points over the past few days, I went on & reinstalled the small icons ipk. This returned the above tab icons to their previous images & the Mindbreaker image components but failed to restore the smaller taskbar icons in magnified screen displays.

I took a snapshot anyhow. Attaching images no longer seems to place them in the message body & I don not have a URL where I can hang them as the "insert image" demands. But here is the JPG as attachment.