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solideogloria | # 171 | 2009-10-10, 14:47 | Report

please add a 2G/3G switch widget discussed here

Last edited by solideogloria; 2009-10-10 at 14:47. Reason: fix typo

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allnameswereout | # 172 | 2009-10-10, 20:47 | Report

Originally Posted by OVK View Post

I'd like to have a

Get Home with public transportation widget. First of all, the user would enter the location (adress) of user's home. This info would then be stored in the widget. When started the widget would get the GPS data and feed the users current location to a web service (provided by the public transport authorities of the city in which the user lives) which would then suggest a public transportation method to go home. (For example, I live in Helsinki and the site to get the traffic info is http://aikataulut.ytv.fi/reittiopas/en/ I am sure that all the major cities have similar web sites).

Well, why the widget and not just use the web service directly with the browser? Because sometimes you might not know where you are and also not be in a condition to write the two addresses...

On iPhone this is implemented as app(s).

On Symbian I have application which just grabs current GPS location and sends thats to mobile site, asking me if I want to use that as starting location. This works in web browser... but I can rant for 10 minutes about the shitty interface...

Anyway, you can have the data offline (but its question if its allowed to grab all data from databases? license it?) or online. In any case, they do differ a lot per country, or even public transport corporation. So you're gonna end up with a lot of parsers.

joppu | # 173 | 2009-10-10, 21:07 | Report

Originally Posted by solideogloria View Post

please add a 2G/3G switch widget discussed here

Maybe even a bigger switchboard with buttons for WLAN, Bluetooth, 3g and Cellular?

We really should have a brainstorm type page, one for widgets and one for apps. Then Everyone could vote for the most useful ones and the devs would know what to work on?

Edit:

Last edited by joppu; 2009-10-10 at 21:36.

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allnameswereout | # 174 | 2009-10-10, 21:29 | Report

Originally Posted by Kusk View Post

What I would really really like, is an maemo version of OSX's Nerdtool/Geektool. Its basically a transparent xterm that displays the output of a command/shellscript on the desktop. There should be an option to make it update at certain intervals.

I use Nerdtool on OSX to curl a webpage, collect the data that I need, make it readable and then output it on the desktop.

I dont think it would be that hard to make...

Geektool in action http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ecrans.php

Looks like Guake/Tilda and Conky with some JPEG.

RevdKathy | # 175 | 2009-10-11, 09:29 | Report

Can I echo the suggestion for a 'tide times' widget? Knowing whether it's a good moment to go walk on the nearest beach would be dead handy.

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EIPI | # 176 | 2009-10-11, 09:35 | Report

Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post

Can I echo the suggestion for a 'tide times' widget? Knowing whether it's a good moment to go walk on the nearest beach would be dead handy.

That sounds like a fantastic add-on for OMWeather...

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jolo | # 177 | 2009-10-11, 09:49 | Report

Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post

Can I echo the suggestion for a 'tide times' widget? Knowing whether it's a good moment to go walk on the nearest beach would be dead handy.

A "Surf's Up" widget sounds actually pretty cool.

vvaz | # 178 | 2009-10-11, 10:19 | Report

One of first fruits of leased 300 N900s

Looks like with little effort you can use Plasma widgets with Qt 4.6:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4078

Here is screenshot with basic ones:

List of more interesting (and N900 relevant) widgets available:

Analog Clock (visible on screenshot)
Binary Clock
Calculator
Calendar
Character Selector
Chemistry
Comic Strip
Dictionary
Digital Clock (visible on screenshot)
Eyes (visible on screenshot)
Fifteen Puzzle
LCD Weather Station
Leave A Note (Yellow Notes version)
Life
Luna (moon phases)
Magnifique (magnification glass for desktop)
Microblogging
News (RSS reader)
Notes (YA Yellow Notes version)
Pastebin (paste text/images to a remote location)
Picture Frame
Remember The Milk
RSS Now
Various system monitors
Timer
Trashcan
Twitter Microblogging
Unit Converter
Weather Forecast
Web Browser (simple WebKit based browser)
World Clock

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pelago | # 179 | 2009-10-11, 11:31 | Report

Originally Posted by vvaz View Post

Looks like with little effort you can use Plasma widgets with Qt 4.6

Excellent work! Useful for power users etc., although they obviously don't follow the Widget UI guidelines for native widgets, so maybe not to be recommended for normal end users.

vvaz | # 180 | 2009-10-12, 09:28 | Report

Video of Plasma widgets running on N900:

http://dot.kde.org/2009/10/12/free-n900

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