caveats / complaints / things-that-suck / needles-in-my-eye

these are things that im worried arent solvable, even with open mode. they all could be.

1) SOLVED big scary warning
the openmode disclaimer is ****ing awful, but its solvable!
-flash the firmware {leave the closed kernel}
-turn on dev-mode
-in terminal, 'devel-su'
-'disclaimer-cal remove View-openmode'
-without rebooting, flash the openmode kernel
-rm -rf /home/user/.aegis
-reboot again
note that this murders your rootfs {installed apps and all settings}, but does not require you to kill MyDocs or home, so your DCIM is safe

2) BORKED cannot downgrade firmware
i REALLY REALLY want to solve this problem. i think its worth exploring how to, e.g.: flash the very first version so that any arbitrary version can be installed. from what i can tell, the problem is 100% the flasher app. maybe theres another flasher app already? maybe some reverse engineering could be gotten underway to do so? this is not impossible to do, and theres nothing malicious about wanting to do it {e.g. to test previous versions}.
the sole purpose for stopping downgrades is to patch-up aegis holes, and the sole purpose for aegis to exist is so that businesses dont shy away from 'open platforms'. large corporations dont know how to do business in an environment where they cant abuse the endusers.

3) WORKAROUND ~/.profile is read by the thing that starts up the xserver-ish monstrosity, and you can BRICK YOUR PHONE AND LOSE YOUR EMMC {photos, convos, contacts, etc} if you do something stupid to it.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81813
workaround: change the /usr/share/applications/meego-terminal.desktop to do "-e bash" instead of calling .bashrc in .profile

4) WORKAROUND /root/.bashrc has lines that set PS1 overwritten in a stupid way
silly bug, no lasting damage, easy workaround, what the hell is doing it and why?
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81794
workaround: set pstemp instead, then do PS1=$pstemp

5) SOLVED chroot!
im surprised this isnt up and working. at least one person has it on an n950.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82114

6) SOLVED pidgin
libpurple and gtk+ are working, with vkbd support!
so where's ma pidgin. {im occasionally working on this one, but its a pain.}
pidgin works just fine for me, with a bluetooth keyboard.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82057

7) SOLVED thunderbird, claws-mail, SOMETHING
my only requirement for email be that the whole msg {headers, body, and attachments} of all messages be fetched both on a schedule and by demand, and permanently stored offline.
i dont need my reader integrated with my fetcher.
i dont need my writer integrated with my reader.
fetch/read/write are very separate tasks for me that i only occasionally do at the same time.
-built-in email machine is actually quite nice, though you cant copy/paste in the gui, and searching sux {imo}. you can always just find/grep/xclipboard in ~/.qmf.
-chroot thunderbird works ok

8) SOLVED lock screen customization
you can add an icon by setting a gconf string. im led to believe you can also tweak style.
i want a count of my missed calls, texts, and emails-by-account, and maybe a smaller clock to save battery. i would also like battery percentage and stats
really cool, but imperfect, soln is to use operator logo in the wonderful way done here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81798
another cool application of same idea:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81443

9) SOLVED making the power button {and vol buttons?} run arbitrary commands for short/long/double
i got the arbitrary commands thing working using a pyqt app without a display.
yay, flashlight toggling works
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82538

10) SOLVED full vnc control
i want to be able to simulate touch-screen drags, or at least control the main interface.
EDIT: netview doesnt have a CLI, so you need to be at the phone to start it. it also doesnt take normal x11vnc options, like -nopw for secure LANs[/COLOR]
EDIT: ok, cool! i got this working without the netview gui, using the bundled x11vnc in netview {doesnt work with one from dev repo}.
see: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81883