Wrap around menus
 

Thanks to lardman for bringing https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987 to my attention (well, I say "my" but more of a general thing on #maemo :)) and fanoush for posting in the bug what needs to be changed.

Simply, as root, :
Now you can press the up button when at the top of a menu to get to the bottom.

The more permanent method:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=12

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just wish there was a way to do that on a global way ;)

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You mean this?

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well, i guess thats a option...

but more like, set it in one place and thats it...

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Why oh why isn't this the default. There are so many poorly chosen defaults like this in Maemo that I wonder if Nokia will ever get it right.

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987#c5

Our wise UI design overlords keep us safe :-)

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Some people count on ending on the bottommost menu item when they mash the down button. It's personal preference.

Given time, and continued work, the community edition should become a viable alternative to what Nokia ships. And while I hope the control panel in the community edition doesn't become Land of One Thousand Checkboxes to tweak everything, options for some simple departures from Nokia's Maemo UI spec like this might make sense.

I'd certainly like the option.

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i just hope the new N900 (whenever, and in whatever form, it ships) do not result in a brain drain from said community edition...

still, i guess the N8x0 is more widespread and established then the 770 was...

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My wish isn't more options, but sensible defaults based on usability principles. The expert/niche usecase options can be put into config files to keep the GUI clean IMHO.

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I expect Nokia's UI spec folks have some user study data showing the current, non-wrapping menus are a sensible choice.

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Successfully hacked gtk to always have wrap around regardless of the theme:

Patch to source:
http://pastebin.com/f23f2c1e6

Deb:
http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/libgtk2...so36_armel.deb

After installing that deb, wrap around will always be enabled. That deb is for diablo only. And this is a hack of an very important component so be careful. Tested on my N800 with diablo fine (rebooted twice just to check)

If you don't want to install that deb, just using the sed line in the first post will be fine for the themes you wish to enable this on.