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261 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | High | Overview of all current KEYBOARD INPUT related issues | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Built-in keyboard input is a central thing on the Pandora, as it concerns almost all user interfaced apps!
I realized that I myself and also others submitted quite many reports concerning this issue.
Hence this meta issue is intended as an overview/accumulation/aid for those devs who are willing to overwork the whole issue.
If you realize new related issues, feel free to add them here.
If this my effort is contradicting the OpenPandora workflow, then pardon me, and instruct me, how else to handle issues of that kind. Thanks!
Keyboard low level: Driver, keyboard layout, post processing (hotkeys, input support, etc)
FS#138 FS#227 FS#242 FS#259
Keyboard mid level: Application interfacing
FS#102 FS#123 FS#238
Keyboard application internal level
FS#157 (dupe: FS#249 ) FS#243 FS#256 |
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47 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Medium | evmapperd: Blinking LED and charging control | Closed | |
Task Description
evmapperd should start blinking when the power is getting low.
Ideally, the blinking speed should increase with decreasing battery power and should start maybe at 5% as default (would be nice to have the settings configurable by the user).
As soon as the AC adaptor is connected, blinking should stop.
When the battery power is at 0% it should immediately shutdown and poweroff (NOT to be overridden by the user!)
Aditionally, we should have some charging control (or would it be better using a different daemon for that?)
Here's part of my conversation with MichaelW:
when the charge current was below a threshold, it would reduce the charger input current allowed and take it down to about what the system needs
it would be an active thing constantly sampling the system and constantly updating the input current to match the system
the alternative is that when the battery is full, the charge path is cut off until the battery drops down a bit, maybe 90% |
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50 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Medium | pmenu: Add shutdown / logout | Closed | |
Task Description
There's no way yet to shutdown (poweroff) or logout from pmenu yet. |
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12 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | file association for .pnd | New | |
Task Description
Build the xml file and defaults.list so that pnd_run is file-assocated to .pnd |
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13 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | verify pndevmapperd is invoking scripts | Closed | |
Task Description
menu button is verified
verify power button
verify lid open/close |
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14 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Add hup of pndnotifyd to .xinitrc | Closed | |
Task Description
Pretty minor risk, but if the guy creates multiple accounts on the machine, and logs out of one and into another .. we'll want to hup pndnotifyd
Alternative solution is to poll utmp (or inotify on utmp?) to watch for logins and handle it magicly. |
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29 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | ToDo: Map Fn-U and Fn-I with brightness controls | Closed | |
Task Description
Include brightness change hotkeys. |
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34 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Add software mixer to ALSA | Closed | |
Task Description
Some headphones are very loud. The volume wheel cannot be used properly with them.
Therefore, we should be able to change the volume in software mode, too.
File attached below, simply needs to be included in the next image by DJWillis. |
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48 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Create the TV Out Enable / Disable scripts | Closed | |
Task Description
The commands do exist, I just need to wrap them round some zenity scripts. |
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49 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Change some of our scripts into internal PNDs | Closed | |
Task Description
Some of our scripts (CPU Speed, Switch Default GUI, Enable TV Out) should be changed into PND format so that pmenu can also run them. |
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59 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | ToDo: Add joystick / keyboard switch to pnd_run and lib ... | Closed | |
Task Description
The next kernel offers switching between a joystick / keyboard mode.
In joystick mode, the DPAD and ABXYRL Buttons behave like a joystick buttons and have no keyboard mappings.
In keyboard mode, the DPAD and ABXYRL Buttons have keyboard mappings and are NOT registered as joystick.
The normal keyboard keys are not affected by this.
PXML needs to have a switch added for that and pnd_run should change the mode according to that switch.
When the PND app has quit, it should always go back to keyboard mode.
The commands are the following:
echo 1 > /proc/pandora/game_button_mode # keyboard mode
echo 2 > /proc/pandora/game_button_mode # gamepad mode |
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60 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Include new menufile (Setting) for XFCE4 | Closed | |
Task Description
I just built a nice menu file which features subdirectories for games and emulators :)
I attached it, the old one should be replaced:
/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu |
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62 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | New xmodmap to include into latest image | Closed | |
Task Description
This is just the latest xmodmap, based on the latest map notaz released.
Both maps (xmodmap and notaz' console map) are attached.
Path in the image:
/etc/skel/.pndXmodmap
/etc/keymap-extension-2.6.map |
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63 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Include new panel-setup for XFCE4 | Closed | |
Task Description
I enhanced the XFCE4-Panel setup a bit, since we now have working ALSA mixer and a battery monitor.
The files inside the attached archive should go to
/etc/xdg/op/xfce4/panel/*
in the image. |
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64 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | New power-manager.xml-file (removes opening the logout ... | Closed | |
Task Description
As the powerswitch is used to go into low power mode or shutdown, it doesn't make sense showing the logout dialogue (which would appear when you come back from low-power mode).
Therefore, I disabled it with this file.
It should be placed in:
/etc/xdg/op/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/
in the image. |
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70 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Make switching GUIs more customizable (hardcoded at the ... | Closed | |
Task Description
At the moment, /usr/pandora/scripts/op_switchgui,sh ,/usr/pandora/scripts/op_defaultgui.sh and /usr/pandora/scripts/first-run-wizard.sh are hardcoded with the GUIs we have.
I'd like to have that configurable for the future.
My current plan is having a config file with all the GUIs in (e.g. /etc/pandora/gui.conf)
In there, there should be ALL GUIs:
"XFCE4";"startxfce4";"xfce4-session-logout --logout"
"Netbook Launcher";"startnetbooklauncher";"killall netbook-launcher-efl"
"PMenu";"pmenu";""
So with an info:
a) What's the name of the GUI
b) How to start it
c) How to stop it (if it doesn't do that itself)
Therefore, various GUIs could be implemented and switched with the Switch GUI script by simply adding it to the config file.
Ideally, all GUIs should either have a shutdown script (so I don't have to kill it to quit it) or react properly on a simple terminate
command :)
Or they could do it themselves, read out the config file, show up the different GUIs we have, change the /tmp/gui.load file and quit.
Any more ideas?
Any help? Coding that script shouldn't be too hard, the only thing I don't know at the moment is how to parse various config lines (as above) into a shell script :)
vimacs, any idea there? |
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75 | Base OS | To Do (Reminder) | Low | Remove application-launcher from Pandora-Button | Closed | |
Task Description
As the Application Launcher takes 12 seconds to load and slows all running games down terribly if you accidentally hit the Pandora-Button, it is useless.
Please change it so it does something different.
My suggestions:
* Open the XFCE Start-Menu
or
* Open a simple applauncher (as suggested by vimacs)
Make sure it doesn't disturb any game or emulator if you press it while playing! |
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216 | Application | To Do (Reminder) | Low | ToDo - SD manager tool (backup homedir/restore, prepare... | New | |
Task Description
Should make up a simple zenity script tool ..
- backup -> pick SD -> backs up current user's homedor to SD. (tar.gz format so permissions can be kept; not cpio/etc, too annoying for user.) -> keep rolling, or just one copy?
- restore -> pick SD -> pick user -> confirm -> wipe home and restore with version from tarball? (or just unpack in-place, so existing new files are kept)
-> prepare SD -> pick SD -> mkdir /pandora/menu and /pandora/desktop |
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175 | Core | To Do (Reminder) | Very Low | Test | Closed | |
Task Description
Test if the edit button in the bug tracker works now. //Edit: Blah |
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108 | Base OS | Feature Request | Critical | TUN/TAN-Driver | Closed | |
Task Description
There is no TUN/TAN Driver installed. This is recommanded for some encrypted wireless lan connections, especially for eduroam, a world wide access point for the education community. Also, a tun-driver is also recommended for vpnc. |
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54 | Core | Feature Request | High | Make it possible to enable / disable keyboard mappings ... | Closed | |
Task Description
Some stuff (UAE4ALL, SuperTux, etc.) is having problems because ABXY and DPAD are mapped to keyboard buttons.
I guess this will lead to more problems in the near future with SDL apps, so it should be configurable to enable / disable the keyboard -> DPAD / ABXY mappings.
Maybe this could be included into libpnd? |
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195 | Core | Feature Request | High | Start re-recharge of battery sooner | Closed | |
Task Description
Increase battery LVL_4 and LVL_3 threshold.
After reaching 100%, in some cases the charge circuit enters "battery full" state, stops charging, and begins to discharge. This is not entirely unexpected behavior according to the spec sheet, although I don't fully understand exactly the situations in which it completes charging. Once the battery is full, the battery will begin discharging. The charge circuit automatically restarts the recharge once the voltage has gone below a certain level (crosses below the LVL_3 voltage threshold)
The default LVL_3 voltage threshold is 3.902 volts which is at about 80-85% battery level as recorded by bq27500 chip. In my opinion, this is way too low.
Setting the BCIMFTH2 register to 0xCB increases the voltage threshold to about 4.003 volts which is about 93%.
Setting it to 0xDC may also be worthwhile, which is just over 95%.
By default, if a user leaves their Pandora plugged in overnight, they may wake up to find their Pandora has stopped charging and the capacity has dropped to almost 80%, which can be quite startling to some users who will then report it as a bug.
This change will ensure that it never drops below 93-95%, a much more acceptable level.
Specific code changes suggested, in the /drivers/power/twl4030_bci_battery.c file, somewhere in the twl4030_bci_battery_probe function (or a function called by it), add the lines:
/********************************/
#define KEY_FTH2 0x7F
#define REG_BCIMFTH2 0x017
ret = twl4030_i2c_write_u8(TWL4030_MODULE_MAIN_CHARGE, KEY_FTH2, REG_BCIMFKEY);
if (ret)
return ret;
ret = twl4030_i2c_write_u8(TWL4030_MODULE_MAIN_CHARGE, 0xDC, REG_BCIMFTH2);
if (ret)
return ret;
/********************************/
(Move defines to the top, as appropriate) |
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226 | Core | Feature Request | High | Boot from /dev/sda devices requested | Closed | |
Task Description
Boot from usb hard disk not supported. This should be a rather simple fix of adding the sdx devices and adjust the boot scripts??
I was able to put this autoboot.txt on mmc 0:1
setenv bootargs debug root=/dev/sda1 rw rootdelay=2 console=ttyS0,115200n8 vram=6272K omapfb.vram=0:3000K
ext2load sda 0:1 0x80300000 /boot/uImage
bootm 0x80300000
This failed with amongst other things "Block device sda 0 not supported" and something about failing to load kernel
So I then changed the autoboot file to this
setenv bootargs debug root=/dev/sda1 rw rootdelay=2 console=ttyS0,115200n8 vram=6272K omapfb.vram=0:3000K
ext2load mmc 0:3 0x80300000 /boot/uImage
bootm 0x80300000
All this did was die after the kernel loaded.
I believe I could much better make use of this device if I could boot from some faster storage, please advise :) |
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61 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Packages to remove and include | Closed | |
Task Description
The following packages can be removed:
embryo
gnome-games
gnome-games-blackjack
gnome-games-gnometris
gnome-games-iagno
gnome-games-gtali
gnome-games-gnobots2
xmms-mad
But we need the following ones:
xmms-plugin-input-mpg123
xmms-plugin-input-mikmod
mikmod
libxxf86dga1
epdfview
gnumeric (if possible, would be nice)
I do wonder though if we should remove all gnome-games (and ScummVM) completely.
Makes more sense if we wrap those games up as PND files.
Same goes for the community wallpapers. Should we include them? Or save that space for other things? |
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73 | Base OS | Feature Request | Medium | Nub: Change mouse speed, fix scrolling and add mouse bu ... | Closed | |
Task Description
Currently the nubs can be set to three different modes:
mouse, scroll and absolute
Mode 1 (mouse) works fine, but the speed is a bit slow.
Mode 2 (scroll) has inverted scrolling and it would be nice if scrolling speed would change according to how far you move it
Aditionally, I would suggest adding another mode: mbuttons (Mouse buttons).
At the moment, you can use the nubs as mouse but don't have any mouse buttons.
I think it would be very convenient if you could set the nubs as mouse buttons:
Move the nub left for left click, right for right click, up for double click and down for middle click.
That way, each user could use the left nub for mouse and the right nub for mouse buttons or vice versa. |
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111 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Minimal Boot to X_Term / Pico | Closed | |
Task Description
Can we add an option to the boot menu for a minimal boot to X-term, and include Pico in the base OS?
This would allow us to fix problems we've caused by messing around with starup scripts etc.. |
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122 | Base OS | Feature Request | Medium | SDL 1.2 optimizations | Closed | |
Task Description
At the moment, SDL is a bit slow and has vsync problems (tearing, etc.).
It could need optimizations to use the hardware. |
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142 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Visible Sleep Indicator | Closed | |
Task Description
Could we please get a visual indication that the Pandora is in sleep/low-power mode? I would suggest one of the case LEDs either turn on or blink to indicate the sleep mode. |
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151 | Base OS | Feature Request | Medium | [PATCH] Turn Off LCD when closing the lid | Closed | |
Task Description
Just added a few lines to op_lid.sh, will power off the LCD when you close the LID. Patch attached. |
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171 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Update clock from hardware when restoring from low powe ... | Closed | |
Task Description
The clock occasionally does weird things during low power mode, sometimes gaining time, sometimes losing. This is most likely a result of the CPU being reduced to 14Mhz and the system clock being unable to keep up.
A convenient work around is to make a call to "/sbin/hwclock --hctosys" during wake-up to load the hardware clock back into the system clock. This may add an extra second or two to the wake-up time but will prevent confusion caused by clock being very incorrect. |
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184 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | libpnd: Add a function to get all mounted PNDs | Closed | |
Task Description
Add a function to get all mounted PNDs. Because it's very annoying to check all the menu/desktop folders on all of the SD-Cards. |
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196 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | [PATCH] Add tablet support into kernel | Closed | |
Task Description
Hi,
This should be a quite simple thing, but my first time touching
the OE repo and i cant test it, so be careful. |
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209 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Shutdown after a full charge | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
That still need to be configurable, but chris_c does a good job I'ld like to see integraded in the main image :
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/58794-a-script-to-shutdown-after-charging/
and :
http://chrisc.bedroomcoders.co.uk/?p=77 |
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210 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Wader - cross platform graphical assistant for 3g conne... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
http://www.wader-project.org
http://trac.wader-project.org
http://trac.wader-project.org/wiki/Developers
this would be really usefull to monitor reception/network of mobile broadband dongle and it also counts ur mobile data usage (for those that have limits). |
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234 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Changeable behaviour when closing the lid | Closed | |
Task Description
As it was requested on forum.gp2x.de and I think it's a good idea I've written some scripts to allow the user to change what happens when the lid is opened/closed.
There are 3 Settings:
-The old behaviour (turning off the screen)
-Go into low power mode
-Shutdown
Default behaviour is still the same: Turn the screen off. Maybe we could change this to low power mode? I don't know.
I made a lot of changes to op_lid.sh: http://pastebin.com/GT3qxWSx (diff: http://pastebin.com/Z8GwpDj8 )
I changed line 11 in op_power.sh to: if [ $powerstate -ne 0 ]; then
And wrote a gui for changing the setting using zenity: http://pastebin.com/9JvSTqfQ
(I still can't upload any files, don't know if it's the fault of my browser, that's why I use this paste service) |
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242 | Application | Feature Request | Medium | Pressing SHIFT + any key in sequence creates the modifi... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
ISSUE ENVIRONMENT:
If you hold your Pandora in your hands, you only have your thumbs for typing, hence your typing abilities are quite limited.
It is hard to press more than 2 keys, and hard to press 2 keys on the same side, as your second thumb does not reach the opposite side all too easy (except you have a basketball player's hands).
The modifier keys Start/ALT Select/CTRL Pandora/(META, I guess?) are in the middle of the keyboard, hence the can easily pressed together with another key. But SHIFT lies at an ergonomically problematic side (left boundary). Hence hard to press with other left side keys.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION:
I suggest that Pandora OS offers an optional and configurable input help.
[1|2|3 presses | hold for duration x] SHIFT [timeout y] [modifier key 2] [timeout z] key
Produces the same result like SHIFT + modkey2 + key
Very likely modifier key 2 and timeout z are not necessary, as you can trigger the SHIFT hold (by your defined action), and then press the modifier key 2 and the other key at once, as the other modifier keys are laid at a central (ergonomically better) position. |
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243 | Application | Feature Request | Medium | MiniMenu: Pressing successive character keys should com... | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
Imagine this tab content:
Nubs, Pandora Input, PNDstore.
CURRENT BEHAVIOR:
Pressing "P" and "N" is succession jumps to "Nubs" eventually, as it first jumps to the first "P" item ("Pandora Input"), then to the first "N" item, "Nubs".
DESIRED BEHAVIOR:
That it acts like in most Linux file browsers or the Mac OS X Finder.
In detail: Pressing "P" and "N" within a certain time limit should combine them to the string "PN" and jump to the first item which starts with that string, i.e. "PNDStore". If no item matches, reduce the combination string by one character, try to match again, if that doesn't match, try matching again with one character less, ... , until only one character is left, and if that one doesn't match jump to the nearest previous lexicographical character, which matches. |
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248 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Support for hibernation by caching to SD card | Closed | |
Task Description
It would be very desirable that the PandoraOS could hibernate, and that this action can easily be accessed/triggered with either a hotkey or as an action for the max-idle-time-event or lid-close-event.
That would be the battery friendly universal action to quickly pause/resume any arbitrary application/task.
The current standby mode is far to power consuming for breaks longer than ~ 1 hour. Improving standby mode to be more battery-friendly would of course be too highly appreciated and practical.
If hibernation is triggered, RAM content gets written to a special file or partition on a SD card. The boot-manager of course needs to recognize such a RAM-file on SD-cards. In case it finds more than 1, i.e.: multiple cards/partitions, the one with the newest timestamp gets priority.
256MB RAM with about 10-20 MB/s read/write time to SD, would result in 25-12 seconds for going into or out of hibernation, which would be acceptable for me. In practice it would mean, that if I quickly have to pause me OpenPandora operation (i.e. train stop), I just close my lid, and put the Pandora into my pocket (2-4 seconds), and I am then trusting that the rest reliable happens in my pocket (10-20 seconds). |
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250 | Application | Feature Request | Medium | File Browser Thunar - Trashing file crosses filesystem ... | Researching | |
Task Description
Trashing a file/folder seems to MOVE it to a certain trash directory on the MAIN VOLUME, rather then the ORIGINATING VOLUME, hence this can result in a COPY RATHER THAN A MOVE operation, if the trashed file originates from a filesystem other than the main filesystem!
This is very inefficient and faulty as it is:
a) Very time consuming
b) And in case of large files this operation can even fail due to not enough free space on the main volume. |
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253 | Application | Feature Request | Medium | Switch GUI: Intelligent automatic choice | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
If only 2 GUIs are available, skip the user selection and switch right into the only other GUI. What else would the user want?! Right!
If more than 2, already set the focus in the GUI list to the next possible item. |
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279 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | pidgin requires (more) locales to work correctly | Closed | |
Task Description
Please add the following package to allow umlauts working in pidgin:
glibc-gconv-utf-16
After installing this package I no longer have a problem receiving umlauts in pidgin. Besides it might also make sense to add "glibc-gconv-cp1250" which might be required for western europe and koi8-r which seems to be missing for xchat and conversion of chars there.
At the moment the following locale related packages are installed (as of SuperZaxxon Beta3):
glibc-charmap-utf-8 - 2.9-r35.3.5
glibc-gconv - 2.9-r35.3.5
glibc-gconv-cp1252 - 2.9-r35.3.5
glibc-gconv-ibm850 - 2.9-r35.3.5
glibc-gconv-iso8859-1 - 2.9-r35.3.5
glibc-gconv-iso8859-15 - 2.9-r35.3.5
Please add:
glibc-gconv-cp1250
glibc-gconv-koi8-r
glibc-gconv-unicode
glibc-gconv-utf-16
Thanks! |
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307 | Core | Feature Request | Medium | Change how Automatic Shutdown works | Unconfirmed | |
Task Description
When thee Pandora is shutting down because its almost out of power, it should check to make sure that the nub inputs are set to the default mode (which is mouse movement for the left nub and mouse buttons for the right nub). If not, it should change them to be like that. |
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17 | Core | Feature Request | Low | Backlight off when display shuts off | Closed | |
Task Description
Would it be easy to make the backlight shut off when the screen goes off after a period of inactivity? That would save a lot of energy both during the charge cycle and if left on with a battery running.
Thanks! |
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19 | Core | Feature Request | Low | XFCE-Menu Editor | Closed | |
Task Description
Add an XFCE-Menu Editor (using python).
This way, people can edit the Startmenu :)
http://my.opera.com/Texel/blog/2008/02/20/xfce-applications-menu-editor-0-4 |
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85 | Core | Feature Request | Low | open lid while in low power mode | Closed | |
Task Description
I'm replying in-forum:
An interesting point -- opening the lid turning the screen on, but you're still in lower power mode. The question then becomes --
Since you enabled low power mode (using the power switch), thats the logical way to un-low power mode.
Two outcomes come to mind ..
When opening the lid, one of:
i) wake up from low power mode, or
ii) Don't turn the screen on when in low power mode
(or a variation of (ii) -- flash a warning "hey, I'm in lower power, bugger off, and hit the power switch")
I can code something in; probably occured due to in my prototype, I broke the power switch, so I didn't use low power mode near the end ;) |
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88 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | pydoc is missing | Closed | |
Task Description
I love to use the pandora for some on-the-go python development, and I think I'm not the only one, but unfortunately the module pydoc is missing, which is needed for doing help(sys) on the interactive prompt. Could you please include that in the next firmware revision? Thanks! |
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90 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Adding more "general libs" to the OS image | Closed | |
Task Description
It would be nice if some more generic libs that could be used by software ported to the Pandora would be available in the base image. For example for Wesnoth we do require these additional libs (names taken from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=boost ):
* boost-iostreams
* boost-regex
* boost-serialization
Beside this Wesnoth does also require this package (from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=lua5.1 ):
* lua5.1
In general I would recommend pulling in all of boost. This means the dependencies as well as the recommends. Here is a short paste of what this means:
Depends:
libc6, libstdc++6, libgcc1, boost-filesystem, boost-thread, boost-date-time, boost-system
Recommends:
boost-date-time, boost-filesystem, boost-graph, boost-iostreams, boost-program-options, boost-python, boost-regex, boost-serialization, boost-signals, boost-system, boost-test, boost-thread
There are probably some other packages/lib that might make sense to directly have in the OS image, but they currently don't come to my mind, so I can't list them here. ;) |
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96 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Customizable SD mount options | Closed | |
Task Description
Right now writes are really slow because they write synchronously: there should be an option to change this so that the user is first taught how to unmount an sd card then remove it... |
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97 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | Missing kernel-module-snd-usb-audio | Closed | |
Task Description
Missing kernel-module-snd-usb-audio would be nice to hook the pandora up to my logitec speakers and have audio out and a hub for hooking up other devices at the same time... |
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103 | Base OS | Feature Request | Low | OpenAL library in firmware? | Closed | |
Task Description
Is there any chance we can have OpenAL installed as a default library? I'm considering porting some software that requires it (and truth be told I manually compiled and installed it for my own use atm...) |
