3 "zavai" is a word of the Bolognese language which means "useless thing of no
4 value". The idea that I'm trying to do what I can with what I have.
6 It is written with the purpose of working for me; everything else is optional.
7 Feature requests for things that I don't need will likely be ignored unless
8 of course they come with patches.
12 * Install dependencies
15 apt-get install valac libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgee-dev libgtk2.0-dev libwnck-dev libdevkit-power-gobject-dev
18 apt-get install devicekit-power
21 apt-get install polygen polygen-data
27 * Install dbus.d configuration file
29 cp conf/zavai.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
31 * Copy the .desktop files of the applications you use more often in ~/.zavai
36 cp /usr/share/applications/tangogps.desktop ~/.zavai
37 cp /usr/share/applications/navit.desktop ~/.zavai
38 cp /usr/share/applications/vala-terminal.desktop ~/.zavai
39 cp /usr/share/applications/midori.desktop ~/.zavai
40 cp /usr/share/applications/zhone.desktop ~/.zavai
41 cp /usr/share/applications/FBReader.desktop ~/.zavai
42 cp conf/satmon.desktop ~/.zavai
44 * Copy accessory scripts in ~/.zavai
46 cp hooks/display ~/.zavai
47 cp hooks/keyboard ~/.zavai
49 * Update the information about the polygen grammars installed in the system
52 src/update-polygen-info
58 This will run zavai and restart it if it quits/crashes. If you want to
59 restart zavai (for example after you build a new version) just choose
66 Push the power button to get the power menu, with options to
67 suspend/shutdown/reboot, lock the screen and keep the backlight always on
68 (useful if you are using the openmoko as a satellite navigator in the car)
72 Hold the power button longer to lock / unlock the screen. If the screen is
73 locked you see a lock icon in the traybar.
75 A short push of the power button while locked will turn on the backlight for a
76 bit, which is useful if you want to check the map for a moment. Another short
77 push will show the main zavai window, which is useful if you want to see the
78 time. Another short push will hide the main zavai window.
82 In the main window you see the time. If your GPS has a fix, the time comes
85 In the top left there is a gps icon. Push it to toggle the GPS to be always on
86 (useful to restart tangogps or navit without needing to reacquire a fix).
88 In the bottom there is a button to access the main menu.
92 Zavai shows several tray bar buttons. One kills the current application (or
93 goes back in the menu if the current application is zavai).
95 One hides and shows zavai.
97 One hides and shows the keyboard.
99 One shows the status of the battery.
103 The menu should be self-explanatory. It has options for simple GPS management
104 tasks, setting an alarm, running applications, a task switcher, and a polygen
109 It is possible to set an alarm, which will be shown in the alarm window. When
110 the alarm expires, the phone wakes up if it is suspended, and zavai vibrates
113 It is planned to use the AUX button to acknowledge the alarm and stop the
114 vibration; when this will happen, vibration can go on for more than 5 seconds.
116 When I'll implement some audio playing infrastructure, I'll implement playing
117 an audio file as well.
119 Also missing are a popup that tells that an alarm is ringing, and a notifier
120 for unacknowledged popups.
124 Details: the alarms are scheduled with at(1). Please see omhacks for simple
125 suspend hooks that will wake up the phone to run scheduled at jobs.
129 You can reach the calendar from the menu or by clicking on the date in the
132 The calendar shows notes on every day. You can add notes just by typing on the
133 white space below the calendar.
135 The notes are saved in ~/.zavai/cal/YEAR/MONTH/DAY.txt, feel free to:
136 - sync it with your main computer;
137 - create a tool that populates it using the information from your
138 favourite calendar system;
139 - interface zavai with a proper calendar system, without making the interface
140 harder to use (if you can).
144 Zavai currently focuses on the interface side, trying to make it easy for me
145 to reach the functions that I need. I try not to focus on hardware details
146 (yet) (when I can), so I build it on the freesmartphone framework, which is
147 unstable, underdocumented and sometimes untested, whose developers so far have
148 never answered my questions and whose API tends to change every now and again.
150 This said, I'm surprised it works for me so far.
152 TODO list / wish list
154 * FSO API "documentation":
155 http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html;hb=HEAD
158 - fisheye list music player
159 - player page with seek/skip controls
161 - chosen song start playing if nothing is being played
162 - chosen song moves to playlist editor: play, add to playlist, add dir to playlist
163 (show a standard list multiselectable with all the songs in the dir and
164 only the selected song selected; allow to select others, select all, add
165 selected to playlist)
166 - playlist as reorderable standard list, allow to delete tracks, reorder tracks
167 - save playlist to file to reload later
168 - pause with headset button
169 - volume control in power menu
170 - space buttons from sliders, to avoid shutting down instead of lowering the volume
172 - battery without devkit: do the parsing via lua
173 - contacts: show as a fancy focus+context list (see prefuse)
174 - vcard on e-vcard.{h,c}
175 - ical on libical-dev
177 - lua functions to read things
178 - zavai-calendar as a separate app
179 - zavai-contacts as a separate app
181 - vibrate at alarm trigger
182 - play sound at alarm trigger
183 - acknowledge alarms with AUX button
184 - then, vibrate and play sound for longer
185 - popup that tells that an alarm is ringing
186 - leave expired alarm on screen until acknowledged
187 (alarm status icon that also brings to alarm menu)
188 - remember alarm names (on request, maybe with an add feature) and how
189 often they are triggered, and show them most frequent first
190 - remember unexpired alarms persistently (again, a table in sqlite?) so
191 that they can be reinstated if zavai is restarted
192 - show active alarms and allow to delete them
194 + power on/off the gps and start/stop gpsd
195 + set to keep the GPS on during suspend
196 - use the gpsd protocol to know if there is a fix or not
197 - suspend/resume hooks to put the GPS into low power mode
198 - next30: don't update if not shown currently on the notebook
199 - gtk_calendar_set_detail_func
200 - GSM power and network
201 - link to open SHR-dialer
202 - icon to show if there are new messages
203 - link to open SHR-messages
204 - switch backlight keep mode when on power/recharging
205 - the button changes the default for the current power mode
206 - unlock screen when receiving phone calls
207 - GPX status icon (off, waiting for fix, recording)
208 - GPX waypoint using AUX button
210 - track EPV (and similar) in gpx and kill trackpoints with bad accuracy
212 - shortcut icon in main screen
216 - start/stop wicd-client
217 - Simple wireless scanner (code from guessnet, or minimal wicd client)
218 - Suspend phone if not calling and gps is not on and backlight is not on
219 (maybe with idle notifier?)
220 - Phone from kapula (or just running kapula)
222 - Location aware (show timezones in order of distance from current
224 - Show timezone in clock
227 + Why sometimes the phone will stop acting normal and will completely ignore
228 the screen for the purpose of screen dimming, that is, it will dim the
229 screen even if I'm using the touchscreen? (it was old ousaged brokenness)
230 - Is there a way to lock the screen completely turning off the touchscreen, so
231 that interrupts are not even generated?
233 * Not quite needed yet:
234 - GPX log with more features (quality, course, speed, ...)
235 - Take a waypoint then show a menu with a timeout
236 - Add a scribbled note
238 - Add a text note (tickling the text input method thing)
239 If timeout expires, leave the waypoint with the automatic name
240 - get fix events without requesting the GPX resource (and then? gpx log all the time? what for?)