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Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
Sounded lika great app, installed it but I have a few issues, don't mean to whine...
No problem, this is why there is a thread for this!

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
To start the app from the icon is quite slow, 10 secs or so, any chance to improve that or is this just Maemo?
It shouldn't be that slow, but for some reason it is.
You should know hovever that the app itself is running in the background - sitting there and doing nothing all the time - the icon just asks the running app to place a new widget on the screen.

Note that you can also do this with the Desktop menu / Add Widget menu. It may be a little quicker.

I'm considering removing the app menu icon alltogether (or changing its purpose).

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
Also, after starting the program (with other apps open in the background), it jumps to the app switcher, then I have to switch back to desktop, and then delete the "your Notes here!" text
The next version will have the "Your notes here" removed by default when you first click on the note.

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
- whereas what I'd like to do is to start writing my Note directly, like just clicking the icon and type.
Point taken. What would you think about another which would be as small as a shortcut whose purpose would solely to create new notes?

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
There is no way (I've found) to determine any defaults- where the first sticky note pops up and what color it should be.
If you use the + button on an existing widget, the new one will "inherit" the colour from that one.

The next version will have a settings dialog in which you can set these stuff rather easily for any new widget.

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
Now it lands on top of my calendar in not so transparent black...
Well, Hildon decides where the note goes. By default it tries to arrange it in such a way that it doesn't intersect with anything on the desktop. If this is not possible, it just places it in the upper left corner.
I have plans to make the widget easily movable (without entering edit mode), but it can be a little tricky - the desktop doesn't send any drag events to the widget.

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
All-in-all, it is involving several steps and relatively time consuming to make a little note. Any chance that you could and would work your magic to improve any of these issues?
Yes. User experience is a top priority for me for this little app.

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
The ability to have notes pop up after or at a certain time (as suggested earlier in this thread) would be super. I would also much appreciate a safety step so deleting a note becomes more error-proof, now its just one accidental click away.
Now this is a good idea.
My thought is a pop-up message asking if you really want to delete the note.
Will this suffice?

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry View Post
But GPS integration...errrm...GPS needs a line of sight to the satellite so it wouldn't work in a shopping mall, only when you drive by. And then you would need to define an area for each geo-tagged note, I guess. Sorry, but this sounds a little bit like bloatware without much practical use, at least for me. Please keep an option to stay with a no-frills small app "Sticky notes plain" if you're serious with developing this.
Well, I agree with you on this one.

Originally Posted by jurop88 View Post
I mean, when you double click on the widget, the widget could evidence himself (and all the instances), so intercepting all the events instead of leaving the desktop able to do so.
Well, I would be grateful if you can tell me how to do this, or either point me to someone who can.
As it stands, the desktop widgets (neither of them) simply doesn't get any drag events from the desktop.

Originally Posted by jurop88 View Post
This way it will become possible to select text with fingers or stylus, CTRL+C CTRL+V, ETC.
Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and such are already possible. Also possible to select text with Shift + arrow keys.
(The only feature missing is selecting them by dragging - which is not possible because of the reasons above. If you know a workaround or someone who knows a workarund, it is welcome.)

Originally Posted by jurop88 View Post
Don't know what could be doable and how much effort could be needed, but it's a brainstorm.
Thank you for the app anyway, something like that was really needed!
Thanks!
Your ideas are good - although some of them are simply can't be implemented because of the limitations of Hildon-desktop.

About your toolbar idea - it is not bad (was already recommended), but I don't have an idea about how to fit it onto the finger-friendly UI.

Originally Posted by pelago View Post
Nice app. Personally, I think you should be wary of feature creep. Features like notes that act like alarms or location-specific notes or to-do lists should probably be separate apps.
Well, good thought.
There is already an alarm built-in to Maemo.
As for location-aware alarm, that is a good idea for a separate app.

I'm afraid it is out of my scope for Sticky Notes.
(Still, if someone wants to implement it, I'll happily include the feature.)

Although the sticky todo widget is easily doable, so I will create that in some time.

Last edited by Venemo; 2010-06-29 at 12:34.