Hello folks,

I just made available the very first version of DrLaunch. A launcher widget with portrait mode support.

It is a very early release and it has a lot of bugs (I have found some myself already) which I'm going to fix in the next versions. However, the widget seems quite usable and you may already need something like this, so here it is.

Assuming that you know what you're doing, you can get it if from extras-devel or from here. The widget is listed as "DrLaunch" for now.

The widget is optified and should not cause batter drain (famous last words?).

Known bugs:

• If you resize the grid you need to restart hildon-home or remove and re-add the widget (icons will remain).
• If you open the settings a couple of times, weird things will happen. If you experience problems restart hildon-home or remove and re-add the widget.
• After you add icons, the grid will not always refresh. You need to press on each icon for a while to be refreshed.

Hildon-home can be restarted by running "killall hildon-home" in command-prompt as user. DON'T run this too often (e.g not more than once per second).

The widget does not start programs at first touch. Instead you need to press an icon until it glows (for 250 milliseconds). This is done on-purpose to avoid launching programs by mistake. I can make this configurable but I'd like to listen to your comments on this first.

My favorite apps are the phone and the browser because they can start in portrait mode. Some third party apps (like ATI85 calculator and Brain Party) are also good candidates.

Please report other bugs in this thread. Also, I'd greatly appreciate a review on the widget part of the code. It is written in python.

Oh.. and here are two screenshots for proof of concept