Re: [TiLP-devel] Some news about TiLP & survey/poll

[John S. <mi...@ya...>]

I believe there are two simple things that could make
the tilp project light-years more useful.

The first is Gnome-VFS integration.  Tilp is a nice
little app, but accessing the calculator just like any
other device (digital camera/usb keydrive/pda/etc) is
a much more robust, useful, and versatile solution. 
This shouldn't be that hard to do, and I've had half a
mind to do it on several occasions.

The second is to flush out the bugs with the
silverlink cable.  Right now, I can use it "pretty
well" with the kernel driver.  It always needs to be
unplugged and replugged if you ever enter the var-link
screen (on 89/92/v200).  So it seems it needs to be
reset or something.  The libusb driver is horribly
flaky.  Nearly all new users will have SilverLinks, so
we /need/ to support these 100%.

Two other (not as important) things tilp needs are
better (updated) developer documentation and enabling
deleting variables.  The dev docs are good where they
are consistent with the api.  However, much of the
documenation is outdated and much new functionality
seems to be totally undocumented.  This is from
personal experience of trying to use libti* over the
last semester.  Deleting variables will really enhance
the usefulness of a gnome-vfs module.


1) I use Gentoo Linux.
2) I have a Voyage 200
3) I have a silverlink
4) I use Gnome
5) Yes.. desktop integration is a good thing (see
abover blurb on gnome-vfs)
6) I am definitely interested in some development. 
Also maybe updating documentation.
7) Other software....  Rather than coming up with
separate editors and such, I believe it would be good
to go the route of better desktop integration
(gnome-vfs).  Allow program/text editing with any text
editor.

John

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