Re: New Media player home widget
 

It works on Nokia´s testing devices and on mine and probably on many many users. If user chooses to install 3rd party apps that make widget not behave as they should then it´s user´s choice. Do you understand that you are able to fck whole system just by doing ONE edit in ONE config file or just installing single package from arbitrary webpage. No one, not single one is holding your hand and saying that "you should not do this and that thing because we know better".

I rarely see proper bug reports. More like: "It´s not working please fix"..."Fix what?". And it´s always wonderful to see that when single user has problem, it´s THE most important problem in the world and of course all the other users are having this same problem also.

What are you talking about fully reporting? Off course it´s users problem if it starts to happen on his device when he has made some changes to system or installed applications. Users job is to give instructions as much as possible to help themselves because we are not talking about some car or washing machine here.

On the other hand I think that Nokia could have done better job on sanboxing widgets. On contrary this probably would have meant that they should be more closed down :| and not so widely usable as they currently are. Give devels free hands on fooling around and user come back to you because of bad quality of apps developed...nice :|

Re: New Media player home widget
 

well i think devs like nicolai are the blood of my N900 ... without all of the extra apps my N900 would be bog standard and pretty unconfigurable and unusable so thanks to nicolai and all other devs who take their own time to create apps for us all to use!!!

Nokia should give a couple of devs like nicolai and mohammadag a paid job upgrading maemo and creating apps, they would probably do a better job of it than Nokia does (they do at the moment anyway)

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I´m not denying here that there is amazing individuals and devels around here, like Nicolai, but I´m just trying to show that there is some responsibility on user side also. It´s not Nokia's problem to take care of badly coded applications that leak memory and make your system stall or behave oddly.

Currently it looks like it might have been better to Nokia to NOT DO ANY WIDGETS AT ALL. That would probably help some user to understand that the problem is not on Nokia's side totally.

Re: New Media player home widget
 

installing new media player widget latest version. original one from nokia vanished. any body know how to get media player from apt-get.

Re: New Media player home widget
 

ditto...these external playlists are visible in the media player but not available in the widget's list

Re: New Media player home widget
 

Very useful widget. It works better than the Nokia one, especially in connection with headphone daemon.
But, recently I have noticed a noticeably increased rate of battery drain. One of the suspects in this is this widget. I am wondering if anybody else has felt this or whether some other app is causing this...

Re: New Media player home widget
 

Hi ejasmudar;

it is difficult for me, to see an impact on battery life, while
developing I often have to restart the device which takes battery
power too.
Please report back if you found out something.

BTW, I uploaded a new version 0.3 with a better
dialog for playlist selection which supports the
"imported" playlists now.

nicolai

Re: New Media player home widget
 

i have just checked for a few hours and i feel that after removing the widget, there is a marked improvement in battery life. Maybe it has something to do with media being paused instead of stopped???

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just a little bug to report,
MPW is showing the last video i watched and tries to play it but closes, rather than showing the music only

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I installed Titan power46 and something else then Icould not take any photo at all. I blamed myself and the power kernel. I reflash my N900 completely and tried again. I can take photos now, but...
With a clean n900 on PR1.2, I could take still images while listening to music. With a just-completely-reflashed N900 on PR1.3, music is paused when you open your lense cover and will continue playing ONLY if you close the cover or close the camera application.
Many bug reports related to music daemon were made before PR1.3. You can see for yourself in this case if Nokia official developers have done their job properly to fix the bugs. N900 is said to be a multitasking monster, but to lessen some bugs, Nokia devs stop music daemon from multitasking with camera app!?

Should I blame myself again for not reflashing PR1.2 instead?Which widget do you suggest should take the blaim:confused:

You sound like those common smart Nokia who prefer smart excuses to smart solutions.