B-1 comments.

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:37 -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> This is all in the first few hours of having the machine, and I know
> that some of this is known.
> 
> Some of this is also partly my area, and some of this is of limited
> scope, however, that all said....
> 
> 
> The wireless:
>     We need an easy way to lock the wireless function of the laptop
>     _off_, this is largely due to FAA restrictions on operating wireless
>     devices in the air.  This means that just being able to turn it off
>     once the machine is booted is not really enough, and having to
>     remember to turn it off before you leave for the airport is, ah,
>     fairly sucky.
> 
>     In the short term, a software fix is the best we can do.
> 
>     In the long term, I think a physical switch would be a lot better.
>     How to work this into the ID of the laptop is an interesting
>     question, but not one that I'm qualified to make many suggestions
>     on.
> 
> Power indicators:
>     We need a way, from ebook mode too, to very easily check to see not
>     only that we have some power left, but to get an idea of _how_ much
>     power beyond 'we must shut down now'.  Ideally, an extra button or
>     two on the unit that, in sugar, brings up a partial frame with a
>     power percentage, probably in a nice little bar, would be very nice.
> 
> 'Game' buttons:
>     The current implementation sucks, we know it sucks, but after trying
>     to read an ebook in ebook mode, I can identify _how_ they suck a lot
>     better.

Trying to play Doom on the XO-1, we found another problem; both game
button modules emit the _same_ key codes.  That sucks.  We need to get
each of the 8 game buttons to emit _8_ different key codes somehow.
Apps can map them however they want (like make both sets of 4 the same)
but all 8 need to be different underneath.

Dan

>     Specificly, the buttons are all too hard to press.  And they don't
>     do enough things in ebook reader mode, but a lot of it is simply
>     that they are too hard to press.
> 
>     Recessed is nice, but someone better at button design then me should
>     take a look to see how we can make it easier to press the bloody
>     things.
> 
>     In ebook mode, we need a way to tell it that we wish to enter/exit
>     'navigating links' mode, and a way to say 'follow this link', along
>     with 'follow this link', keys for forward and back would be nice.
> 
>     Also page up/down, in addition to small up/down, would be handy, as
>     would repeat on the small up/down.
> 
>     That's some software changes, but quite possibly an extra few
>     buttons as well.
> 
> Brightness:
>     This is a lot less critical, but hey.  It would be nice if we could
>     fiddle the brightness in ebook mode, but that's fairly minor.
>     (And would mean either more buttons, or a 'toggle through a list of
>     the meaning of these buttons' button, which, might not be a bad
>     idea for ebook mode either, and the swapping could be entirely
>     software.)
> 
> I'll probably have more later, but.
> 
> Zephaniah E. Hull.
> 
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