Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

hey Confusedfella. Have you checked out Prismic wallpaper manager for the N900. it is a background application for the N900. The are hundreds of backgrounds to choose from, in various categories. I did a review on it about 6 months ago on my website.

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

Realy useful app, MAG! One problem thou, it shows up while I use the pone app as well. You should make another parameter, if you hold down the proximity sensor for like over 5 sec, it should cancel launching the media bar, this way it wont show up, when the phone is at your ear.

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

Anybody else had the mediabar freeze on them and just remain stuck in the left hand corner rather than the right corner, requiring a reboot? I assume I had one to many apps open and an incomming phone call was too much for the processor to cope with but nothing else froze bar the mediabar.

Apart from this the mediabar seems more intrusive somehow compared to my old 5800, appering when ever my hand goes anywhere near the proximty meter, rather than when I want it to appear as it did on the 5800.

I wonder if there is anyway it can only be made to appear when a finger is held over the meter for say a second or more?

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

You can change the proximity time-out in the settings (located in the 'general' section of the Maemo settings screen). This determines for how long the sensor needs to be activated before the menubar appears (in milliseconds). If you want the menubar to appear after one second, set the proximity time-out to 1000. :)

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

This app cause my hildon-desktop and hildon-home become unstable and frame dropped. Uninstalled it and my device feel healthier.

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

How exactly does it make them unstable? No, it's not the app, I'm sure of that as both have no idea it's even there.

The 5800 had a button, not a sensor.

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

Hey Mohammad - very impressed with this extremely useful widget. The simplicity, quality and elegance of the concept are the biggest appeals for me.

Good to see ideas sparking from others, but I'm firmly of the mind that the original concept is usually the best and suggest that MediaBar is close to optimal now - if too many options are catered for the beauty and simplicity of a great idea can be lost.

That said, some of the ideas & suggestions above open new prospects that could form the basis of alternative/parallel apps.

Thanks for your work on this, Mohammad.

Steve Barker

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

Will movable mediabar be implemented?
If you need graphics, tell me what you want.

Can't wait for the next 3 updates :P

thanks MohammadAG!

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

I assumed the other apps open overloaded the processor and the mediabar just didn't like it, however it has stuck open a few times but today when I had a few more apps open was the first time I needed a reboot. My question was asking if anybody else had the same issue, if nobody else has it must just be my N900.

Until I have just checked I nver realised it was a button I alwauys assumed it was the proximty meter before today!! Anyway It does make you wonder why Nokia ever did use a seperate button just for this one shortcut when your idea is far simpler.

Re: [Announce] Media bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
 

would be nice to somehow toggle the mediabar though the camera button.
Maybe somehow this could be implemented in shortcutd ?