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How about unistallation?
I cant find anything..

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well. it's very complicated process. you should open settings, go to applications and open applications management menu (it's the most complicated). then you should ask your friend to find cyclotron in huge list of installed application (alone you will spend about 10 hours, just ask friends to find it in about 1 hour), then click on it and find Uninstall button. It hides sometimes, just ask button to appear. remember - N9 is SMART phone, so it watching and listening you all the time. Good luck and be careful!

apt-get remove cyclotron

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Hahhaa! This made my day

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Threads with no full installation-uninstallation guides
Apps that can f*ck your phone if you install them together
No serious backup tool like ios & android

Sorry but i would like to ask first, shoot later
Anyway, thanks for your time boy :)

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Well, I think backupping Harmattan is EASIER than iOS or Android... maye it depends on what and how you want to backup?

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Coderus :p you may know that but there are people who are unaware and we shoud be responsible to some extent to make em aware:)
btw
u the coderus from symbian sence na??
Thats question killing me:(
if yes a tight hug in advance:D

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All the shortcuts had a green icon until I opened the .desktop and found out the .png has to be copied to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/80x80/apps/

Thanks. This package is great and the "Next" and "Previous" scripts allow me to use MyMoves to switch without using the volume buttons.

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Like this hack very much, really makes using N9 that much more awesome. However, I have a question - if I remember correctly - in one of the early versions, the cycling area was at the bottom of the screen and a line was displayed. I actually think that area was better - not necessarily with that line visible, cause now, every now and then instead of cycling it opens top menu or sometimes freezes for a few seconds. Would it be possible to add a toggle option somewhere to choose between old and new cycling area?

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As far as I know, there was never a Cyclotron (at least from me) with a cycling area at the bottom. The status bar as cycling area has been chosen because it makes it easy to integrate into existing apps (libmeegotouch / Qt Components take care of handling events on that area).

In other words: All applications are really full-screen on MeeGo Harmattan, and the toolkit (libmeegotouch for most built-in applications and Qt Quick Components for some built-in applications and most third party apps) is used to display the status bar inside that fullscreen window. The toolkit is also responsible for handling touch events on the area, and that's where Cyclotron hooks in and adds the swipe left/right gesture handling (see the patches on the Cyclotron website for how simple / naive this really is implemented) - we can't really do that with the bottom area that easily.

Of course, one option would definitely be to implement this in the compositor (mcompositor, i.e. the application that manages all the windows), but the "Swipe" plugin to the compositor (that handles all swipe gestures for the window starting from the screen edges) is closed source, and as far as I know, the most recent versions (as shipped with PR1.3) of it don't include the necessary hooks anymore (that e.g. SwipeManager used; and even there only the pre-defined actions could be defined, no external command/D-Bus signal).

If the Swipe plugin was open, I could imagine a Cyclotron where you could swipe left and right to directly go between applications (see this video @ 02:35 for how this works on a Blackberry Playbook).

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thp Thanks for this great app,i know you've answered it already :
" In other words: All applications are really full-screen on MeeGo Harmattan, and the toolkit (libmeegotouch for most built-in applications and Qt Quick Components for some built-in applications and most third party apps) is used to display the status bar inside that fullscreen window. "
But what about those that they don't display status bar such as : documents,notes etc...? They just don't work with this mod?
Also it doesn't work for me with ''Settings'' anyone else have this problem?
Thanks.

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Yes, they don't, as we hook into the code that handles touches on the status bar in the toolkit.

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Ok, thanks for your answer :)

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Hi @thp!

This is a wonderful advancement to the already smooth gesture base of N9! Thank @qwazix and ye for the idea and implementation respectively!

Given that Coderus aegis-install hack has mostly replaced the need for Inception, can u pl provide me absolute steps to install this with coderus aegis-install as opposed to Inception?

TIA,
Cheers 'n beers,
JoEy

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Instructions are here: http://o.thp.io/tmp/cyclotron-statusbar/

If that is too complicated, you should probably not try it out - you'll probably risk a reflash or bricking your device.

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No, it isn't complicated, but it's a different method: Instructions there are with the use of Inception. As mentioned previously though, I have Coderus Aegis as opposed to Inception (which now seems obsolete); and I seek instructions to install "Status Bar Integration for Cyclotron" with Coderus aegis-install method.

Surely, the old timers might understand but if we could, as a community, be a little more amiable towards newbies that are actually trying to learn the nuances, N9 could get more love and attention.

But every thread that I visit and try to learn something new, I seem to be greeted with this snobbish approach that is so discouraging. I love the N9 and Meego as much as ye developers, which is why I shifted from top-end androids to N9; but I'm from a different line of education and do not have prior knowledge in linux/ development. But that should not be a reason why I sholud not enjoy the beauty of Open Source development. I may not be able to code but I surely can contribute with ideas and testing of development. But hardly see any warmth in this community :| :| :mad:

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Hello StygiAn TrepidAtioN

The TMO community in one of the nicest and warmest I personally have encountered and I am sure there were only a glitch in communication and no harm were meant. If you feel that THP's approach is a bit too demanding, maybe you could try out Schturmans N9QuickTweak app? He has integrated many, many really nice tweaks to one app that is quite easy to use. Cyclotron is also available there. Just remember the read instructions CAREFULLY ON THE FIRST PAGE!

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ght=quicktweak

THP probably only wanted to raise caution, as Cyclotron in in its nature a tweak that could cause your device go so haywire that you would need to flash it. No problem and instructions can be found here in the forum quite extensively, but there are several steps that might seem dangerous ;)

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there is some nice project which takes advantage of the Swipe todisplays a listview when swiping from the left side to right, but it can also change any swipe,

isnt it possible to hook the every app the same way?

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If someone posts instructions for using aegis-install and posts it here or somewhere, I could integrate it into that webpage so other users can find it. I don't really have time to investigate what aegis-install is and how it works (it would probably only take an hour or two, but I'd rather spend that time answering questions on forums and maybe pushing forward some apps).

Reading http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90750, it might be enough to just skip step 7 and 8 of http://o.thp.io/tmp/cyclotron-statusbar/ and use "aegis-dpkg -i" instead of /usr/sbin/incept in steps 9, 10 and 11 - but I didn't test this, so don't blame me if it doesn't work / breaks your device / steals your cat. Make backups first, and make sure you have the necessary firmware and flasher files to make sure you can reflash and restore the backup.

That wasn't meant to be harsh. Just a quick / short reminder that installing Cyclotron if done wrong might require you to do a reflash, or that uninstaling it and reinstalling the stock packages might not be that easy. In other words, it's not made "easy to install" on purpose to not cause problems down the road. If I wanted to make this easy to install, I'd have to invest some more time to make it easy to uninstall and make installation easier (probably automating as much steps as possible).

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Correct. Just replace any
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It seems file links are dead. I found them on a Chinese site and threw into my Google Drive. I checked the performance, it’s simple enough to install through DPKG and reboot. You can download them from this link.
Sorry for bad english.