licentious radio

Sunday, June 23, 2002
[5:45:31 PM]

Meanwhile, the mailing list archive at handhelds.org has changed a bunch of urls. You can find things in Google's cache, but any links from the cached item will be as broken as the regular links in the search results, or any links in archived email messages.

This is a disaster, given that searching the mailing list is basically your only hope of finding useful information.

[3:59:49 PM]
Using opie.

It looks ok. The handwriting is a little weird, but mostly works fine. I can't figure out how to enter "control" so I can save a document in nano, though. I switch to the keyboard, press the control key combination, then switch back to handwriting recognition.

Konqueror is much nicer to use than Dillo. It's mostly a matter of less wasted chrome, but it also supports javascript and lets me magnify text. No css, alas. What's up with that? Konqueror also fails to display character entities -- at least everywhere I've seen Konqueror. Why is that hard? Are they asleep?

The biggest gui flaw is that there's no way to get to the application-launching tabs while an application is running. Not that they really need the tabs, but if they're there, why not let them be useful.

Oops. I just found the Set Application Key program on the settings menu. This makes it easy to assign software to the buttons. One of the buttons is assigned to "Home", and that means to display the tabs.

The media player is beyond me, and crashed the system. Maybe someone else knows how to make it work.

I will admit that I want a Mine Hunt game. Opie's is decent. The tap and hold is better than Palm's game. But Palm's doesn't have a stupid smiley face. Why should a gui be degrading?

In fact, tap-and-hold is the big advantage of opie over x-windows with the ICE window manager.

I found the "Today" setting so it wouldn't come up whenever I turn the power on. But changing the setting didn't affect the behavior. The good news is that opie lets you uninstall "Today". (Wince 3.0 doesn't let you do that.)