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Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

Lol. I like the fix it yourself tag. It wasn't me, but that, in a nutshell, is the essence of my post above :)

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

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Originally Posted by marktold (Post 655466)

Would it be possible to loose the idea to have everything visible on one screen.

Make lots of stuff bigger and you would have to scroll down. Include some battery data as well

Markus

I actually like the current look. Marktold's suggestion of going to the information being presented larger is a good one.

Rather than scrolling, why not have pages, ala the four Maemo homepages on the device. NewLC has a symbian application called Phone Info that displays on one screen

IMEI,
MAC address,
Bluetooth address,
Machine id
Model Name
Platform
Firmware version
Device on for hh:mm:ss

On a second screen it displays
the various drives

On another screen it displays

CPU Speed
CPU type
Total RAM
Screen Resolution (L x W in pixels)
Application area size (L x W in pixels)

On yet another screen it displays the available type fonts using a
1234, Lorem ipsum ... text sample to display the font.

Having Conky display it's current information plus whatever is mentioned above that is not in Conky right now would turn it into a one stop shopping device information tool. Healthcheck displays some of the information available in Conky and uses a scrolling interface.

The classic black background with vibrant colors for the information is, to me, very appealing as a look for a system widget. Moving the information to several pages will certainly provide additional space for increasing the displayed size of the information.

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

Heres how its looking on my N900 with my custom modified config ...
Attachment 9870

Nothing drastic just got rid of the flat bright colors and made the bars thinner.

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

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Originally Posted by plaban (Post 655526)

Some ideas

Touche. Some ideas for you :)

By the way, when I built the package, I configured it without support for the weather stuff, primarily because I'm lazy and the dependencies weren't trivially solved. As there's the OmWeather widget already, I figured we could live with that.

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggzy (Post 655541)

Heres how its looking on my N900 with my custom modified config ...
Attachment 9870

Nothing drastic just got rid of the flat bright colors and made the bars thinner.

Can you please share the config file along with the battery icons and signal icons?

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

Quote:

Originally Posted by plaban (Post 655549)

Can you please share the config file along with the battery icons and signal icons?

The battery and signal mods are in the n900 mods topic, here is my conky config file .. http://www.speedyshare.com/files/22403298/conky.conf

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

Quote:

Originally Posted by biggzy (Post 655561)

The battery and signal mods are in the n900 mods topic, here is my conky config file .. http://www.speedyshare.com/files/22403298/conky.conf

Looking nice :)

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

It will nice if more .config files are shared here :)

Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

I thought I'd request support for a Conky desktop overlay, that would be awesome. Perhaps a interested coder can ask the developer of Live Wallpaper how you make a widget that is beneath icons and above the background.