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2008-04-13 , 22:12
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Ok, but softpoweroff is fixed with powerlaunch, App Muggr. works as well as ever AFAICT (and apt-get is fine), and we have builds of both OS2007 xterm and a non-broken OS2008 one from svn. Ok, home screen is useless, but that's the only one that you can argue is functionally holding you back; the rest are fixed, thanks to Nokia or not.
I have absolutely no idea how to make Powerlaunch work and I dare not install it. I've read the documentation pages and my only thought was: "WTF???!!!" And that's coming from someone who has (successfully) edited mce.ini...

We have been complaining about Application Mangler since day one and it's only got worse. It's now gone so far that I can no longer see package names. I agree that apt-get works (thank Bog for that!), but why is it seemingly so difficult to implement something that works?! Synaptic is a perfectly working package manager; as it now stands, it just gives the impression that Nokia doesn't want to admit defeat and replace its own cr*p by working community software. It's the Bluetooth débâcle all over again.

You may think that the defective home screen is a detail, but it happens to be the screen I have open the most.

As I don't have crapOS2008 installed, I haven't seen the xterm build for it. Does it do everything I can now do in my 2007 xterm?
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