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Changed the icon colors, cleaned up the eMail Icon.

Landscape UI Concepts:
(1) Clock - It's big, and I made use of the two-line space we had. Instead of spreading it around left to right, I stacked the am/pm and date.
(2) Music Player - Album art with overlaid "time left" (shamelessly stolen idea from a Docky plugin ;) ) which saves SO MUCH SPACE, keeps it readable, and it looks nice.
(3) Notifications - Tap them to unlock the device and launch {Conversations,Modest,CallLog}. If you only have a new message, only the message icon will show up.
(4) Unlock Button - This should be tap-and-hold, because a single tap would unlock the device easily, and a double tap may not register too well on a resistive screen.
http://goput.it/faw.png

Portrait UI Concepts:
(1) Clock - Because it saves so much space, I didn't need to redo the clock. It's much better than the iPhone-style clock design you can find way back.
(2) Media Player - 3 buttons with large hit areas, easy to use with one hand, displays all the info you need.
(3) Notifications - same as above.
(4) Unlock - same as above
http://goput.it/yt7.png

Why are so many people confusing the double-tap the padlock to unlock gesture (suggested for this one) with the double-tap on locked device to unlock (N9)? If you want the latter, there is a thread for that.

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why were the names removed? theyre useful :(

these are amazing, either way

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how did you do that ... ??

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Used GIMP or another image manipulation program ;)

Guys, those screenshots AREN'T from actual application. Many people that don't read whole thread think that this is how it's supposed to look, and soon we'll get many "bug reports" or "where can i find customization to make it look like on Hurrian screenshots".

@MAG
Thank You for info. So, no CPU used - what about RAM? It's also same as with stock lock screen? And I'm not only talking about current version, but i wonder how features requested here (for example media player things, or those from Hurrian screenshots) can be made according to "no increase in RAM/CPU usage or battery drain.

Sorry if this is silly question, but I think that this may calm down people like me caring about performance.

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The mediaplayer is already there, so it's just another pixmap away (small image, doesn't need that much RAM).

I still haven't figured out notification count, so I doubt that's going to be in the next version unless someone helps out :/

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Wow ..... you are getting closer to biuld a new OS, you already crack,hack,create so many things here love this community

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hurrain first cheers for your work buddy ;)
second please please please dont post these pic unless others not able to edit it as you have .
man it burns my ars , dont know about others :P
but it does mine so please :(


no offence again

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Confirmed bug report.

Incoming calls tend to take quite a while to actually display through this lockscreen, unlike the default one.

Anyway to increase the speed this lockscreen comes up? Appears to reload the pic everytime which is surprisingly slow seeing as it should be stored in the RAM :s

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For anyone experiencing the call lag and not showing up issue.

Use the lock slider switch to lock the screen, then unlock :) This removes the long delay. meaning u wont miss them calls :)

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Sorry to drill that topic more, but since installation - few hours ago - enhanced-locksreen keep to be reported via Conky as most RAM hungry application on my N900, using 18.7 MB real RAM and 41 MB Virtual Memory at all. Is it supposed to be like that?

As for slow appearing of lockscreen, i don't encountered that. As for missed calls, haven't had a chance to test it myself, but many people reported it here.

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Hi
i have just installed this. it looks good
but, are the song buttons just dummy also i am not getting any notification for missed calls and messages. am i missing something or what Hurrian has put up are just ideas which MAG may use. Also can i suggest putting vibration clicking on the unlock button
thanks

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Either something is/was terribly wrong in the first version, or something's wrong on your device, that shouldn't be happening.
It only uses 3.8MBs of RAM for me.

1407 1 user S 9472 3.8 0.0 /usr/bin/enhanced-lockscreen

I'll upload this version in a bit, was installing the Harmattan SDK.

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So much wasted space in the media player... let's fix that.
http://goput.it/2p4.png

And regarding larger hit areas to make it easier to press buttons:
http://goput.it/qry.png

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Diety-name-of-your-choice, it's not space WASTED. The lock screen is a LOCK screen. It's not the medial player UI. If you want to seek to a specific point in the track you're currently playing, you need the device out long enough that you should just unlock it.

Like vi_ said, minimalism. Now, I'm not saying make it utterly rigid and featureless beyond media-player control - but keep in mind that this is a lock screen.This isn't a media player, this isn't the control HUD for your device. It's a lock screen with the kind of functionality supported that a person might reasonably not want to enter their lock code for. I.E. quickly pause a song, etc. For those of us with ten-digit lock codes, even though some of us are really good at entering them fast, having the lock code interfere in a use-case where you might want to do something quickly is an issue.

The likelyhood of you urgently thinking "oh **** I need to [take a pictute/turn on the LEDs as a flashlight/stop* the music]" is a lot bigger than you going "oh **** I REALLY need to get to 1:56 of this song urgently".

Now, other controls, like changing songs and/or choosing to go to the source app for your notifications (Conversatiosn, fMMS, e-mail, calls, whatever), aren't really "needed" either - and for the latter it wouldn't be good to make them bypass the lock code either (like the to-camera/to-flashlight/etc shortcuts would be useful for - actually I think flashlight can be on/off even without the lock code being entered, so that can be integrated far easier than the camera thing). But they aren't bad ideas, and they fit well enough into the use-case of what-you-might-often-enough-want-to-do-in-order-to-justify-extra-lock-screen-additions.

Honestly, though, I think the kind of stuff you might want to do REALLY urgently - silence phone/music, turn on flashlight, take a picture - THAT is the kind of stuff you really ought to put in the lockscreen.

Then features really likely to be useful (how many notifications you have, the time and date, battery life, maybe other minor status bits like if GPS/WiFi/3G is on, and signal level, etc, other at-a-glance status info that doesn't require any major hardware polling or processing), those would be nice to have, and are likely enough to be useful to justify putting them in.

Slightly more specific, but still reasonable-enough use-cases, like go to next/prev track, or to go to the program from which the notification in question came), that makes sense to include, albeit I would question the need if it increased processing or memory consumption much. Now, a track seek bar might even honestly fit in that, just as validly as the next/prev track buttons - so I'm not actually against that per se - I just do NOT think that stuff like that should be put into the mockups of the eventual next version JUST to add more UI components.

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I've uploaded 0.2 to the repos, nothing has changed since yesterday except that the slider doesn't suck anymore.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2090uf7.jpg

The background is embedded in the binary, but you can set one manually (no GUI yet) by making a config file.

Add
The image should change the next time the lockscreen shows.

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can't bo downed now*+#-

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I'm on my N900 right now, so I cant really cut and paste. Oh man, I cant count how many times I opened the camera cover, closed the camera app, and turned on the flashlight from the applet. It's rather annoying. Perhaps we should watch for a held proximity sensor while the slide is opened to turn on the flashlight and not open the camera app.
And yeah, I agree with you on the battery/signal level info, just havent found a place to put it. i'll probably allocate another bar to that (sysinfo bar anyone?)
You may want to ask MAG regarding whether launching an app from a notification bypasses the lock code.

Anyways, I personally think having the seek bar right there (can probably auto-hide when not being used though) is useful. I just think that making the landscape media bar use more space and show the nice album art is cool, instead of the tiny thumbnail it used to be.

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Im currently uploading a vid of version 0.2, it may be added to first post if you like.


edit:

http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/AmdWMWN-HKc/hqdefault.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdWMWN-HKc

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I totally agree with Mentalist Traceur. Please, don't overbloat it. Or at least, make everything configurable. But even so, such "candies" got lowest possible priority.

As for new version, enhanced-lockscreen now use 18.3 RAM and 40.7 virtual memory for me. Honestly, i don't think that it's something on my device - I'm very careful with tweaking etc, doing rotfs+optfs backups regularly, and restoring it after every failed attempt to tweak something - even if could reverse by other means, theoretically. I'm using latest CSSU, kp47, ext4 instead of ext3 for home... None of these seems related to problem.

I really have no idea why it eats so much RAM. Can other people confirm/deny this happening?

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Wow I can't believe it. You actually made it better!

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From great idea to bloatware in just 2 days and using just mockups, I think that's a new record.

Commenting on the actual application, though; the main purpose of a lock screen is to get a quick glance at info and then unlock it easily. No need for so many widgets, just big text with an easy way to tell the type apart. Same for the clock, it should be bigger. Music player controls are a convenience, so they shouldn't take so much space and call so much attention to themselves.

Another thing, the edge to edge drag to unlock bar is really uncomfortable in a device as wide as the N900, you need to move your finger more with this enhanced lockscreen than with the default one. That's definitely a strike against ease of use. Even if it's just a button, like on 0.1, it shouldn't be on the edge of the screen, center it more, place it where your finger would naturally rest after grabbing the phone from your pocket. (Don't mention Android lockscreens, those are usually for portrait oriented display phones.)

I'm actually pretty happy with the current N900 lock screen's layout, I'm interested in this project for the possible extensibility and customization (removing that "slide to unlock" text, making it single tap so it's faster, etc) It's not like you need many fancy unlocking processes if you need to press the power key first anyway.

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It was a brainstorm idea in screen design from Hurrian, & its implementation may be found unwanted or just impractical by Mohammed, but the message & call notifications with names seemed to me as a user very practical & desirable.

When doing a quick check, it would be nice to just hit the button to see not just if any messages or calls had come in, but from whom. There are lots of times you need to make a quick check, & the decision on whether to respond immediately is usually based on who the calls & messages are from.

Also FWIW: I think the icons are a better choice because they alleviate any need for setting a language for the application and the associated files for accomodating different languages. It might also reduce comprehension time for a new user to have an unlock padlock icon somehow associated with the slider.

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I'm not sure about you, but certain emails, calls, messages are more important than others. Having a list instead of or as well as the number of such new items would be of great use to me. Getting a borderline spam email is very different then getting an email from a close friend, or from my employer. Looking at the lock screen with this information would be very useful. So to reiterate, I know this was considered in previous mockups but using a small font showing date,sender and subject would be very very welcome. Keep up the thought process. So far it looks like a great project.

fwrnando you don't want a "cluttered" lock screen so perhaps you should be productive and specify exactly what you want to see rather than what you think everybody should want, and step away from putting down others' ideas of a perfect lock screen. Some of us are audiophiles and use our phone largely to listen to music. I know that when I'm cycling a lock screen similar to what has been developed with the feature I specified above would be perfect.

You have obviously never had my problem, namely unlocking the phone while it's in my pocket only to start some random application or call some random person. There are reasons for the lock screen. Actually I would be interested in a more complicated mechanism for unlocking like Android had at least in 1.5-1.6.

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Erm... i used leafpad... is that ok?
so instead of nano

I go:

Add
but the lockscreen doesn't change wallpapers?

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It is so damn hard to please everyone.
http://goput.it/xf2.png
http://goput.it/t7c.png

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Here's my htop:
http://fleursdudharma.com/img/Screen...626-094313.png

I don't know really what it means but it looks big numbers

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Nothing personal, but I must shun you now - copy and paste is something the N900 does just fine in my opinion. (Although I have Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys mapped to Fn+[Arrow Keys], and that can combine with Shift for very easy mass-text-selection.

The current camera-ui2, i.e. the camera-ui replacement in the CSSU, has an option to disable camera opening at lens-camera-open.

ave you tried Camera Lens Launcher? It lets you disable Camera launch at camera lens open and either launch any other program (flashlight included) or have it pop-up a menu with whatever programs you could possibly want to launch. (Package name for apt-get is cl-launcher, but it's visible/downloadable through FAM/HAM too.) Might not be in the lower repos though. I have it set to launch a menu with Flashlight, all three basic camera apps (stock, BlessN900, and FCamera), FrontView900, and the barcode scanner. Maybe something else, I don't recall.

I think they should just go in the bar with the time/date, in the upper corners. MohammadAG, if you're going to implement this, please have it use the standard theme icons for this.

Being that this is a forum, I presume he's read what I said and will comment when/if he feels appropriate.

I'm not saying it won't be useful for some people (I'd say no for auto-hide unless it doesn't impact processing at all; let it be configurable with GConf and those who don't want it can just disable it.)

My first point was that since it's a lock screen, and ideally one that's lightweight, we'd want to limit functionality only to the things that are more realistically going to be used by many people - as much as I hate to marginalize minorities, the fact of the matter is that unless anyone else here asking for features is awesome enough to code them, we're basically sitting around going OMG MohammadAG plz can we haz teh featurez?

And MohammadAG, amazing as he is, is a human with a life and limited time.

So first priority goes to the features that are actually likely to be used by many many people, and features that will add less-than-necessary features that aren't really needed on a lock screen shouldn't be added unless a system is coded-in that doesn't load them up and execute them in the background if people don't want them.

My second point was that we shouldn't look for reasons to add features - features that need to be added will add themselves, so to speak, because we'll realize there's a want/possible-need for them, and then we can add/make room if needed.

I didn't understand why you embedded it in the binary though. Also, I'm not sure why you're avoiding using the 'currently set theme' approach to pull the background.

The directory /etc/hildon/theme/ always symlinks to the directory of the currently selected theme (unless of course something screws it up - I don't know if it'll reset itself at boot if something deletes it or symlinks it elsewhere or overrides it, but I haven't heard of that happening in the entire time I've been on this forum).

The directory startup-wizard in a theme's directory contains the background for the wizard you see when the N900 looses charge and/or gets the battery pulled long enough for the internal mini battery to discharge enough for it to ask you to confirm the date. This is, in most themes, the same background you had hardcoded into the binary initially.

So /etc/hildon/theme/startup-wizard/wallpaper.png is, in most themes, the same red version of the water splashing NSeries/alpha Theme background. I just don't see why there's a need to hard-code the default background into the binary - or if you do, why it can't by default check in the theme directory for the image (if you want themes to provide a special image for the enhanced lock screen background), instead of requiring the user to manually make a config file.

That said, having an optional config file is something, at least, and I appreciate already having that option.

Regarding fwrnando's points: He's mostly right in my opinion - I just fiddled with the 0.2 version and the slider isn't big enough to comfortably paw at it with your thumb - it takes actual precision.

I actually thought aesthetically it was nice to have it along the entire length of the screen, but realistically, yes, it's too long for a comfortable swipe. Having it at the bottom also means you can't as comfortably thumb it all the way to the end / all the way from the beginning with the thumb of the hand you're holding the device in. Honestly, even using the SAME size and location of the default lock screen is very convenient (it does portrait too in CSSU with forced rotation - the background isn't meant for portrait though, causing it to look ugly). The same dimensions would also mean you can use the same icon and background as whatever the theme's lockscreen is - then the theme just needs a portrait background and boom - not only do we have a more single-hand-unlock friendly layout, but we also have the foundation of a CSSU-usable lockscreen recode.

More flexibility/customizability could be added to that as time goes on, of course.

I also think like some others here that the text would be nice - icons can be used of course, but text showing the sender/caller/whatever of the notification would be nice where applicable, specifically because that's part of the information you might like to have when opening a lock screen. Though I do agree that icons for explaining WHAT a given notification is of is prob'ly better then text - I.E. Email Icon | [number of emails and names of senders], in general terms. I just really don't want to see fragmentation in images used.

ESPECIALLY because THIS may actually make it's way into the CSSU if it's polished up and modified so that the defaults all provide just stock lock-screen appearance + customization versatility.

happymonkey: I never shared your problem of managing to unlock the lock slider with a case... Honestly, that's what lock codes are for. The only time's I've ever accidentally done something like that is by leaving the screen unlocked when putting it into my case or something. BUT, I can understand what you're saying. Still, it doesn't change the above issues with the current lock-slider. A more complicated way is doable certainly, but I don't think it should be the default. Plus, if you properly lock the screen, to unlock it in-pocket through the lockscreen you have to have your pocket arrangement such that the power button gets pressed often - it's surprising to me you don't reboot/shut-off your phone in your pocket, honestly. But I understand your issue and can see how it would be annoying; I just think that we'd be getting into the extra-feature-bloat thing. (Oh and if your phone opens to lock screen in portrait, which I suspect is the position it's in in your pocket, this lockscreen rotates, and the portrait mode slider length is close to the stock landscape one.

dark_angel: You have to either reboot or

Ctrl+C will then get you back to being able to enter commands. Near as I can tell Ctrl+C doesn't stop the enhanced-lockscreen once launched tho.

Finally: both opening the lens cover and sliding open the keyboard seems to have an "unlock" effect currently, in that they exit you out of the unlock screen just as actual unlocking would.

Other than that, I can visibly see a split second after unlocking that the lockscreen is there before it vanishes - I get that this is an inevitable consequence of using hackery to get it working, but just saying.

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Its home screen or lock screen ? :D Add a menu button to complete this :D

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Mentalist Traceur: cl-launcher does nothing but break auto-launch for me. If I select it to launch blessn900, when I open the screen, it does nothing but open the screen.

I didn't really have time to word my cut and paste statement, I should've said that since handling the TMO forum submit textarea is fiddly at best with the touchscreen, it's difficult (for me, who usually uses the mouse to select text.)

EDIT: Can somebody please, please give me better icon glyphs for the signal indicator, WiFi and battery?

They're all lock screens.

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hmmm...

[main]
background-url=/home/user/MyDocs/Images/Wallpapers/bokeh_0

doesn't seem to show any image... now it's just black... should i put bokeh_0.jpg?

it's as though i deleted the background image after i put the above command

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thanks....this is awesome! :D

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Wait, what's auto-launch do, exactly?

Well, I was kidding about shunning, obviously. To each their own - I'm not going to sit here and hold it against people for not being comfortable using one device's text-select+copy+paste options.

If you want to use the stock ones (I say yes you do :P ) use the ones in /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/ I believe (no clue where they are in there though, off the top of my head). The folders in that folder are by pixel size though, so use that for narrowing down where they could be based on size in the status menu.

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The auto-launch would be the launching of blessn900/camera-ui/fcamera/whatever app you want.

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this is so ****ing awesome, Mag ur the man .........

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Why is it so that when I leave the browser as the active window and lock the screen and then unlock with the lockscreen I go to the desktop instead of the browser?

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Mag buddy can i get the debian file ? i cant fking update my repos.dont know why but .thanks in advance if u just can provide debian file.

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Has anyone noticed that you can now open the keylock by just tapping the lower right corner of this new lockscreen.

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Is it possible to unlock the screen without using the button?

:)

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yes something like double tap like on the n9