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Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

I'd really need just the combined grand total of in/out, my 'data plan' has 25 Mb/month total transfer, going over that costs extra...

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

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Originally Posted by pelago (Post 341752)

I've just looked at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/..._UI_Guidelines and I don't see anything about them having to be the same width...?

Indeed. I only find this in regards to size:

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Widgets must be as compact in size as possible; even though Maemo 5 offers a generous amount of screen space, users must be able to place several widgets on each screen to minimize the need for excessive screen switching.
N.B. Due to the high pixel density of the physical screen, tappable elements must be at least 70x70 pixels in size for convenient finger use.

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Widgets must be designed to be as compact in their size as possible, avoiding any excessive graphical elements that do not provide any meaningful information or controls. As a rule of thumb, the footprint of a Widget must never exceed half of the Desktop space allocated for Widgets, including a 24px‐padding around the Widget (132,352 pixels total). The largest stock Widgets, Location and RSS, are close to the maximum footprint of Widgets, as seen in Figure 4; another, Tutorial, spans across the entire Desktop, but therefore remains limited in its height.

I do like the look of those mockups (?) however, while I still see a point in clarifying what data connection the monitor is displaying (gprs, not e.g. wifi).

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Oh, would it be possible to have options for what to show, or even different layouts? As this widget would only need to show information, even a very small number in the corner would be enough.

This would do just fine for me, total data transferred (GPRS in+out).
This is 100%
http://qkpic.com/bea0d and
http://qkpic.com/32938 <- that would very nicely follow the rules too. =)

Nothing fancy, just the facts.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

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Originally Posted by pelago (Post 341752)

I've just looked at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/..._UI_Guidelines and I don't see anything about them having to be the same width...?

Sure not every single widget should have same width, but for consistent look of the homescreen it would be nice to keep the width as simmilar as possible, built-in calendar, media player and maps already do it.

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I like the minimal design without the header, but I think the icon there keeps it consistant with the other widgets.

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Originally Posted by wazd (Post 341673)

Quick update:
Since we still have to follow Widget Gudelines - both monitor and IP have to have same width as other widgets. So:
http://s47.radikal.ru/i118/0910/7d/c3f33a1d72bc.png

Great with the icons (also on background looking well), and the small numbers. Although I'd start to calculate in GB if MB is a number with 3 zeros. The left space on the second picture could contain the public IP address.

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

Just a BUMP!

Anything new on the development on this one?

(curious since i think this is a great idea.)

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

Just working on this today, in fact. wazd has sent me his upload/download icons and I am hammering out the layout. I have finished adapting personal-ip-address, but I want to add a bit more functionality in that release before pushing to extras-devel.

Thanks for the interest!

Re: Personal GPRS Monitor for Fremantle

np. i won't be shy to give critical feedback as well when i can test it myself ;)

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Don't know if this was already proposed, but for me a cool feature will be a 'spent money' feature. This is really easy to do, you only need to allow the user to enter a rate and then (rate x traffic) should give the spent money. This is very useful if you aren't using a data plan.