il·lume (ĭ-lōōm') tr.v. To illuminate.
Bringing light to the darkness of the mobile world.
Illume is a module for Enlightenment that modifies the user interface of enlightenment to work cleanly and nicely on a mobile device - such as an Openmoko phone. It is currently geared more for a 480x640 (VGA) portrait mode screen but can be trivially modified to work on QVGA or any other resolution. The Final goal is to have it work on a wide range of resolutions seamlessly.
It combines an application launcher interface along with an application manager and switcher, virtual keyboard support, as well as forcing certain simple layout policies on applications (such as making their main windows borderless and fullscreen except for Illume's control bar), as well as support for the X11 port of qtopia.
Here is how to get started and install Illume on your desktop and try it out. This would also allow development on it, adding features you need and testing them. For this you will want code. First you will want Enlightenment's latest and greatest. How much do you want? You can get the whole repository, or just the bits you need. If you want the whole thing in one checkout, please see http://svn.enlightenment.org for information. If you want to just get a quick script that does it for you try http://www.rasterman.com/files/get_e.sh - this script will check out only the bits of SVN you need. It also assumes you have sudo root access and if on Ubuntu or Debian it will try and install packages known to be needed for building, or useful. Read the script if you are not sure. If it doesn't know what distribution you use, you will need to try and have a working compiler, autotools etc. etc. yourself. Once you have run this and built and installed everything you will need illume, so fetch it with:
svn checkout http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/e/src/modules/illume/
Now you just need to build it like everything else. (it is assumed you know about CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PATH etc. in installing software and compiling it). Illume compiles like everything else in E land - standard autotools, so (in Illume's source directory):
./autogen.sh make sudo make install
This will compile and install Illume. As Illume is a module, not a program in its own right, you need to run it with Enlightenment, so use the provided run-script:
./x-ui.sh
and if you have Xephyr installed and everything went ok, a 480x640 window will pop up - with Enlightenment in it on your DISPLAY=:1 X display with all your system's app icons there.
The bar at the top
The gadgets in the Slipshelf
The icons you see on the desktop
Illume's own virtual keyboard and protocol and vkbd setup.
Short answer:
opkg install illume-config-illume
Detailed answer:
#Get the qwerty button if not there yet opkg install illume-config #Turn off built-in qtopia keyboard #Add/modify "export QTOPIA_NO_VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD=1" in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89qtopia opkg install illume-config-illume #Purge E's cache rm -rf ~/.e/e/config/illume #Restart X /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
Then switch keyboard from "None" to "Default" in Illume's preferences.
Tips when the howto over doesn't work: See Keyboard Toggle or change /etc/enlightenment/default_profile to point to the illume profile instead of asu.
lists all possible words in order to choose the right one
icon | type | package | comments |
terminal | English QWERTY layout | Installed by default. | |
terminal | Dutch QWERTY layout | Based upon QWERTY terminal layout. | |
terminal | French AZERTY layout | Based upon QWERTY terminal layout. TODO: Icon needs AZERTY overlay. | |
terminal | Norwegian QWERTY layout | Based upon QWERTY terminal layout. | |
terminal | Russian ЙЦУКЕН layout | Based upon QWERTY terminal layout. TODO: Icon needs ЙЦУКЕН overlay. | |
terminal | Dvorak layout | Based upon QWERTY terminal layout. | |
alphanumeric | English QWERTY layout | Installed by default. | |
alphanumeric | English QWERTY layout with more space between the keys | Based upon QWERTY alphanumeric layout. Asymmetric and optimized for right handed finger input. | |
alphanumeric | Hebrew פםןךטא layout | In case there are squares instead of Hebrew letters, change illume's font. | |
alphanumeric | Danish QWERTY layout | Based upon QWERTY alphanumeric layout. | |
alphanumeric | German QWERTZ layout | Based upon QWERTY alphanumeric layout. | |
alphanumeric | Perisan QWERTZ layout | Based upon QWERTY alphanumeric layout. TODO: Create new icon for the Persian alphabet of پﺏﺍ like the transparent ABC. | |
numeric | Numeric layout | Installed by default. | |
numeric | Numeric layout with bigger numbers and numeric layout with function keys | Good for playing games in ScummVM. | |
numeric | Alternative numeric layout | Major improvement on numeric layout. |
Icons are created by hand in a 25x25 PNG with the GIMP according to color picker values of flags in Wikipedia. The reason for this is, that no rescaling or ant-alias artifacts will emerge in this small raster. Subsequently, import this in Inkscape and type the characters. Note that for keyboard layout that are not connected to a single particular country, like Persian, no flag backgrouns is needed. Each character is typed twice in Arial Black or bold Arial. For alphanumeric, use the ABC of that language, for 'QWERTY' use the 6 first characters on the top row, note that for languages that read from richt to left is to use 'first'/last 6 characters on the right side. One characters is white with a black border of 0.5 and one is black without border but with a blur of 15 (see CTRL+SHIFT+F slider at the bottom). Reposition the whole lot and put everything in the correct layer. Export a 25x25 PNG with the background bitmap, which is also the selected export area, and you are done. TODO: Rasterman, can you verify this and improve this procedure where needed?
/usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/keyboards
/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart
##KBDCONF-1.0 kbd 450 150 # keyboard type e.g. TERMINAL, ALPHA (this one shows up when writing an sms), NUMERIC, SYMBOL type TERMINAL # an icon for the keyboard so you know which one you have icon qwerty.png #key x-coordinate y-coordinate width-of-key height-of-key #columns: #state symbol(shown on the key) keysym(output of the key) key 0 0 30 30 normal ` grave shift ~ asciitilde capslock ` grave
a list of keysyms can be found here
How to configure illume via its own config dialog
What is this dbus goop?
Raster explains mostly everything in this and that thread. We still need a good synthesis though.