[Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
Telescope is task switching tool for OS2008
(previous thread) (original thread in russian forum n8xx.com) What is Telescope? Simply explained: you press the 'home key' (or F5, the upper hard-ware key on the left side of your tablet) — and all applications you are running shows as thumbnails on a screen and you can there easily select what app to jump to. Even more: thumbnails are live, so you can easily monitor activity in several application at once. Telescope is designed to be very fast and lightweight: v1.0 deb package is only 35kb! How-it-works Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/DenielOl.../2/6FhOf4evqtU (by Kroll) Acknowledges: Thanks to Kroll for original idea, graphics design and his continuous support! Thanks to silvermountain for hosting previous thread. Thanks to all testers from N8XX.com and talk.maemo.org for precious comments and bugreports! How to get: 1-click Install: http://skriblovsky.net/maemo/install.png Stable versions are is in Extras repository. If you're subscribed to Extras-devel, you will receive more often and somewhat buggy development releases. Telescope in Maemo Downloads: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/telescope/ Please post your comments and stars here! Our Garage page: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/telescope/ Please report your bugs and feature requests here! |
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In the Diablo5 thread Kroll pointed me to Telescope as the culprit for my mce.ini file changing w/o my input.
I use MCEdit to enable softpoweroff via the power button, and I kept having to re-enable it, seemingly randomly. (hindsight: whenever Telescope updated) Is there any way to keep my settings in the mce.ini when telescope updates? Thanks PS Thank You for your continued efforts improving the N8x0s!:) |
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When telescope is installing it copies your mce.ini into /etc/mce/mce.ini.telescope.bak and then modifies the mce.ini. When it is uninstalling, it copies backup copy back to /etc/mce/mce.ini.
Updating the packet effectively results in its uninstalling and then installing again and after it all your changes to mce.ini is lost :( So, you can do one of:
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heh, the X equivalent of writing assembly.
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BTW, i found plain X programming much less lowlevel and more fun then i thought before :)
angun33 even wrote me that he found X programming even easier that Gtk ;) |
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well i stand corrected then. Or maybe its simple while interfacing with xlib, but maintain xlib itself is a pain.
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For a normal application though, I do prefer Qt than gtk/X programming :p |
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Ok, sorry if i have distorted your words :(
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It's a great little app. I really like it.
I have sen one thing that may be an issue. If I am watching a video through "Media Player," the video window is now in front of everything, even if a pop-up opens or I bring up another window. By "video window," I mean the actual video itself, the the containing window that includes the control buttons. I first noticed this issue after installing Telescope, but I haven't uninstalled Telescope to see if it goes away. (I like the app enough I am willing to live with the problem.) - John |
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