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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Announcing the Rockbox UtilityRe: Announcing the Rockbox Utility
From: Glenn at home <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:13:35 -0600 Great work Christi, As someone noted before, the install and uninstall buttons need to be tagged with text. Also, when choosing a drive to install, there is not a good way to tell which drive unless we enter the browse area, so if you could have an edit field here, that would be great. And one other thing, When it finishes, it would be nice to go to a window which includes an exit button. Maybe on the install, uninstall window, you could just include an exit button. Very nice work indeed. I look forward to being able to update the voice features too. I suppose that this should be a check-option when going in, so those who don't want to go through that don't have to. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christi Alice Scarborough" <christi_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk> To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox-dev_at_cool.haxx.se>; <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 1:18 AM Subject: Announcing the Rockbox Utility I've been beavering away for the past few weeks, and I'm happy to say that I'm finally in a state where I'm ready to show the fruits of my efforts to others. The Rockbox Utility is a new installer for Rockbox. Don't we already have one of those, I hear you cry? Yes, but Rockbox Utility is much better. Here's why: - Only download the installer once. It then grabs Rockbox from the website. - No need to download lots of files you don't need for other platforms - Support for installing daily builds and bleeding edge builds in addition to released versions of Rockbox. - Uninstall info is stored on your audio device. You can uninstall from a completely different computer to the one you installed on. - A full uninstall for when you're sending your device back under warranty. - Since it works from the zip files made by the build system, changes to Rockbox are much less likely to break it. - Support for Rockbox platforms like iRiver, for which no release version of Rockbox is available. Also, it lays the groundwork for many cool things in the future: - Rockbox Utility is written in wxWidgets, a portable GUI library. This means that a Linux version and hopefully also a Mac version will be on the way soon. - The installer will be able to support multiple languages. - Other functions like patching and downloading firmware, downloading voice files and database generation can be incorporated into the featureset. - Automatic update features. Rockbox Utility will eventually be able to support new platforms as and when they become available by downloading an updated configuration file. Naturally you are all dying to give it a try, but a few words of warning first. This is ALPHA software. This means I've tried it, and I'm happy it works, but do expect a few rough edges, and the possibility of data loss. Please give me feedback on any problems you experience - this will help to make the program more reliable. You can download Rockbox Utility for Windows from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~christi/misc/rbutil-0.1a-setup.exe Hope you like it, Christi Received on 2005-12-20 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |