osmo... in progress

[twobob]

http://clayo.org/osmo/

Few niggles still....

• Keyboard input (biggest bugbear TODO.)

Have to think about maybe either launching something xid like baf does in kterm or actually embedding a keyboard into the app...
fixed. went with a primarily native solution. configurable in an external script.

Of course there is not easy mechanism to launch the keys either... so may embed something in the menu/gtknotebooks... havent thought of a GREAT solution yet... a double-finger tap would be nice as a toggle perhaps???

Still no great key toggle solution.

• layout

setting the size on the PW / K5 is a bit of a faff as some windows are gtkscrolledwindows, some are windows, some are overlays on the dialog layer, blah, blah, blah. However that's mainly done. with the odd exception.
fixed - needs thorough testing on various device screen sizes

• Exiting the app

There is no way to leave at the moment as the application appears to expect window decoration. I think there is a right click menu in there somewhere that could be repurposed but yet to notice it. Now fixed

• scrollbars

I totally suck at gtk theming... any clues on making scrollbars a SENSIBLE width would be greatly appreciated.
Now fixed (thanks baf)


I managed to get the contact module to build (better than the debian version...) so the "complete support" is indeed there. "Backups" are disabled in the svn version so yeah... not my doing. when they become "available" again all the supporting libs are in place.

syncml support does not work ref: https://sourceforge.net/p/osmo-pim/bugs/31/


So yeah. WIP but getting there.

Happy to provide a complete diff of my works so far on svn revision 937 if anyone would like to help...

Thought I would shove up a few pics of the "so far"

root@dev:/usr/local/src/osmo-pim-code# CFLAGS="-march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -ftree-vectorize -ffast-math -mfloat-abi=softfp" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/mnt/us/extensions/osmo/usr/lib:/mnt/us/extensions/aspell/usr/lib:/mnt/us/extensions/gtkspell/usr/lib:/mnt/us/extensions/enchant/usr/lib/ -static-libstdc++" ./configure --prefix=/mnt/us/extensions/osmo/usr --enable-printing=no --enable-backup=yes --with-config-path=/mnt/us/extensions/osmo/usr --without-libsyncml

[twobob]

preferences is a bit of a pain to get sized right...
working on it.



http://sourceforge.net/p/osmo-pim/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

[thatworkshop]

Originally Posted by twobob

preferences is a bit of a pain to get sized right...
working on it.

http://sourceforge.net/p/osmo-pim/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

Looks really good! Who need a Notepad Plus, when there's twobob.
On another note, seriously, who really needs to buy any app, when we can make WAF apps in a breeze! I like WAF apps too.

[Aeris]

Great work, Twobob!!! I hope to help when you upload the KUAL app

About scrollbars: I've found this thread, but I suck in Gtk more then you so don't know if it helps:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1946788

[twobob]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Great work, Twobob!!! I hope to help when you upload the KUAL app

About scrollbars: I've found this thread, but I suck in Gtk more then you so don't know if it helps:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1946788

Thanks very much... I gave this go... seems to be ignored?

Will dig around in the guts see if I can figure out why. maybe baf knows.

[baf]

Originally Posted by twobob

Thanks very much... I gave this go... seems to be ignored?

Will dig around in the guts see if I can figure out why. maybe baf knows.

Default kindle gtkrc file, which can be overridden using env variable (GTK2_RC_FILES), defines some styles for GtkScrollbar and GtkScrolledWindow:

style "kindle-scrollbar"
{
    GtkScrollbar::has-backward-stepper  = 0
    GtkScrollbar::has-forward-stepper   = 0
    GtkScrollbar::slider-width          = 16
    GtkScrollbar::trough-border         = 0

…

style "kindle-scrolled-window"
{
    GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar-spacing = 2
}

…

class "GtkScrollbar" style "kindle-scrollbar"
class "GtkScrolledWindow" style "kindle-scrolled-window"

I remember I was able to change the look of scrollbars by modifying these styles. Did you try it?

EDIT:
I gave it a try.

[root@kindle root]# cat gtkrc
style "osmo-scrollbar"
{
       GtkScrollbar::slider-width          = 60
}
class "Gtk*Scrollbar" style "osmo-scrollbar"
[root@kindle root]# GTK2_RC_FILES=gtkrc ./osmo

It resizes scrollbars, but I am not sure it is a good solution. Now I remember I wanted to use it with skipstone, but finally decided it looks bad and takes too much space

[twobob]

will try!!! Thanks dude

[twobob]

okay so... some more progress...

laborious but.. getting there.

new improvements:

LATEST VERSION: Now building from SVN revision 937 rather than the older debian code.

QUIT BUTTON. will now display on all toolbars (regardless of preferences)



NATIVE KEYBOARD IN DIALOGS. It's a manual task of identifying every single one that needs one and setting them all up by hand.... The joy. But 1st one now done so... can be done. (and it closes intelligently on dialog closure)




TIME DOES NOT TICK EVERY SECOND. This allow for smoother scrolling in the calendar view and saves on pointless screen updates.



ABOUT SCREEN CLOSE BUTTON. I moved it to the top for those awkward moments when you manage to launch it accidentally with a keyboard up.
(I could have closed the keyboard but that would have meant more end user clicks so...)



Anyway. Thought I would report the progress.

[knc1]

I like it, I like it.
Specially for that 42 day month (4of4).
With that, I might even catch up on things that I want to get done.

[Aeris]

Ohhh great work! So impatient to try it out! Will you put matchbox keyboard at least in notes?

PS hope that it works like that on paperwhite too

[twobob]

The issue with launching matchbox keyboard is that - quite frankly - it is something else to go wrong. To yoke the keyboard like baf does "-xid" would require rewriting the guts of the apps layout.

But possibly, since the keyboard is now being manually invoked, there could ultimately be a version that invokes "your" version of matchbox keyboard for the notes section as you ask.

Once the app is at completion stage perhaps we could look at it?
Have to check but it does sound doable.


EDIT: Actually.. thinking about it... If I externalise all the calls to invoking the keyboard into a script then that would allow the user to twiddle "after the fact".

(In case that doesn't easily translate, Twiddling after the fact means changing the released setup)

yeah... okay... I'll make it a script... on that.

[Aeris]

Oh Twobob, you are so kind!

Don't worry about that, I was just asking! The first priority is only that the program works And above all I would be one of the few people using osmo notes as a true text-editor... That's beacause I've tried leafpad, but the official keyboard is really uncomfortable to me, especially for punctuation... but maybe other peoples find it handy for them.

I'm willing to help as soon as you release the kual extension, at least with bug-reporting (or maybe, if you teach me how to compile your code under my linux distro, I could try to edit the code on my own)

[twobob]

it's already done.

keyboard invocation is now pushed out to a script.

[Aeris]

Originally Posted by twobob

it's already done.

keyboard invocation is now pushed out to a script.

Simply the best!!

[twobob]

wasted the whole day trying to get spellchecker support working.

Will revisit another day.