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@@ -13,12 +13,9 @@ Getting it to work:
 
    # Build time
    apt-get install valac libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgee-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
 
    # Build time
    apt-get install valac libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgee-dev libgtk2.0-dev \

-                   libwnck-dev libdevkit-power-gobject-dev \
+                   libwnck-dev \

                    libomhacks-dev liblua5.1-dev
 
                    libomhacks-dev liblua5.1-dev
 

-   # Runtime
-   apt-get install devicekit-power
-

    # Optional runtime
    apt-get install polygen polygen-data
 
    # Optional runtime
    apt-get install polygen polygen-data
 


@@ -109,22 +106,27 @@ Features / guide
  * Alarms
 
  It is possible to set an alarm, which will be shown in the alarm window. When
  * Alarms
 
  It is possible to set an alarm, which will be shown in the alarm window. When

- the alarm expires, the phone wakes up if it is suspended, and zavai vibrates
- for 5 seconds.
+ the alarm expires, the phone wakes up if it is suspended, and zavai vibrates,
+ turns on baclight, shows a big ACK button and flashes the AUX led for 30
+ seconds. It also plays some music.

 
 

- It is planned to use the AUX button to acknowledge the alarm and stop the
- vibration; when this will happen, vibration can go on for more than 5 seconds.
+ You can use the big button on screen or the AUX button to acknowledge the
+ alarm and stop all the attention-seeking activities.

  
  

- When I'll implement some audio playing infrastructure, I'll implement playing
- an audio file as well.
+ If you want to change the alarm ringtone, you can set:
+ ringtone_alarm = "file:///some/where/file.ext"
+ in ~/.zavai/config; gstreamer is used, so mostly any audio file format will
+ work. I'm not sure what will happen if you choose a video format: that might
+ work as well.

 
 

- Also missing are a popup that tells that an alarm is ringing, and a notifier
- for unacknowledged popups.
+ Alarms (acknowledged or not) are logged in "~/.zavai/log-alarm/". Still
+ missing, howerver, is a way to show that an alarm rang and noone noticed.

 
  Patches welcome.
 
 
  Patches welcome.
 

- Details: the alarms are scheduled with at(1). Please see omhacks for simple
- suspend hooks that will wake up the phone to run scheduled at jobs.
+ Details: the alarms are scheduled with at(1): they stay scheduled even if
+ zavai is restarted, and you can see them with "atq". Please see omhacks for
+ simple suspend hooks that will wake up the phone to run scheduled at jobs.

 
  * Calendar
 
 
  * Calendar
 


@@ -141,6 +143,21 @@ Features / guide
   - interface zavai with a proper calendar system, without making the interface
     harder to use (if you can).
 
   - interface zavai with a proper calendar system, without making the interface
     harder to use (if you can).
 

+ * GSM
+
+ If you have a pin, add 'sim_pin = "1234"' to ~/.zavai/config
+
+ Don't start frameworkd at boot. Get rid of fso-usaged from your system (it
+ will be started by dbus when frameworkd starts, if it's there).
+
+ Now you can use zavai to turn on GSM, including powering up the antenna and
+ providing the PIN if required by the SIM.
+
+ It does not currently do anything else beside turning things on. It is useful,
+ however, to make GSM services available to simple scripts like SMS or contact
+ list dump tools.
+
+

 Stability / design
 
  Zavai currently focuses on the interface side, trying to make it easy for me
 Stability / design
 
  Zavai currently focuses on the interface side, trying to make it easy for me


@@ -156,25 +173,44 @@ TODO list / wish list
  * FSO API "documentation":
  http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html;hb=HEAD
 
  * FSO API "documentation":
  http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/index.html;hb=HEAD
 

+using vala-dbus-binding-tool:
+  mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect > /tmp/api.xml
+  vi /tmp/api.xml
+  convert to xml: 
+    remove quotes at begin and end
+    :$s/\n/^M/g
+  mkdir /tmp/foo
+  vala-dbus-binding-tool --directory=/tmp/foo --api-path=/tmp/api.xml
+
+  Async and D-Bus:
+  http://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/tests/dbus/async.test
+

  * Features to add:
  * Features to add:

- - check gobject introspection and dynamic loading
-    - there could be a basic loader core that just dynamically loads bits as
-      available/needed. Only the battery icon and calendar can be loaded on a
-      laptop, while on the moko one can also load the power menu.
-      Different bits can effectively work as plugins, to be there or not.
-      Alternative plugins can be loaded based on different technologies, too (a
-      gpsd satellite monitor, or a fso satellite monitor).
- - zavai does not look good in landscape mode
-    - replace menus with a widget taking a list of actions, which then lays
-      them out according to the screen size
- - set backlight with Randr (xrandr --prop shows "Backlight: 4 (0x00000004)    range:  (0,15)")
-   and xbacklight uses it
-   (note: the property is not available on the freerunner atm, it would be only
-    for desktop systems, to avoid chowning the device under /sys/something)
- - volume control in power menu "Amp Spk"
-   (-> learn/test libalsamixer something)
-   /usr/share/vala/vapi/alsa.vapi
- - space buttons from sliders, to avoid shutting down instead of lowering the volume
+ - if GPS time is more than 1 minute and less than 1 hour different than the
+   system time, automatically sync it
+   if GPS time is more than 1 hour different than the system time, show a
+   "SYNC" button that will sync it if pressed
+ - log
+    - flash aux when there are unacknowledged log entries
+    - write data to disk as log happens (to have at least partial logs if power
+      is cut)
+    - more detailed GPX data (dop, elev..)
+    - message (structured) (json?)
+ - turn on/off gsm
+    - pick up phone call
+       - phone call applet (pushed when picking up)
+          - buttons for dtmf
+         - button for hold
+         - button for hangup
+       - icon in main screen (to go back to applet if going around zavai during
+        phone call)
+   to "move" the GSM device to my laptop:
+    socat FILE:/dev/ttySAC0 TCP-LISTEN:12345,bind=192.168.0.202
+    socat TCP:192.168.0.202:12345 PTY,link=/tmp/gps,raw,echo=0
+ - alarm
+    - remember alarm names (on request, maybe with an add feature) and how
+      often they are triggered, and show them most frequent first
+    - show active alarms and allow to delete them

  - fisheye list music player
    (-> learn/test gstreamer libs)
     - player page with seek/skip controls
  - fisheye list music player
    (-> learn/test gstreamer libs)
     - player page with seek/skip controls


@@ -187,37 +223,31 @@ TODO list / wish list
     - playlist as reorderable standard list, allow to delete tracks, reorder tracks
     - save playlist to file to reload later
     - pause with headset button
     - playlist as reorderable standard list, allow to delete tracks, reorder tracks
     - save playlist to file to reload later
     - pause with headset button

- - battery without devkit: do the parsing via lua
+ - audio notes
+    - record audio notes, logging start and stop so it gets an associated GPX
+    - shortcut icon in main screen
+ - zavai does not look good in landscape mode
+    - replace menus with a widget taking a list of actions, which then lays
+      them out according to the screen size
+ - set backlight with Randr (xrandr --prop shows "Backlight: 4 (0x00000004)    range:  (0,15)")
+   and xbacklight uses it
+   (note: the property is not available on the freerunner atm, it would be only
+    for desktop systems, to avoid chowning the device under /sys/something)
+ - volume control in power menu "Amp Spk"
+   (-> learn/test libalsamixer something)
+   /usr/share/vala/vapi/alsa.vapi
+ - space buttons from sliders, to avoid shutting down instead of lowering the volume
+ - battery: do the parsing via lua

  - contacts: show as a fancy focus+context list (see prefuse)
     - vcard on e-vcard.{h,c}
     - ical on libical-dev
     - vcard+index file
     - lua functions to read things
  - contacts: show as a fancy focus+context list (see prefuse)
     - vcard on e-vcard.{h,c}
     - ical on libical-dev
     - vcard+index file
     - lua functions to read things

- - zavai-calendar as a separate app

  - zavai-contacts as a separate app
  - zavai-contacts as a separate app

- - alarm
-    + Alarm queue manager
-       - enqueue_trigger()
-       - ack(id)
-       - cancel(id)
-       - signals: triggered(info), acked(info), canceled(info)
-    + vibrate at alarm trigger
-    - Aux interface widget
-       - blink and input
-       - do alarm notification
-    - play sound at alarm trigger
-    - leave expired alarm on screen until acknowledged
-      (alarm status icon that also brings to alarm menu)
-    - remember alarm names (on request, maybe with an add feature) and how
-      often they are triggered, and show them most frequent first
-    - show active alarms and allow to delete them
- - work without ogpsd
-    + power on/off the gps and start/stop gpsd
-    + set to keep the GPS on during suspend
-    - use the gpsd protocol to know if there is a fix or not
-    - suspend/resume hooks to put the GPS into low power mode
- - next30: don't update if not shown currently on the notebook
- - gtk_calendar_set_detail_func
+ - calendar
+    - next30: don't update if not shown currently on the notebook
+    - gtk_calendar_set_detail_func
+ - GPS FixNow mode for sleeping

  - GSM power and network
     - link to open SHR-dialer
  - icon to show if there are new messages
  - GSM power and network
     - link to open SHR-dialer
  - icon to show if there are new messages


@@ -229,12 +259,6 @@ TODO list / wish list
  - GPX waypoint using AUX button
  - GPX + Audio track
  - track EPV (and similar) in gpx and kill trackpoints with bad accuracy
  - GPX waypoint using AUX button
  - GPX + Audio track
  - track EPV (and similar) in gpx and kill trackpoints with bad accuracy

- - Audio note
-    - shortcut icon in main screen
- - Toggle wireless
-    - turn on/off chip
-    - start/stop wicd
-    - start/stop wicd-client

  - Simple wireless scanner (code from guessnet, or minimal wicd client)
  - Suspend phone if not calling and gps is not on and backlight is not on
    (maybe with idle notifier?)
  - Simple wireless scanner (code from guessnet, or minimal wicd client)
  - Suspend phone if not calling and gps is not on and backlight is not on
    (maybe with idle notifier?)