Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

You can use cmd-navigator or personal menu.

as for simple launcher, create a .desktop into your applicationn menu and link simple launcher to it.

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

I must have missed the docs , but I've spent 10 minutes trying to find how and where I can add a .desktop file, but I haven't found the slightest indication. searching .desktop op Google returns lots of results about desktop.....

Any hint?

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

Not sure if this is about a ".desktop file" but you install home-screen applets just like any other app. Then you go to the Home menu on the home screen and select "Select applets ... "

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

The spec for what constitutes a .desktop file can be found on the freedesktop.org site, but that's overkill if you just want to make an icon for your application show up in the application menu.

(Note: This assumes you have some knowledge of basic linux commands. My apologies if this is obvious.)
In an xterm, navigate to "/usr/share/applications/hildon/". There you will find a bunch of .desktop files, depending on what applications you have installed already. Pick one, copy it to a new file like "yourapp.desktop", edit this file in your favorite text editor, and change the "Name=" and "Exec=" lines to suit your application. Search this forum for "[Desktop Entry]" to find some examples, like this one I made to launch xmms.

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

does anyone know if there is a home screen whiteboard applet. i think it would be nice to write notes to myself on the home screen without opening an app. one button to save to a user determined place and erase would be really nice.

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

this would be great as i am in need of similar. except it should support both writing and typing (using n810 keyboard) as i do not always want to pullout the stylus all the time.

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

Couldn't you just always leave Notes open, and minimize it if you don't want to look at it?

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

yea, i could leave notes open, but i turn it off to change the battery pretty often. also i look at the home screen to use my other applets all the time, and it would be nice to have my note right there as a reminder.

Re: Any good apps for the Home screen?
 

@debudebu

You mean something like this: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/yellownotes/ ?

Unfortunatly it will not run on OS2008 :(. What I do is I use GPE Summary with the to do list. Bit long editing them but you get the info on the desktop :)