Added kmplayer-0.11.3b-x86_64-1rp, libpng-1.5.8-x86_64-1rp, libpng-1.5.7-x86_64-2rp, json-glib-0.12.0-x86_64-3rp
Please do not uninstall earlier libpng-1.4.x, neither do a upgradepkg since the earlier version is statically linked to the kde4.8.0 build if you are running the same. It is safer to have both packages in parallel.
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Tagged json-glib, kmplayer, libpng, linux, packages, slackware, slackware64
A brief review of the stock rom of motorola defy stock rom and a little comparison with cm7.2 The hardware is a motorola mb525 with the SOC camera module, a sandisk memory card 4GB class 4 rating. ROM version is JEM_3.4.3-36-1.7
The main screen on the stock rom has only three buttons at the bottom, call button on the left, a menu button – iphone mimic in the center, and a contacts button on the right.
The dialer is slick and fast and supports T9 search which is really nice and was really missed in the 1st version of stock ROM.
Some nice stock widgets added are the calendar and date widget
Another widget showing time at 2 locations around the globe is a nice addition, but I would like to ask why they limited it to two?
The connected media player is really nice and has nicely integrated the music player, fm radio, shout-cast radio, sound hound, video player, lyrics download, albumart download & tunewiki.
The ability to save radio stations is missing though which is real bad.
Tunewiki provides the lyrics and that is also a good feature.
There is also a stock alarm and timer app. The addition of the timer app is a revision over the earlier rom. The tasks widget is carried over and is useful as well. And for the media savvy we have the DLNA and media share. The task manager is having the additional auto end feature which is really worthwhile and helps save battery. Another neat feature is the data manager which lets a user meter data and also save some. Cell broadcast can be enabled as well.
Swipe keyboard is built in and the skin is absolutely slick.
There is slight banding which is visible in the messaging app.
What is missed as compared to Cyanogenmod
CM7 is evolving day by day and hence using the same is something which helps a lot and with the huge developer base the updates keep coming frequently. Catch up on the cm7 rom at cyanogenmod.com or grab a nightly firmware from defy-cm.net
Slackware package created for ncdu a nice disk analyzer. Pretty fast and efficient, and does the job when you do not want to run into a gui. The particular usage is when some files should be actually consuming less space but they consume more and we get erratic results with df.
The source code can be found here. And the slackware x64 package can be found here.
Here are a few screenshots.
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Tagged cli, disk usage, linux, ncdu, packages, slackware, slackware64
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Tagged linux, slackware, packages, kmymoney, kde, wicd, slackware64, anyremote
Been using cm7 for quite some time on my motorola defy. Was wondering how miui would work so put it up 2 days back and was happy to see some nice features.
So I compiled a small comparison of the roms -
| CM7.1 | Miui 1.12.9 | |
| Dialer | calls grouped, shows number of calls | calls are not grouped by contact |
| dialer does not search contact for matching numbers as you type | dialer searches contacts for matching numbers as you type | |
| default launcher | adw | go |
| file manager | OI | good one, shows memory usage on startup |
| app killer | not available | available, press home key for 2-3 seconds |
| call recording | not available | available |
| pulldown menu on home / notification widgets | better | worse |
| power button menu | available | not available |
| music player seeking support | available | not available |
| blacklisting | available | available |
| inbuilt firewall | not available | available, but does not seem to be foolproof, some applications got their way around this |
| tablet tweaks | available | not available |
| quiet hours | available | not available |
| mute camera shutter | available | not available |
