Notices

Just installed the latest version and some great updates - but there are also two things that i think goes completely against what I perceived as the 'philosophy' of flipclock: Having buttons named 'Setup' and 'Alarms' on the main clock display.

The 'Setup' button is rather distracting where it is at at the upper left corner and way to prominent.

When I wrote 'philosophy' of flipclock I meant that it seemed like much was done to keep a very clean appearance and a very subtle UI. These buttons, to me, ruin much of the clock display's simple and clean look.

Indeed, indeed. I concur. I would further suggest that if the snooze button is tapped, the display remains in the "night" display, and returns to fully dimmed.

Please read post #142, Jolouis is already making that change.

Okay lots to deal with but let me address a few things quickly first...

Sampieter, I've tried both VBR and CBR mp3s on flip here and all seem to be working just fine. Perhaps it does have something to do with the ID3 version but I have no idea why that would be the case. Can anyone else try some VBR mp3s and see if they can find one/ones that don't work please! If you can find one that doesn't work that's fairly short and.. you know... redistributable without violating laws... let me know so that I can grab a copy of it and do some debugging/testing here with it, as I have not yet been able to find one myself that doesn't work...

In regards to other points:
Dimming issues.

The problem here is that the advanced backlight app is cheating. Flip now implements the same brightness features and control of advanced backlight internally, so you don't need to have it installed in order to set lower brightness levels. However, if you do have it installed, Advanced backlight uses it's own gconf settings to override the built in ones... Flip currently reads the built in settings, so that's why when you change your setup with advanced backlight and then go into Flip it seems to act strangely. I will try to update Flip to accomodate advanced backlight, but the point remains that you don't NEED advanced backlight installed in order to get uber low brightness... that's why I rebuilt the Insomniac mode a while ago.

That is the correct command that is installed into /usr/sbin... if it's not there, then you have a problem with the installation. I have confirmed that this is the correct command on two fresh installs on different tablets, so the packaging is putting it there properly, not sure why you're having problems with it but check that path to make sure it exists...

Interesting idea, hadn't even crossed my mind... I'll try moving it and see what it looks like. I've also fixed the "pixel off" problems with the alarm time button when I implemented the updated settings and alarm controls as described previously.

lol a while yet don't worry! I still have to finish the tweaks, fix up the default night theme, try and optimize things a bit more, fix some bugs... and THEN build the theme manager/selector as well as the help/about screens... so there's a ways to go yet!

Jim, thanks for confirming that... I upped the values yesterday when I implemented the horizontal swipes for theme changing as I found it was WAAAY to sensitive on the vertical; it should be much better in the next beta.

I'm in agreement with Den on this one... that being said, if you prefer single tap/double tap for snoozing/alarm off... you can tweak the theme or make your own theme that implements that very easily ;-) Once we get to Release 1.0 bring this question up again and I'll point out how to do it (and how to make a theme so you can share it with others!).

I had the same thought last night! This may or may not make Release 1.0 but my idea would be to have two settings on the clock controls page... "auto day time" and "auto night time", that would determine when the clock automatically changes themes. Perhaps even a tie in/option for doing it based on your location/etc though that's a bit of overkill I think...

Thanks!

"I had the same thought last night! This may or may not make Release 1.0 but my idea would be to have two settings on the clock controls page... "auto day time" and "auto night time", that would determine when the clock automatically changes themes. Perhaps even a tie in/option for doing it based on your location/etc though that's a bit of overkill I think..."

And a setting for which theme is your day theme and which is your night theme.

Will it be possible with themes to change the AM/PM alarm settings? I can't think of a use case where I would want PM alarms, or at least verrrry rarely!

Thanks again for you prompt and flexible design changes.

Jim

why not use the light sensor: if it's dark in
the environment go to night mode and dim
display; otherwise not

Of course, this would only work on N810s , not N800s.

but but but N800's have the fm radio that the N810 lacks!

Oh, I forgot about the radio! I think I will listen to it now!

absolutely! If we are trying to get a few more minutes of sleep, we certainly want the display dimmed. Once I hit the “Alarm Off” button, I want the display to be bright enough to light my way to the bathroom.