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jolouis
2009-03-17 , 16:09
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OKay all, sorry for the long delays but I wanted to get all the basic features in and confirmed to be "day to day usable" before actually releasing.
BEFORE INSTALLING THIS VERSION, MAKE SURE YOU UN-INSTALL THE OLD ONE!!
So go ahead and give it a shot:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/5694/FlipClock_0.1.5_armel.deb
BEFORE INSTALLING THIS VERSION, MAKE SURE YOU UN-INSTALL THE OLD ONE!!
There have been a lot of changes, especially in the way the config file was handled, so make sure that you uninstall any previous versions of FC before installing this one so that you don't run into problems. Also note that FC now also depends on python2.5-gstreamer, so if you haven't got it installed make sure you do so before trying to install the above .deb.
A brief summary of changes:
- Power Management - The clock now sleeps (stops updating) when tablet is in idle mode. This saves CPU and battery life, and is generally a good thing all around.
- Alarm Page has been re-organized and updated a lot. The AM/PM switch has moved, the about button has gone away for the moment, etc. Alarms are now one per-day, recurring each week. So if you set an alarm for the Monday slot, it will happen at that time every monday, etc.
- Alarm Sounds - You can now choose your own MP3 to use as an alarm sound; simply press the big "Sound" button, and the file chooser should pop up. Currently ONLY MP3s WORK!! Don't try WAV, don't try .ogg, whatever... I mean, you can try, but don't expect the app to not crash...
- AlarmD - All alarms are now handled by the Maemo AlarmD daemon, which means that they have the ability to auto-launch the FlipClock when an alarm occurs, etc. However this does mean when setting alarms it takes an extra second or two to do the communications with AlarmD, so there's a nice little "wait a sec" thing that comes up to let you know this is happening. Sometimes I've found AlarmD can be a bit slow to respond, so if you see the wait message for a few seconds, don't worry, the clock didn't break, it's just taking a bit longer than usual to get AlarmD going....
- Snooze button now says how long it will snooze for, and again snooze is handled through AlarmD. At the moment snooze is statically set at 10 minutes, but future versions will make this customizable (the code is there, just no interface to control it yet).
A few important shortcommings/notes for this release:
- Mood and About are not working.
- Window mode... well, it's there, but I make no guarantees about anything... the whole mode is going to be reworked I think (maybe just a smaller version of the clock so that you can access task bars/etc but still see the clock?
- Don't look at the source code yet... lol I'm half way through re-jigging Ciro's original stuff, so there's a LOT of redundant and generally out of place coding still... if you want to take a look, go ahead, but it will make more sense by the time the next release comes along... a LOT more sense... trust me...
Anyways, as always, comments suggestions feedback etc. This is probably the first "beta" release (compared to Ciro's pre pre pre pre alphas) in that it's quite functional and stable enough to use every day, but not quite a complete feature set yet.
Thanks!
-Rob
Last edited by jolouis; 2009-03-18 at
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