Today/2007.2

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Om 2007.2
Om 2008.8 is the successor of Om 2007.2


(Other distributions)


Contents

Overview

This article defines the second revision of the Today Application, an application designed for the Openmoko platform.

The Today application is the entry point for the user. It therefore resides on the 'desktop' of the phone, and is used for the following: 1) Quickly finding out the status of phone & calender related items. 2) Launch a new application. 3) Manage running applications i.e. Switch to or close a running application.

Use Cases

Here are some possible use cases:

  • I want to be able to view at a glance today's Calendar Events and To Do Items.
  • I want to launch an application.
  • I want to switch to a running application.

Core Functionality

(Italics = Done, Bold = In progress)

  • View network provider
  • Overview of missed calls and unread messages
  • options/settings ui
  • Overview of future events, tasks and alarms
  • Lock the phone to prevent accidental touch-screen press
  • Launch core applications
  • Launch dialer to view missed calls
  • Launch messages application to view unread messages
  • View all applications, with descriptions
  • Launch a selected application
  • Filter all applications by category
  • Filter all applications on name and description by custom search string
  • View running applications
  • Switch to running application
  • Close running application
  • Close all running applications

Layout Components

Application Area

Today Page

Today-main-arrows.png

  • 1) Title -- This is a global panel applet which automatically sets the title to the currently on screen application. It also provides a quick way to switch between running applications.
  • 2) Phone Group -- Has the network operator as the title, and shows the number of missed calls and unread SMS's.
  • 3) Calender Group -- Shows the time and date as the title, and has a list of calender items, todo's and reminders.
  • 4) Main Page -- Current page.
  • 5) Launch Task Page -- Switches to the Launch Task page, where the user can browse and launch applications.
  • 6) Running Tasks Page -- Switches to the Running Tasks page, where the user can switch to or close running applications.
  • 7) Quick Launch -- A tool-bar housing the most used applications.

Launch Task Page

Today-new-arrows.png

  • 1) Title
  • 2) Application List -- A list of available applications.
  • 3) Today Page -- Switches to the Today page.
  • 4) Launch Task Page -- Current Page.
  • 5) Running Tasks Page -- Switches to the Running Tasks page, where the user can switch to or close running applications.
  • 6) Search/Filter Menu -- This is used to filter the applications, either by clicking the search icon and typing in a string, or by clicking on the filter menu and choosing an application group.

Running Tasks Page

Today-running-arrows.png

  • 1) Title
  • 2) Switch To -- Switches to the highlighted application.
  • 3) Close -- Closes the highlighted application.
  • 4) Close All -- Closes all the running applications.
  • 5) Today Page -- Switches to the Today page.
  • 6) Launch Task Page -- Switches to the Launch Task page.
  • 7) Running Tasks Page -- Current Page.
  • 8) List Of Running Applications

Adjust UI components at runtime

  • default: this is from daily build default image

Todaypage reduced false.png

# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/reduced false
  • reduced: remove the upper application icons, no clock, and no date

Todaypage reduced true.png

# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/reduced true
  • digital/analog clock : change the digital clock to analog clock

Todaypage digitalclock false.png

# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/digital_clock false
  • remove clock entirely

Todaypage noclock.png

# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/small_clock true
  • change wallpaper image

Todaypage changewallpaper.png

# gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/poky/interface/wallpaper /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png
  • other options: The above are just a few of the options that can be changed. Here are the rest:
# gconftool-2 -a /desktop/poky/interface 
   toolbar_style = icons
   gtk-im-status-style = callback
   gtk_key_theme = Default
   theme = Moko
   font_name = Sans 5
   gtk-color-palette = (no value set)
   cursor_blink_time = 1200
   cursor_blink = true
   gtk-scrolled-window-placement = GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT
   small_clock = true
   menus_have_icons = false
   toolbar_icon_size = (no value set)
   touchscreen = true
   can_change_accels = false
   digital_clock = false
   file_chooser_backend = (no value set)
   gtk-im-preedit-style = callback
   wallpaper = /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png
   icon_theme = openmoko-standard


  • gconf problem (the hard fix)
(gconftool-2:1366): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
Error setting value: No D-BUS daemon running
root@fic-gta02:/$ ps aux | grep today
root      1320  3.7 11.5  33556 14100 ?        S    23:00   0:09 openmoko-today
root      1369  0.0  0.4   2860   592 pts/0    S+   23:04   0:00 grep today

root@fic-gta02:/$ cat /proc/1320/environ 
root@fic-gta02:/$ export   DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-80gSL9Q6F4,
guid=6efed88183a7f6b9210cf40047ba0dfe

Doing it with one single line :

export $(cat /proc/$(pidof openmoko-today)/environ | grep DBUS)
  • gconf problem (the easy fix): Prefix the command with dbus-launch, see below example:
root@fic-gta02:/$ dbus-launch gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/poky/interface/wallpaper /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png

The appearance of the display locker can be modified, as well, by following the instructions under Display Locker.

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