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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
To use Powerlaunch, you don't need to learn an arcane language at all. You need to learn the arcane language to make the N800 work the way Karel misses. Just don't get a brain transplant, and you won't miss what he misses.

But Powerlaunch is a good thing to add.
Actually, the old way was to change one line in mce.ini. I even wrote up a step by step guide on this forum on how to do it.

I've looked at Powerlauch and it makes my brain hurt. Apparently there's a default mode when you install it that kinda mimicks mce.ini's behaviour, but I never liked that behaviour and I have absolutely no idea how to get it to do what I want; to call the documentation on the home site "spartan" would be a compliment: it's basically a man page of the daemon which, for such an important function that is supposed to be for the average enduser, is a joke.

Frankly, this program should come with a graphical front-end, especially as the announced functionality includes use of the Itablet's buttons to control arbitrary applications.

But hey! I couldn't care less. When I get my Pandora, the N800 will join my 770 as a rarely-used ebook-reader. Or maybe I'll turn them into digital photo frames. I have no intention of continuing to spend much energy on a device that repeatedly gets crippled by its own manufacturer. Enough is enough...
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