Mokosuite - Revision history

Daniele athome: POWER button correction

2010-09-07T14:19:42Z

POWER button correction

Vanous: /* Hardware buttons */

2010-09-07T10:27:45Z

‎Hardware buttons

Vanous: gitorious

2010-09-07T10:26:33Z

gitorious

Vanous: /* Libmokosuite */ buttons

2010-09-07T10:25:16Z

‎Libmokosuite: buttons

Daniele athome: User change

2010-08-30T22:18:43Z

User change

Vanous: /* Libmokosuite */

2010-08-30T20:23:11Z

‎Libmokosuite

Vanous: initial commit

2010-08-30T20:21:52Z

initial commit

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{{Languages|Mokosuite}}

<onlyinclude>
{{ApplicationBox|
Name=[[Mokosuite]]|
Description=Elementary based phone suite |
Screenshot=MokoWM.png |
Homepage=svn://svn.casaricci.it/openmoko/trunk|
TestedOn=SHR |
PackageName=mokosuite2
}}
</onlyinclude>

{{application|Mokosuite}}

=Overview=

The mokosuite phone suite package is made up several components. Outside the mokosuite tree there is mokowm-imf-ecore, an input method module for
Ecore.

{|align=center
|__TOC__
|}

{|
| [[Image:Mokohome.png|200px|thumb|Launcher]]
| [[Image:Mokosettings.png|200px|thumb|Settings]]
| [[Image:Mokokeyboard.png|200px|thumb|Keyboard]]
| [[Image:Mokopanel.png|200px|thumb|Panel]]
|}

=Installation=

Installation on SHR:

opkg install mokosuite2

=The phone application=

The phone application is used to actually make phone calls. It manages also
the actual connection to the GSM network.
The phone app has an integrated call log and contacts list, for now stored in
SQLite databases. My idea is to write my own implementation of opimd backed by
mokophone.

When a phone call starts or is incoming, the phone app sends notification
through D-Bus to the panel, creating a green active call icon and filling the
notification list with the current active call. If a call gets lost, another
notification is pushed to the panel (with a red lost call icon :)

=The messages application=

There is actually a stub with some builtin messages, but my objective is to
modify some of the opimd specs to accomplish a more threaded message management.
This shall be discussed with mickeyl or anyone else is involved. We should find
a way to make a custom SQL query, optimized for retrieving information about
SMS threads, not wasting resources.

I still have to decide to integrate e-mail support with sms... but I don't know,
there are many points of view about this approach.

=The settings application=

This app is in charge to manage much all of the aspects of the suite and of the
phone itself. For now it manages only a few things, but it's going to be a very
big application :)

=The mail application=

Much TODO :)

=The window manager=
[[Image:Mokodesk2.png|thumb]]
As of now, mokowm is a veeeery basic X window manager based on Ecore_X APIs,
which have made things very easy. However, a phone window manager should do
many things, and this will be a major part of the project.
The wm right now has also a builtin simple virtual keyboard, not very complete
yet, but working :)
It is activable using signals: USR1 to show, USR2 to hide (the input method
module actually sends a signal to the wm).

=Home and desktop=
[[Image:Mokohome.png|thumb]]
This app is the home for the application launchers and the desktop, which can
contain widgets (for now only launcher widgets :). At some point a public API
will be made available for writing widgets. They should not be D-Bus, but more
like module API.
In the close future there is a major issue to be fixed: single instance
launchers.

=The panel application=

The panel is responsible for the upper side panel window, showing push
notifications to the user as needed. There is also a notification list window,
activated by clicking the panel window itself at any point.
Notifications are pushed using a simple dbus API, available in a dbus xml file
in the source code repository.
The panel has also a idle screen (or screensaver) that inhibits the touchscreen
when is active, preventing any user action. Screensaver is hidden by pressing
the POWER button. The panel manages also display dimming.

=Libmokosuite=

The library is used by every app but the window manager. It contains a lot of
useful functions (primarly UI utilities) connected to notification management,
windows and dialogs, many fso and misc utilities, etc.
Actually my aim is to write a complete UI widget library (as extension to the
Elementary toolkit) for improving UI consinstency and co-operation.
The library includes a basic interface (not fully working actually) to the bluez
API, using Eggdbus (I wish to make it the primary Dbus library of the suite).

[[User:Daniele Ricci]]
[[Category:Phone Applications]]
[[Category:ApplicationsElementary]]

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 * AUX button short press - app close (applies also on keyboard)
-* AUX button long >2seconds press and release - go on home screen
+* AUX button long >2 seconds press and release - go on home screen
-* PWR button short press lock/unlock locked screen
+* POWER button short press (while screen locked) - unlock screen
 [[User:daniele_athome]]
 [[Category:Telephony]]
 [[Category:ApplicationsElementary]]

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 * AUX button short press - app close (applies also on keyboard)
 * AUX button long >2seconds press and release - go on home screen
-* PWR button short press unlock locked screen
+* PWR button short press lock/unlock locked screen
 [[User:daniele_athome]]
 [[Category:Telephony]]
 [[Category:ApplicationsElementary]]

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 API, using Eggdbus (I wish to make it the primary Dbus library of the suite).
 [[User:daniele_athome]]
 [[Category:Telephony]]
 [[Category:ApplicationsElementary]]

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-[[User:Daniele Ricci]]
+[[User:daniele_athome]]
 [[Category:Telephony]]
 [[Category:ApplicationsElementary]]

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    Description=Elementary based phone suite |
    Screenshot=MokoWM.png |
-   Homepage=svn://svn.casaricci.it/openmoko/trunk|
+   Homepage=http://gitorious.org/mokosuite2|
    TestedOn=SHR |
    PackageName=mokosuite2