After having a short brainstorm, admiral0 and I proudly present:

ls-magic



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Version 1.1 is out now, including a daemon using far less battery and installation via .deb package!
Also, the Hack is now named lpsmagic.
As i do not have any time at the moment, admiral0 is doing the work, so please give kudos to him. To make updating easier, there is a new thread for this mod, located here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1156548
Any questions/ideas/bugs/requests should be placed in the new thread.
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• Created deb that backs up your system's css and installs new one.
• CPU usage has dropped (using caching in RAM for images).
• No more shell scripts. fully py
• Images moved to /opt/lpsmagic/icons (dpkg complains....)
• Upstart script. Automatic startup

Steps to successfully run this:

1. Install deb.
2. Reboot

Also read this if you are interested in next version of lpsmagic.
Enjoy the deb
Alternative link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5225087/ls-magic_1.1_armel.deb

Is it for N9(50)? If yes, it should sit in Harmattan section (got subsection for harmattanish "apps"), to not waste time of Maemo users. Thanks in advance.

/Estel

estel: you are right, thanks

Before I go any further, I'd like to ask, is there a way to change the font color, as red/blue are best for my screen....

Also is there a way to change the date to show in the format:
Month/Day/Year...

Thank you for your hard work and look forward to more development of this... maybe even a .deb at some point... This is an amazing...

Edit: Already modified the color of the icons... I assume the font is whatever color you've put your standby screen font to

Hi,
you can choose an other font by replacing the font file in /usr/home/MyDocs/ls-magic. If you want to, you can put another font file there, and change the name in the python script.

please tell me if we missed something in the installation routine!

a .deb package is easy to build an we will make one for sure, but it is too early as the code is not really done yet, so that would be a lot of work wich is not neccessary yet.

you can change the color of the text, but the icons are white by default. we are trying to find a good way to recolor them with the text. what changes did you do?

also, for some people (including me) the battery icon does not change, and alsways displays an usb plug. we will adress that soon.

excellent. Please work on a UI for customisation. I can see this becoming huge.

I've also done something similiar for the LockScreenQuote app. But I have a doubt about the battery consumption. Are you noticing any battery drain? What about the CPU usage of Xterm? I'm getting around 12-25% usage.

as xterm does not need to run, it doesnt take battery. the script is started with nohup, so it does not need a running terminal application anymore.

so far i did not notice extra battery draining, we will see that in a few days of usage.

i will be offline for about ten hours or so from now. feel free to ask stuff, but dont mind if i cant answer. admiral0 will be here later, i guess.

@ejasmudar
You are right about battery consumption. The display will consume 100% more during idle(there are twice things displayed as before), but it's a tradeoff with no info.
The python script for now doesn't do any caching/preloading so it consumes more than it should. Also the code is written at 3am so not the best code out there (loading all the icons that we don't even use...).

if people are interested in this, i can rewrite this in C++/QPainter to be more easy on RAM.