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geneven	2010-03-16 , 04:43
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Originally Posted by b0unc3

Reducing the buttons size, make it looks bad and become no more finger-friendly. I think I can make the option to add another row of four buttons, but from that point of view, who wants to stop at 2 rows ??
BTW I will see how to manage this feature.

Regards.

From my point of view, the icons I have on my N900 desktop make it harder to see and enjoy the cool backgrounds I have found, so anything that gives me a better place to put them such as Quick Launch is a plus.

So I agree, who wants to stop at 2 rows!

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b0unc3	2010-03-17 , 19:31
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Hello,

I just put a new version (0.4) on extras-testing:
http://http://maemo.org/packages/pac...ick-launch/0.4

the improvements I made are the follows :

moved control panel applet to extras category
fix small bugs
apps list sorted alphabetically
setting no-icon for non-setted slots
change ok click behavoir

There are other two requested features:
the possibility to call quick-launch (simply popup the statusbar menu) with a shortcut and the possibility to add more rows.
For the first one I'm looking how to do it ( if someone have any hint, please give me ), the second I think it's not realizable (and also a little bit "insane"

)

P.S.: if after upgrading the statusbar crash, simply reboot

Best Regards,
Daniele Maio

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	Ronaldo	2010-03-17 , 19:39
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found a bug i think , i went to settings quick launch and clicked on a tab then decided i didnt want to change it and clicked blank space but on the main screen it selected angry birds as it was the 1st on the list and the ok button was greyed out.

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b0unc3	2010-03-17 , 20:29
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Originally Posted by Ronaldo

found a bug i think , i went to settings quick launch and clicked on a tab then decided i didnt want to change it and clicked blank space but on the main screen it selected angry birds as it was the 1st on the list and the ok button was greyed out.

Yes you are right. I've tried many workarounds to avoid this behavior but, unfortunately, at the moment, no one worked out

(I will investigate if it depends on the HildonTouchSelector)

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	felbutss	2010-03-22 , 02:06
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Originally Posted by b0unc3

Hello,

I've just released a working version of quick-launch (0.3).
Quick Launch is brainstorm implementation : http://http://maemo.org/community/br...tatusbar_menu/

It's basically a statusbar item that shows four buttons each of which can be configured through a control panel applet to set a shortcut to your preferred applications.

It's on extras-testing now : http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ck-launch/0.3/

Screenshot:

Test&Vote

Best Regards,
Daniele Maio.

hey mate. could you help at all with this??

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47742

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b0unc3	2010-03-24 , 11:55
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Hello guys,

today I waked up with an idea on my mind regarding quick launch. Since I've realized that having it openable by a key shortcut or similar is mandatory, I think I've reached a solution.
For example when you open the camera shutter (so that also the others request would be satisfied) it doesn't make appear the statusbar menu (since it seems impossible, I have received no reply on that) , but, instead it make appear a simple dialog where you can choose the app you wish.
Now, why a dialog ?
A dialog can potentially contains n-icons of apps (or, moreover, all the apps you've installed in your device

), and I can add a button to run a program on-the-fly (like Alt+F2 does on standard desktop).
Other option would be make all the things live together : having the statusbar applet that contains your "more preferred" applications and the dialog that contains all (or n) apps.
Before going on to code , I would like to know what you think about it ?

Best Regards,
Daniele Maio

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geneven	2010-03-29 , 10:56
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Sounds worthwhile to me!

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Shady 91'	2010-04-03 , 07:10
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i need a second quick launch bar....is it possible to create? i hope yes

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Matan	2010-04-03 , 08:07
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If you want to open the status menu by a command, install this package:
http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n90...+0m5_armel.deb . After that the command

Code:

dbus-send --type=signal --session /com/nokia/hildon_desktop com.nokia.hildon_desktop.open_status_menu

opens the status-menu. The same command with close instead of open closes it.

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ffarber	2010-04-03 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by b0unc3

Hello guys,

today I waked up with an idea on my mind regarding quick launch. Since I've realized that having it openable by a key shortcut or similar is mandatory, I think I've reached a solution.
For example when you open the camera shutter (so that also the others request would be satisfied) it doesn't make appear the statusbar menu (since it seems impossible, I have received no reply on that) , but, instead it make appear a simple dialog where you can choose the app you wish.
Now, why a dialog ?
A dialog can potentially contains n-icons of apps (or, moreover, all the apps you've installed in your device ), and I can add a button to run a program on-the-fly (like Alt+F2 does on standard desktop).
Other option would be make all the things live together : having the statusbar applet that contains your "more preferred" applications and the dialog that contains all (or n) apps.
Before going on to code , I would like to know what you think about it ?

Best Regards,
Daniele Maio

I like this idea as well!

By the way, great app. I would lile to move it's position in the status bar as discussed in this Thread. I want to move it nearer to the top so it doesn't get scrolled off the bottom of the status bar when there are a lot of activities going on. Only the built-in functions are listed in '/ect/hildon-desktop/status-menu.plugins' Does anyone know how to do that?

Thanks,

Fred

Last edited by ffarber; 2010-04-03 at 17:58.