Re: Having more than 4 desktops?
 

I suppose... but why?

More desktops = more widgets = less battery.
Besides, four desktops provide plenty of space for everything!

Re: Having more than 4 desktops?
 

There is a limit in the code for 4 desktops.

Re: Having more than 4 desktops?
 

How are widgets affecting battery while in the background if coded properly?
(except maybe the amount of ram?)

Re: Having more than 4 desktops?
 

4 desktops isn't enough for me at the moment
add contacts and widgets and apps shortcut -> you fill them up pretty quickly

i guess you haven't found Extras repo yet?

Re: Adding More Panorama Desktops
 

The following threads have been merged into this thread:

• "Allowing more than 4 desktops?" with fifteen posts
• "Having more than 4 desktops?" with five posts

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Modified hildon desktop (version 1.05) supports up to 9 desktop views. To add a view, use the commands (for example):
Still arranged in a cycle.

To install, see my signature.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Great work Matan! works perfectly :)

Does it seem possible to make it with up and down desktops in the future or is it not possible program wise..?

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

With the arrows, it should be easy. With touch screen dragging, I think it is a bit harder, but I am not going to try.

Re: Having more than 4 desktops?
 

Lol yeah I've found it! Testing and devel too. I filled one screen with 10 of my most important contacts, one with calendar, ip widget and a grid of shortcuts. The other screens I filled with random widgets that I don't really use :P So I guess I could do with 2 desktops :D

But seriously, having 4 desktops is a great thing. I'm really angry with myself for not putting all of them to good use :P

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Someone should write a GUI for this :D.

That's a pretty cool upgrade.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

What happens if Nokia releases a new version of hildon-desktop ?

Is it not possible to add more destops with existing hildon-desktop somehow?

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

If you install an upgrade that includes a new hildon-desktop package (as PR1.2 will), it will overwrite the binary installed by my package, and you won't be able to use all enhancements, including more than 4 desktops.

Then you will be able to reinstall modified-hildon-desktop which will restore all enhancements, but might miss new features and bug fixes in the new hildon-desktop. Or you can wait until I adapt the modified-hildon-desktop patch to the new version of hildon-desktop. Depending on how much time in advance I will know which version of hildon-desktop is in PR1.2, that wait might be as short as no wait at all.

You can't use more than 4 desktops in standard hildon-desktop, since there is hard limit of 4 desktops in the program. You can use less than 4 if you want.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Is it possible to make a small program that overrides the hard limit..in default and future updates of the hildon-desktop package?

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Definitely a good idea. Wish someone would pick up the idea!

How to increase desktop pages N900
 

N900 comes with 4 main desktop pages. Does anuone know if that can be increased?

Re: How to increase desktop pages N900
 

Search for Matan's "modified-hildon-desktop" in this forum.
You can have up to 9 desktops.

Re: How to increase desktop pages N900
 

Thanks. Could not find it yet but keep searching -;)

Re: How to increase desktop pages N900
 

Found it! How do you install that file?

Re: How to increase desktop pages N900
 

The easiest way is by using my repository - follow the link in my signature.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

The thread "How to increase desktop pages N900" with four posts has been merged into this thread.

Re: How to increase desktop pages N900
 

Tanks will start it up trough my N900.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Amazing!!!!! 6 desktop for me is perfect!! Thanks very much for you work!!

There's some trouble about using modified hildon desktop?

Regards

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

Of course you can add more desktops its open source for crying out loud you can do what ever you want.

But could i say that the N900 is NOT an iPhone its much much more and rather than copying the ideas of iPhone and continuously comparing it to the iPhone that people should come up with more constructive ideas on how to improve it and make this great peace of engineering with a fantastic open source Linux OS do a lot more that iPhone could only dream of...

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

I'm agree, but i think that have more desktops does not mean be like iPhone... it's totaly different: more desktops because there are a lot of widget, so...

In iPhone is not possible put what you want on desktop... :-)

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

is it possible to revert it back to default 4 desktop?

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

uninstall the modded desktop or make:

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

I had no idea that iPhones have multiple desktops; you are assuming that the idea of having more desktops is lust for emulating iPhones! Having lots of desktops is fun, and so is having lots of backgrounds is even funner. How do you know about what iPhone is doing? Why do you care?

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

heard the saying
" To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy"

or

"to beat your enemy you have to know your enemy"

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

Touche, I guess, but I think that the N900 has enough of a dynamic going that constantly saying that it should or shouldn't emulate the iPhone has become passe. The N900 is like the N900 and should emulate the N900. I think you actually agree with that.

BTW, wasn't it Pogo that said something like, "we have become the enemy and he is us"? If not, he should have.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

Maybe you could add a section in your repository so that we can tell what OS version your current Modified Hildon-Desktop is based on?

Thanks for a great mod!

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

WHY ART GALLERIES ARE BAD

1. Most art galleries are mostly rooms with things hanging on walls. That's a lot of wasted space!

2. You spend a lot of time in rooms already. If you go to an art gallery, you are spending energy you need in rooms where you don't need to be. That leaves you less energy to live your life in the important rooms.

3. People shouldn't be spending their lives on art when they could be doing important things like writing programs, and you shouldn't encourage them by looking at the stuff they created.

4. The further you go into an art gallery, the more rooms you have to go thru to get back to where you need to be. This makes it more difficult to get back to the rooms where you should be doing important things like writing programs.

5. Why does anyone want to create these big empty places with art on the walls anyway? There is no reason for them. We should make it more difficult for them to create the rooms and to get to them. The only people who can create rooms like that should be people who understand how to do important things like writing programs.

PS. Thanks for the new repository, and the added rooms!

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

hey matan.

first of all: great mod! :)

but:
i can't change the background of my additional desktop.
it doesn't work if i set it before i activate it with the second command you posted and even doesn't work afterwards.

so i have to workaround with setting the background of my first desktop, then activate the fifth which will set this image there too and then change the background of my first desktop back to the normal one.

but when i have to shutdown/reboot the background changes back to the image of my first screen. ;(

anything i can do!?

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

See in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=570811 .

Summary: you need to replace hildon-home package and use newer modified-hildon-desktop package. Even then I am not sure that the GUI method for changing background works. I use gconftool.

Re: More than 4 desktops possible?
 

will this cause ANY Kind of Trouble?slow performance? any ..::cool.? and should this be typed in z terminal ( im quite ignorant on those codes and where they should be? so i could copy and paste it in the terminal?:p...Thanks 4 ur efforts!! :D ,, FEAR GOD and Be GOOD GUYZZ<<we will die and we will be asked wt we did in our lives,, death is ceratINNNN>>

Re: Increase number of desktops? More than four possible?
 

This is not working now..i just try to install it on my n900 and it wouldnt let me anymore i get this error: "Package mmodified-hildon-desktop is not available , but is refferd to by another package. this mean that the package is missing, has been obsolated, or is only available from another source."