Hi,

it has been a very long time since I gave an update on the paroli project. A lot
has happened since, the most dramatic change, of course, being the shift of OM’s focus away from smartphones and towards Project B, this brought with it staff cuts on the paroli project. Where there were 3 people before, only one is left for now, me :)

However, development on paroli continued and I think it has come a long way since. I wanted to give an update on the functions and features as well as problems that I currently see in paroli.

What is new:

• a settings app which includes:
  a switch allowing to change from fullscreen to windowed mode
  (in settings hit: Display -> Profile and wait a few seconds)
• a basic wifi manager
  you can enable and disable wireless and scan for networks as well as join them (incl encryption)
• most of the fso settings such as Delivery Reports for messages, Call diverting, profile configuration and PIN settings
• gprs settings
• Time settings
• basic Network settings (on this page you will also find which Network you are currently registered with)
• the design should now be displayed correctly regardless of the window size (it is all relative values now, only some images have pixel values)
• visual feedback for most buttons
• when registering fails, paroli will continue to load and continuously retry to register
• message forwarding (hit the number in message details) was fixed
• problem with 2 incoming calls fixed (for the time being paroli only allows one)
• hitting the desktop icon a second time *should* check whether paroli is already running and if so not start a second instance but show the homescreen instead (this should in theory be handled via dbus however we do have troubles with that for the time being)
• when you shut down paroli using illume’s topshelf, a window will be displayed asking you whether you want to keep paroli running in the background, which allows you to keep on accepting calls etc
• and many small fixes all over the place

known problems in paroli:

• not all buttons give visual feedback on click
• some buttons are really hard to hit
• too little documentation
• screen registers input events even if paroli is busy
• calling not stable (seems like a mix of problems in paroli and in the framework)
• too few error messages
• graphics part too slow
• missing certain settings as well as a cleaner settings grouping
• connman sometimes stops answering to dbus calls and paroli is not handling that very well

the next steps:

• fixing, fixing, fixing
• get settings for bluetooth pairing (mainly for audio headsets)
• get gps settings (activate/deactivate)
• pim switch backend to opimd once it is ready
• fix design flaws (size and feedback)
• try to switch graphics backend to use libeflvala to gain speed
• major code-cleaning and optimization

I am sure there are other areas that deserve attention as well. If you want to dive into paroli and improve it, I am happy about any help I can get.

If you find bugs please report them to:
http://www.paroli-project.org/trac

If you have fixes/patches send them to mirko [at] openmoko.org or if it is a huge number of fixes and you wanna dive deeper into paroli let’s talk about git access.

Happy calling,

/mirko

The best way to try paroli is by installing the latest om2009 unstable:
http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/NeoFreerunner/

and soon the next testing image.

You can also download the source at:
http://git.paroli-project.org/?p=paroli.git

or the package from:
http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/unstable/armv4t/

PS:  for screeshots and general feature overview check http://www.paroli-project.org/running-paroli/