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mannakiosk	2010-02-11 , 09:57
Posts: 158 \| Thanked: 67 times \| Joined on Jan 2008	#51

I think the geeky and absurd "Dinosaur comics" at http://www.qwantz.com/index.php is often pretty hilarious.

It has an url format like this http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1651 (previous comic ending in 1650 and so on).

Like xkcd it has an alt-text that is needed for the full experience.

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	niqbal	2010-02-11 , 10:16
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cheers brilliant work mate. its a bit small for my liking, no complaints though great work!

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	mece	2010-02-11 , 10:50
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Originally Posted by niqbal

cheers brilliant work mate. its a bit small for my liking, no complaints though great work!

You can change the size to your liking.
Launch xterm, type (for example):

Code:

echo "650,320" > .comic-widget/size.cfg

remove the widget from desktop and add it again. Voila: 650x320px widget.

798,420 is the biggest you can have.

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lemmyslender	2010-02-12 , 18:30
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Thanks for this widget. It's great, particularly the large selection of comics.

One request. Could you add a button (like the jump forward) that would download the most recent comic for the entire list of subscribed comics? Or all the recent comics from last to most current.

It can get a little frustrating hitting the forward button, wait (during which time I can't select any other widgets) for the newest comic to load, read, chang to the next comic, repeat. It'd be nice to hit a button, download all the newest, give it a minute or two, then be able to quickly read and flip through all the new comics.

Thanks again for a great app.

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	Flandry	2010-02-12 , 18:36
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I apologize for the vague nature of this feedback, but i was having huge problems with nonresponsiveness of the UI, especially the task switcher (clicking on windows wouldn't bring them up for a long time). I finally got so fed up with it i uninstalled a few recently-installed apps (all of them from Extras but this one). Suddenly, the UI is amazingly responsive. It may have been a different app causing the problem, but i'm just putting this out there: has anyone else had trouble like this with comic widget installed?

I'll try installing it again in a while (by itself this time) and see if the same thing happens again. For now i'm enjoying a molasses-free UI.

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Brank	2010-02-12 , 18:45
Posts: 210 \| Thanked: 62 times \| Joined on Jan 2010 @ Helsinki, Finland	#56

it takes about 5 seconds for the picture to open in browser, which is quite long though still nice.

to make it more user friendly, I still wanna suggest the foreca weather widget way. if it would open up in a app, it could also have all the functions as the widget. Meaning prev/next other comic and so on. lot more work though, so I'm not trying to tell you to try make it. would just be shiny :P

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Mr_Hat	2010-02-13 , 02:44
Posts: 23 \| Thanked: 11 times \| Joined on Dec 2009 @ Firenze - Italy	#57

Originally Posted by Flandry

I apologize for the vague nature of this feedback, but i was having huge problems with nonresponsiveness of the UI, especially the task switcher (clicking on windows wouldn't bring them up for a long time). I finally got so fed up with it i uninstalled a few recently-installed apps (all of them from Extras but this one). Suddenly, the UI is amazingly responsive. It may have been a different app causing the problem, but i'm just putting this out there: has anyone else had trouble like this with comic widget installed?

I'll try installing it again in a while (by itself this time) and see if the same thing happens again. For now i'm enjoying a molasses-free UI.

Me too...My problem is to switch between desktop and to use the task manager...since I installed the widget the ui it's less responsive...I was thinking the same thing you said in these days...

...however it's still a great widget...and it's in devel!

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Brank	2010-02-14 , 12:07
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I had these problems as well, but I caused them by myself as I rapidly clicked many times on previous comic. all buttons froze up for like 2 minutes, even though I was able to scroll to different desktops. Finally it loaded the comics from like 9 days ago (must've clicked more times but guess it registered only 9), and then all buttons started to work again.

Might be nice if you couldn't do this rapid clicking, and have to load one to be able to press again.
One thing I'm really missing is a way to jump to first comic for example. Cause I've made some new discoveries in comics that seem good, and I'd like to read them from the start. But no way in hell am I clicking back 3000 times for example

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	mece	2010-02-15 , 09:31
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Originally Posted by Brank

I had these problems as well, but I caused them by myself as I rapidly clicked many times on previous comic. all buttons froze up for like 2 minutes, even though I was able to scroll to different desktops. Finally it loaded the comics from like 9 days ago (must've clicked more times but guess it registered only 9), and then all buttons started to work again.

Might be nice if you couldn't do this rapid clicking, and have to load one to be able to press again.
One thing I'm really missing is a way to jump to first comic for example. Cause I've made some new discoveries in comics that seem good, and I'd like to read them from the start. But no way in hell am I clicking back 3000 times for example

I really like the rapid clicking though. If you want to read backwards for example, you can go ape on the back button, and then do something else while the widget loads the comics. Unfortunately it freezes hildon-home so you'll have to use the menu to launch applications while it's loading.

I'll try to implement some threading to make it load in the background. ~~The widget uses very little cpu~~ no cpu while idle (10-15% cpu when loading comics), so I'm not exactly sure why the ui becomes less responsive. I guess it could simply have to do with memory and rendering. The core of it is put together rather hastily since I originally just made it for myself. Making it more efficient is top priority.