Re: xgnokii xkeyb

[Pawel Kot]

Hi,

On 2/17/06, Daniele Forsi <address@hidden> wrote:
> The error message in xgnokii/xgnokii_xkeyb.c:GUI_ShowXkeyb
>
> "Cannot load background pixmap!"
>
> should be changed to suggest installing gnokii-artwork (of course :-) I
> hadn't yet installed it) or checking that the files are in the right
> place and readable and that the model is supported, but I can't think of
> a decent message right now

I know. I didn't care yet as it didn't work at all :-)

> OTOH the list of phones that have a background picture for the Keyboard
> is short and hardcoded, namely:
>
> 6110, 6120 "/xpm/keyb_6110.xpm"
> 6130, 6150, 616x, 6185, 6190 "/xpm/keyb_6150.xpm"
> 5110, 5130, 5160, 5190 "/xpm/keyb_5110.xpm"

I am aware of this. The question is how do we want this module to
behave. Should we have some default pixmap? Should we allow to change
phone skins? (like with logo preview)

> but more phones support pressing keys, so I'm thinking of a way to
> enable this menu and choose one of these skins at runtime, maybe in
> Options, and this could be done for the other menus that are enabled
> with flags in phoneMonitor.supported
> I wouldn't let the user save these but rather ask them to report here in
> the list what works so that can be set at compile time

Yes, definitely, but I'm not sure how (see above).

take care,
pkot
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