Back to the basics: improving user experience

Fri Oct 17 08:57:01 CEST 2008

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> Leonti Bielski wrote:
>> But what about PIM stack?
>> There is a project from GSOC, but it's either dead or just being
>> developed really slow. What if some time OM is spending on ASU get to
>> develop PIM stack for FSO? Or even make a 0.9 release of FSO even
>> earlier as planned?
>> This is what I'd like to write. But there's a think I'd like to remark
> here too (I've already said on the devel list), imho we should move to a
> PIM stack that is compatible with the Qtopia one not to break
> compatibility and support for multi-boot also from an high level
> application point of view.
> That PIM stack is quite good and accessible with easy instruments
> (practically all is done with a sqlite3 database, and the same can be
> easily doable with new python stack too).
>> Imho this should be a key point. It's quite obvious that a good PIM
> stack is vital for a portable device.
>
+1 to use the Qtopia sqlite3 database for the PIM (it may be a 
recommendation of the community) and develop one (or many) python stack 
outside of the "low-level" stack ( suspend/resume, GSM, GPRS, SMS, GPS, 
sounds, screen, accelerometers)