Thread: [Announce] advanced-systemui (ASUI)
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auouymous is offline auouymous
2010-10-20 , 03:29
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Thank you for the feedback.

Disabling widgets that use cpu, like the clock which is updated every 10 seconds, is one thing but getting rid of other widgets or decreasing their size is only important if there are new widgets to take their place, otherwise you have holes in the UI. Once all the major features are complete I will work on UI customization to disable widgets or change their size and placement.

The ASUI window does not redraw itself after a notification (such as "Offline mode activated") is displayed.
Is this after you press the flight mode button in asui? The window should be redrawn 2 seconds after opening it with the power button if you changed flight mode from another app. I need to know more about the exact problem you are having.

Zoom buttons controlling rotation is not good UI (The buttons are better used to control audio volume.)
I'll add a setting to allow them to be used for volume instead.

he actual rotation of the ASUI interface is painfully slow
It gets slower when you have other windows open because each process must handle the rotation event and resize its window. It takes one second on my n810 with two other windows and no applets on the desktop.

Rather than try to rotate the ASUI window on rotate, how about just closing the window? It's fast enough to re-open it, and typically I wouldn't expect the user to be changing that setting and doing something else?
Actual steps: rotate, open temporary window with rotation message, close asui window, reopen asui window, remap asui window and close temporary window. The close/open could be replaced with a resize command but I was originally closing the display as well to get the correct screen dimensions and now I'm just swapping the existing dimensions and haven't got around to switching the rest of the code over to not closing and reopening the window, which could be a lot faster and not require the temporary window that masks out the rotation process of windows below it.

I will also add a setting to eliminate the asui remap when using the on-screen rotation buttons to allow for quick rotations without the need to manually close asui afterwards.

Don't bother displaying "0 lux" on N800, as there is no light meter. Similarly, I don't need a GPS status window, but obviously that's a big piece of the UI. Calendar & clock is nice but not necessary
I'll get rid of the lux on n800 so it doesn't waste cpu querying the sensor. The GPS services are probably needed for external bluetooth devices.

It's unclear why shutting down Desktop services would ever be useful; a lot of real estate used here for minimal value.
I often stop it so I can run more programs. It's also good to restart the desktop when it or its plugins are leaking memory or using a lot of cpu. Just a couple weeks ago someone on this forum was looking for an easy way to restart the desktop.

For WiFi, that space could be used for more detailed information display; maybe also for Bluetooth, but I don't have a BT device so I don't know. GPS is just On or Off, right?
Bluetooth shows device name and number of connected devices. GPS will be on, off or connecting and display number of satelites.

Use "WiFi", not "WIFI". On that indicator, rather than showing the GUID, can't you show the user-friendly name of the connection? Can you show the IP address? Signal strength?
I've been meaning to change to WiFi for quite some time now.

The GUID must be an n800 problem because it shows connection name on the n810. Added to bug list. Does it correctly show "connecting..." or "connected" in the widget?

Added signal strength and maybe IP address to the list.

Can the SSH indicator show number of SSH connections?
Excellent idea!

Can the process list be given a filter to hide stuff that normally nobody would care about? It's such a long list of items and most of them are unimportant.
This is a tough one. I could add a setting to hide the kernel threads since they consume no memory and it could only show them when they are consuming cpu (damn ksoftirq using 100% cpu and draining my battery!!). But most of the information you need is contained at the top of the first page and scrolling is only required to see the less important stuff that uses almost no ram and isn't running. Filtering out processes would increase the code and cpu usage for stuff that isn't even visible. What type of filtering would you suggest?

what I really want is a Go Dark Now button. This would be useful for the following situations: (1) tablet is plugged in, system setting is "do not dim when plugged in", but I want the screen to go black anyway; (2) I am playing a game and so have set the delay period to a full two minutes (see below), but I want to pause the game and have the screen go dark without waiting for the two minutes to elapse.
If you check the "lock screen and keys" option in the control panel then the lock button will lock and turn off the display immediately. This feature does not work when connected to the charger. It could be that "keep screen lit when charging" option and I could have asui uncheck it, blank the screen and recheck it when the screen is unlocked but messing around with the user's settings probably isn't a good idea.

Better control over the dim/black-delay periods would be really nice. I envision allowing two or three selectable presets -- for instance, "normal" and "game", where "normal" is 45sec/60sec and "game" is 105sec/120sec (for the dim/black times). Then in the UI, I would just select the preset (similar to the CPU governor menu).
Added to the list.

A Mute button in addition to setting audio levels is desirable, otherwise I need the standard Audio status indicator turned on.
Isn't mute just zero volume?

I've not figured out if having a USB OTG setting, like Advanced Power does, is useful, but that might be a good feature for ASUI.
Its already on the list.
 

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