Re: [Announce] QtLockscreen: highly configurable lockscreen replacement
 

Update on my lockscreen to work with the latest update of this software

ini file:
http://www.atox-d.com/testGround/tem...lockconfig.txt

Portrait mode:
http://www.atox-d.com/testGround/tem...725-021822.png

Landscape mode:
http://www.atox-d.com/testGround/tem...725-021537.png

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AWESOME! It works :)

@sakya When you view a lokscreen in Landscape, then try and rotate to Portrait, it appears all jumbled up, just a quick bug report :)

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I like your background image... can you share it? ..:)

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I hope that mine (and few others users, who I thanked) posts about extraordinary high (for such a app) memory usage, won't be lost in 4 pages of design talk ;) Maybe posts about problems and design should be put in separate threads?

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there you go buddy

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Yes. I use it only in landscape mode but here you go:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5361213/locktausta_vaaka.png

I use that in my portrait mode:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5361213/locktausta_pysty.png

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have portrait?

Re: [Announce] QtLockscreen: highly configurable lockscreen replacement
 

both landscape and portrait

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Hi Sakya
Can you tell me where is located all icons of the qtlockscreen (media player buttons, battery etc...)? The full path ?
Thanks

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Im not getting the background shown properly.

I've set the bacground to 800x480 and 480x800 but it is placed weirdly.

What am I doing wrong ?

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unfortunatley i have removed qtlockscreen because of being rescource heavy. which is a shame because it's great, but since removing my device is back to it's normal self. i was using a lockscreen that had thumbnail of album art which showed in top even though it didn't actually show in the lockscreen. i could use a lite lockscreen like one i've just seen.

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Does anyone know if it's possible to have fonts with different size in portrait and landscape?

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everything to fine
just want a bigger battery icon only

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@Estel, corduroysack, etc.

I haven't (yet) tested QtLockscreen, but I know that the Qt libraries take quite a bit of RAM, which is shared amongst the running Qt applications.

Check also here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57337

You could try checking used RAM (e.g. with free) before and after running this app just to make sure. Result will most likely depend on whether you are running other Qt apps.

If you do test this, please report your findings. I might install QtLockscreen as well, but since I don't quite see the use of it (I usually unlock if I want to see what's going on), I'm not sure I will :)

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just updated to 0.14
any changelog?

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http://maemo.org/packages/view/qtlockscreen/

"0.1.4 * Added german translation (NightShift79)
* The default config file is always copied to /home/user/.config/sakya/QtLockscreen.ini.default
* Added postrm script
* Fixed metadata update"

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Why not update your own to the one seen or delete the media player controls etc all together and see if that resolves the issue?

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did anyone achieve a different size of albumart in landscape/portrait view?

i tried it with a second albumart widget with defined SizeL="0;0" but this also affects the size in portrait view like normal widget... WHY?? :(

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Yeah, I'm trying that too but there seems to be a bug. You can set the two different sizes, but it will only load the size for the thing you are currently at.

Right now I have a big album art for portrait and smaller for landscape. If I am at landscape and a new song comes up, the album is loaded with the small size. I flip to portrait and it stays with the small size so there's a gap. Now if a new song comes then it loads the big size, so if I flip back to landscape it gets clipped. The widget should load both sizes automatically and display appropriately.

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The problem with album art is:
-When the album art is loaded it is scaled to fit the size you set in the settings (keeping aspect ratio).
-When you change from portrait or landscape it's too late: the image has been scaled. :)

I'll fix this...

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Wow sakya, you are doing such great work. I think QtLockscreen is actually going to replace my music player! :D

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hey sakya , upgrading to latest version does not change my .ini file :(
it stays on the previous version .
what should i do ?

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The updated version's .ini file is now called QtLockscreen.ini.default so if you want to use it just remove the .default at the end.

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The updates never overwrite the configuration file (do you want your lockscreen to reset to the default every time you update?).
The default configuration file is always copied to /home/user/.config/sakya/QtLockscreen.ini.default (so you can check if there are new instructions in the comment or so)

Re: [Announce] QtLockscreen: highly configurable lockscreen replacement
 

already done, just testing now to see what impact it's having. it's impoved a lot by just cutting album art. :)

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Thanks for this great app. Instead of the N900's default mechanism where the screen goes off after a specified timeout, is there an option where the screen can just dim instead and show the lockscreen? Something like what the htc hd2 and other models do? Is there perhaps some command to do it? If there isn't , is there a possibility of having this feature in qtlockscreen? At the risk of possibly higher battery drain, I would much rather see the lockscreen than have my screen go off after a while.

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can some one please help us all with a step by step procedure to install this amazing thing..

also is a GUI based version coming any soon ?

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not sure about the GUI .
and to install , simple use the app manager , it's in devel .

and to edit your lockscreen go to
/home/user/.config/sakya/

here you will see two files edit Qtlockscreen.ini

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the DateTime widgets doesn't work for me, it seems to show the system clock which is 24hrs

it shows " 14:32
Monday 25/07/2011"

instead of what you posted

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The documentation for the format is here:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qdatetime.html#toString

I think he made three datetime widgets:
-one for the time with format "hh:mm"
-one for the "AM/PM" with format "A"
-one for the date

From the documentation "hh:mm" will be 24H, because it's not followed by "A" or "a".
I'll fix this adding an explicit settings to set HH24 or AMPM. ;)

EDIT:
looking at the ini it should work for the time:

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@sakya....
may i suggest you saperate time & date as a standalone widget??
it will be much better if we have two different widget for date & time as default (not by editing/adding) by our self....

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You're right, but there's no real need to separate it (making "invalid" all the ini posted), just use the one there is now as deviantv1ral did, it's almost the same thing.

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I made 3 widgets,

- One for time: "hh:mm A", aligned to center and then cut the size down to where AM/ PM was not visdible.

- Then another widget was created just to display AM/ PM.

- A separate date widget to display date as "dddd, dd-mm-yyyy"

Re: [Announce] QtLockscreen: highly configurable lockscreen replacement
 

This is how I would like QtLockscreen to work:

since most users (including me) use the N900 to phone and listen to music, I would love it to be able to do that through QtLockscreen. Access the phone and open my media collection, while N900 itself is locked with a password. So I don't have to fear when handing my N900 to someone and behind my back he messes up my N900.

Is this possible?????

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Well, i personaly didn't understand you. and secondly this app isn't a trash bin, where you can throw everything in, sorry if it sounds to mean...

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Seems to get nice! Some cool features would be:
-weather forecast
-signal strength
-bluetooth/wlan status
-calendar/alarms sneak
also QBW-support would be a killer-feature...

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Yes
Weather forecast isn't probably that hard to do, especially after we have it used through QBW or as stated in my signature, and i believe Sakya is working on the signals strength including wlan.
BUT QBW isn't written in QML, is it?
Therefore i suppose it'll be hard to create a QBW "widget"

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Can someone tell me where is located all icons of the qtlockscreen (media player buttons, battery, email, call etc...)? The full path ?

And another question, if that possable to change the "1 unread messages" to "1 unread SMS" or "1 new sms", I need something short...
Thanks

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Hi

the icons are in a resource file, idem for the translation files sorry.
If you want them download in the repos: http://www.assembla.com/code/qtlocks...s/trunk/images

@Sakya, you could add in the config file, in the main, a path to qtLockscreen_xx_XX.qm ? It's so easy to create with qtLinguist (both linux and windows)

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Yes, it's in my todo-list to totally remove the resource file and put all the files somewhere (maybe /opt/qtlockscreen is a good place).
Here (maybe) in the future one can put more than one layout and then select the one to use with a gui.