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Originally Posted by yifanlu
So I want to start working on the GUI package manager/launcher
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Does anyone have any input on this? What features should be implemented? What should I consider? etc.
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I was planning to use something like a GUI-enhanced launchpad hack, but use "Menu Menu" to popup my framebuffer-based menu. I really like your idea of just inserting your launcher as the first item in the existing menu. That could interfere with programs that send macro key sequences. It would have to integrate with TTS for blind users as well (Voice Guide)...
I think it needs to be user-configurable via a menu (not a config file) for users who like GUIs and NOT command lines. It needs a few basic integrated tools installed WITH it, including basic notepad, calculator, and clock/calendar apps, and a console (like myts-6). Versions of these may be found in other threads in this forum. Larger apps like hawhill's PDF reader would be add-ons that integrate into this GUI menu.
I *really* would like it to run on all kindle models though, which would probably require at least two completely different implementations underneath, but should look the same at the GUI level.
I plan to integrate a mini_fo copy-on-write filesystem as used in OpenWrt, so we can "virtually" hack the root fs all we want, without changing the real root (other than an init script and mini_fo.ko module).
Also, I think that for maintenance reasons, there should be only ONE jailbreak for both SO and non-SO kindles, but it should check for and enforce SO (not even allow disabling it if it was SO when first jailbroken). Unless there is an easy way to see that somebody paid to disable SO, the jailbreak would probably need to be reinstalled after the amazon update disables SO. It would be better to detect an official amazon SO disable though.