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OK, PDA RE-reloaded - Click!
For a little while, I have decided to reload my PDA once again only with GPE. What a mistake!GPE uses that god-awful GNOME interface. You can't hold down your stylus and hope that a menu appears.
However -- and there's always a however in life (850 KOA's website is much better now. I listen to Reggie in St. Louis on the Big 550 KTRS)--, GPE does have its perks.
If you like to play games, GPE is your kind of environment. Tetris and Lights Out out are good (Lights Out is the shiz-nit!), but alot of the other games suck very badly.
GPE also had much better handling of time syncronization, something GNOME, KDE, and OPIE have trouble with. For example, I'm typing this at 8:20AM, but I'm using KDE right now and the clock reads 2:50AM. Keep in mind I am in St. Louis not Tokyo. GPE also has better lighting than OPIE. Fortuantely, the OPIE guys are working on a patch to increase their lighting.
Battery support in GPE is excellent. It recognized the battery jacket, and after 24 hours undocked, there still is power because it shut itself off after 3 minutes. Turning it back on, well...I press the power button but I'm looking at the colored blocks on the screen, I'm not impressed. Thus, I have to pop the PDA out of the Jacket, an take the main battery out, put it back in, put the jacket back on, eject the CF and SD cards (SD still not supported yet. Come on! GIVE US SOME DAMN SUPPORT HERE!), press power (vibe! That's normal.) Wait for Tux, wait for the GPE logo (which is like 10 minute later. It took a lot shorter with OPIE), wait for X to load (X is another good thing about GPE. OPIE doesn't have X embedded, but they should.), then Log in.
OK, there's the other problem. Logging in. OPIE did not have logging in, and if the next release of OPIE did come with Logging in (which I recomend, since PocketPC use to have it), it would let me log in with only ONE PROFILE! I attempted to delete the second profile, but when I logged out as root, it wanted me to create a second profile. I don't want to make a second profile, damnit! I want to be root! So I created a second profile against my will. (DAMN YOU GPE!).
Sometimes the well built apps in GPE crash unexpectedly, and sometimes the entire PDA shuts off. (Oh, crap!) There is also NO SOUND! And no support for the HP fold away keyboard compatiple with my h5450. (My PDA's not fat, it's just loaded with love. (OK, ladies, enough with the "Aww"s))
2 out of 5
Back to OPIE for now.
Labels: brick, fubar, handhelds, mod, shovelware
posted by Bushido Hacks 6/24/2004 07:58:00 AM
