[icon-discuss] Re: 0.9.3 released

  • From: Kevin Jones <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:20:32 -0600

No!I really dislike that the feature is gone, it's like dumbing down the machine. Make it a user setting then. There should be an advanced settings area where the geeky things could be put. Users who don't care could completely ignore them but for some of us the info would still be available. 



David Poehlman wrote:
Gee, I wasn't so much concened with the measurement but that one was there. Now, we don't know if anything was actually done unless we check the date and time. 

On Mar 3, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Pratik Patel wrote:

Unfortunately, I am mathematically challenged (just kidding).  But I'd
rather not spend several precious seconds to convert several million seconds to a unit of time I actually recognize. I, for one, am glad this feature is 
removed.

Pratik


-----Original Message-----
From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Jones
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:16 PM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: 0.9.3 released

I have to agree, I really liked it telling me how far the time was
adjusted. I can't see any good reason t oremove it.


John McCann wrote:

I received my Icon just this past monday, and upgraded to 0.9.3 today

(just

hours ago); my point in mentioning this is to say that I had not had
extensive experience with version 0.9.2, but clearly 0.9.3 is a very

welcome

improvement. I am particularly happy about the fact that this latest

version

fixes the bug with the recorder where I had to go into file explorer to

play
back my recordings. I'm also very happy about another glitch with the word 


processor which has now been fixed. With version 0.9.2, I wrote the

folowing

text (note the punctuation):

Hello John: How are you doing? I am doing fine.

Now, with the previous version, when scrolling backwards to the beginning

of

that text, whether by words or characters, the icon simply would not
recognize anything prior to the colon; either it wasn't being recognized,

or

somehow that backwards review trashed everything before the colon. I was
going to comment about this, but no need now.

And with particular references to the changes, Michael wrote:

[JMJ]: "We now speak the software version after system startup."
Hmmm, that's not happening with my unit; no big deal; that information can 


always be accessed via the menu system, but my icon does not announce the
version number upon boot-up.

[JMJ]: "We added a sleep timer to the general settings item."

Sweet!!!

And,
[JMJ]: "We now don't announce the number of seconds by which the clock was 


adjusted when synchronizing with the internet."

Gee, why remove that announcement? I rather liked receiving that
information. Okay, strictly speaking, there's no real significance to that 


information, except to telegraph the fact that the icon's clock wouldn't
even remotely pass muster as a time standard, <smile>! That having been
said, though, I didn't by the Icon for use as a time reference, and its

easy

enough to pull the time off the internet when you need or want the unit's
time setting to be extremely accurate.

Again, this is a very nice, and even after only having the unit for two
days, a very welcome upgrade.

Keep up the fine work!

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Michael Jones" <mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <icon-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] 0.9.3 released



Hello everyone,

The news you have all been waiting for.  Release 0.9.3 is now available.
Below are the changes in this release and the known issues.

I think you are going to like this release.




General
Speech settings weren't being backed up.  They wil be now.
We now speak the software version after system startup.
We added a sleep timer to the general settings item.
We turned off abbreviation processing in the speech engine.  No more
decibels directory or south dakota cards.
The manual is now in Daisy format.  This means that when you press help

to

open the manual, you can now press pound to navigate through the manual.
there are still some places where pressing help doesn't take you to the
right place in the manual.  Please report these so we can fix them.
Cutting and pasting from books and read only documents in the word
processor
didn't always work.  this should be fixed.
There was a bug that caused searching through documents and books, as

well

as opening the navigation view by pressing pound to be very slow.  this
should be fixed now.
We now don't announce the number of seconds by which the clock was
adjusted
when synchronizing with the internet.
We now don't allow the unit to enter disk drive mode if another
application
is using the hard drive.
We now don't allow the unit to enter disk drive mode if the hard disk or
flash disk is too full.

Added Grade II support in text fields.
End at end of paragraph now moves beyond the last character, instead of

to

the last character.
improved go to end; moving back by line to the previous paragraph now
leaves
you at the beginning of the line segment instead of the end.
got the alarm manager to start more reliably.
Manual updates

Word Processor:

We've added Grade II support.  this means you can enter and review
documents
in Grade II using thumb Braille.
We now remember the last directory you were using when opening or saving
documents.
Braille text is spoken with a different voice.
* Saving a file in the word processor as a .brf file causes text to be
translated into Braille.


Media Player

Fixed the random stopping issues.
Properly clean up media cache when starting and stopping the player.

News Stand
The wording was changed to make things more clear. Now, the menu item to 
add a periodical to the list is called "add a periodical" instead of
subscribe.  After selecting an issue from the list, the periodical
settings
are presented, allowing you to select how many days to keep backissues,
and
whether you want to subscribe to this periodical.
It is now possible to delete individual issues, and remove periodicals
from
the list.
There are now menu items to check all periodicals or simply check for new 
issues for the current periodical.
The unsubscribe and resubscribe menu items were removed, and now there is 
simply a periodical settings form which allows you to subscribe and
unsubscribe from a periodical, as well as modify how long you wish to

keep

backissues.
Automatic deletion of old issues is now working.

RSS Reader

We've added top and Bottom sounds on Feed List
Spelling & Repeat work in Feed List
Update Folder Feeds added
Better handling of RSS feeds whose items have no dates.
Deleting podcasts is now possible by pressing star when pointing to a
podcast.
Added complete sound when RSS downloads complete.
RSS downloads that time-out will gracefully stop.
Import and Export OPML support
Updated default feeds.
Fix delete folder and feed bug
Add the ability to move feeds or folders.

File Explorer

Create new folder refreshes the current list.
Rename file allows editing of old name.

Planner

Fixed planner attachment bugs.

Console

Fixed various keyboard handling issues.
To exit, choose exit from the menu.

Email

Email has the ability to allow the user to enter a different name for an
attachment when saving. Attachment save form remembers last directory.
Attempting to remove an email account didn't work.  This is now fixed.


Network Manager

bug fix where scrolling over profiles very fast would not present the
correct connection information.
Correctly display connection status for wireless profiles.

Browser

if the only way to extract text information from a link is by the file
name
of an image then do so.
Properly read buttons with images.
Browser find feature added
Added goto top of page in the browser (pres 2).
Added browser tabs support. This means that we now properly handle sites that open other sites in new windows, and it also means that you can open 
and switch between multiple pages.
The browser now begins reading pages automatically.
Don't start continuous read after a find.
don't stop reading when the volume keys are pressed.
Added new voices for text, links, graphics, etc.
These settings can be modified to suit each user.
basic google web search macro
Mp3 streams can now be played directly from the browser.

Recorder

The recording destination from the recording settings form was

eliminated.

To select where a recording is placed, simply arrow to the appropriate
recording list and press OK to start recording.
Recording to mini SD is now possible.
Audio skipping when recording to the hard drive should now be eliminated. 

Known issues

1. Turning off disk drive mode while wireless is on seems to hang the

Icon

requiring a reset.  Any testing to verify this would be very helpful.
Disk
drive mode seems to turn off OK when wireless is off.

2. Automatic deletion of periodicals seems to fail on the first

periodical

in the list.  Again, testing to confirm this would be helpful.

3. The news stand will exit if you try to read a different periodical

from

where you started.

4. There are skips in recordings made to the mini SD card.

5. We still have issues with some ID3 tags.

6. Brf files are not reading properly.


Take care,





_______________________________________________

Michael Jones
LevelStar
1500 Cherry St. Suite D
Louisville, CO  80027
Phone: 303-926-4334 x 707
Fax: 303-926-1787
mjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx





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