Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

After you reboot or 'kill' the telescope the background will be the same of your wallpaper.

If anybody create icons share with us :)

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

Yep, Telescope must be restarted when you change wallpaper. But it's better to run (as root):
/etc/init.d/telescope-svc restart
instead of just kill :) May be i will add wallpaper change detection in future releases, but this is low priority task.

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

Agreed, higher priority is adding config option to set different wallpaper for window thumbnails and launcher. ;)

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

For icons, you can always look to this site.

http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcon...bfdd9872144c28

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

I think it would be cool to have a separate background image for Telescope. As an option maybe; if that would be possible in a future update. I'm really liking it as it is, already. I especially like the simpified button layout in Kroll's post, (#254), earlier in this thread.

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

There is already the option to set custom background for telescope: add "background.filename = /path/to/file" to /etc/telescope.conf and restart Telescope.

I will try to implement category grouping like in Kroll's mockup soon.

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

Thanks for the telescope task switcher, which is looking great and thus makes working with my N810 more fun. Together with Diablo 5 theme the N810 is a great new gem now.

For those, you have not yet tried it out, here are some of my notes, which I hope to be useful for someone:

Navigation
As described by silvermountain

Start Telescope: Home Key
Start Launcher: Press Home Key again
Go from Launcher to Telescope: Press Home key
Exit to Desktop (from Telescope): Tap any area outside of the app windows - or press Escape
Exit to Desktop (from Launcher): Tap any area outside of the app windows - or press Escape


Configuration

Principle configuration

(0) Control panel / Panels (within Personalization section) / Task navigator / Telescope launcher or Applications Organize
(1) Organize your applications in application categories

Manually changing the icons in category bar

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=255

(0) Start telescope by pressing the Home Key
(1) Press and hold on the application category (e.g, Internet) to add or change an icon -> a line on top of the bottom tab bar shows up
(2) Click on preferred icon

I use 14 categories. My max size icon is 64x64 which gets cut-off slightly at the corners; I use this larger icon for a major category.

File to change: /home/user/.telescope.cats


Originally in telescope.cats there are 2 backslashes at the end in front of the file name, one also works fine.

Traditional category names
tana_fi_settings
tana_fi_extras
tana_fi_communication


Icon information:
file web.png
web.png: PNG image data, 53 x 53, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
phone.png: PNG image data, 48 x 48, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
emblem-desktop.png: PNG image data, 64 x 64, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

Icons installation
http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=121
(0) Select and download icons
(1) Untar (tar xzf icons.tar.gz) and select your favourite icons
(2) Move Icon to your image folder or to /usr/share/telescope/category-icons/
(3) Change icon within .telescope.cats (see above)


Other links:

Telescope thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58691
Diablo5 Theme: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52285

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=264
http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=121


http://wiki.maemo.org/Application_Menu
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...tana_fi_extras

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

Wow! Thank you for such compiled manual.
Telescope really lacks documentation. And the icon!
(Kroll, do you remember you draw some icon? :))

I can only add that if you are attracted to hacking things, Telescope also has a number of parameters that can be configured in /etc/telescope.conf.
Most of them affects visual appearance. For example, location of pixmaps, sizes of borders, colors, etc.
But there are also several parameters that can change its behavior.

Here is a link to my post with the list of the parameters (in russian :) ): http://n8xx.com/post52175.html#p52175
This list is little outdated. I will translate it to english and post here, also adding new parameters which were added recently.

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

Mitrandir, you could insert the (awesome) manual scy has written in the thread's first post, so it is not lost among hundreds of posts.

Re: [Announce] Telescope: Graphical task switcher with thumbnails
 

I certainly do. But I do not have time to draw icons... I do not have time to finish next release of Diablo 5 even!