[Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Hi everybody

Some may know me, some may not, but I'm a harmattan developer that is working on a lot of stuff, even if I did not write a lot of "serious" apps, but mostly test apps.

But today, I'm here to show you one of my apps: widgets.

It is actually a platform for developers who want to integrate widgets into their Qt / QML application. It provides nearly all the features that a modern widget engine should have.

To do something useful about that platform, I decided to bring widgets to the harmattan lock screen, since quite a lot of you miss Maemo widgets.

http://sfietkonstantin.files.wordpre...2_21-56-05.png

Please help me releasing nice 1.0.X by testing the finale version and post bug reports using http://sourceforge.net/p/libwidgets/bugtracker/. You can also see triaged and resolved bugs at http://sourceforge.net/p/libwidgets/tickets/


More information can be found on my blog. You can also follow me on twitter (@SfietKonstantin)


Current version: 1.0.0 finale
Download it here
Release post on the blog.

I have set an ugly icon as a placeholder. I might choose a better one from what you provide :)


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Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

this seems perfect for the coding competition

please do consider applying

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well, i tried this app long ago and i would like to see it's support for plugins in python too, also, it could replace homescreen for opened devices maybe...
it would really be nice to have replacement...
Sfiet_Konstantin, i made nice concept for homescreen and i think it will not be hard to adjust your app to be exactly as i imagined :)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=85941 << if you are interested :)

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Gotta luuuuurve TMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nice work.Harmattan needs something like this.Lockscreen isn't much functional.

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Interesting. I will consider it :)

Your concept is quite interesting and my widgets system is quite flexible. I will try to see if it is possible to do that.

About support in python, well, I don't know how to bind code well, but you can do something very easy: write a daemon in python, and interact with QML using DBus. All my widgets are QML so it is really easy to write them.

There will be more on API after ...

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does the lpm screen be disabled due to this? Cuz it got disabled on mine...

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looking forward :) really :D
so far i see several issues (statusbar not showing) problem with iClock (day name and month are on russian i think, right?)
maemo dock doesn't showing applications when pressed on menu button
i will checkout qml (yes, i know i had to long ago...) :D
really looking forward for improvements and fixes and future progress of this app :) it will be very interesting to develop widgets. hope apis will be rich :)

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Is lpm the display while N9 screen is off ? Yes it will be disabled, since I cannot support it (now).

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Please remove ALL widgets and docks and restart sysuid
and see if the status bar is still not showing. This is a bug that occurs sometimes and I don't know how to address it.

Please show me a screenshot of iClock as well. And for maemo dock, everything is normal :D I did not give much love to this dock.

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sorry, no, i meant statusbar menu, statusbar is there :D but when clicked on it there's no menu. also, it would be great to have landscape mode :)

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When locked it is normal that status bar menu is not there. While on normal screen, be sure that the status bar menu is here. Otherwise, it means that one of the nastiest bugs I have is still not dead.

No landscape mode is a choice currently because I don't know how to layout widgets easily in landscape. And lockscreen do not support landscape either.

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sorry for scaring you, bug is not here (yet) i will certainly do more tests
now i am looking into widgets to see what i can do :D
well, if so far landscape mode is not needed a lot, but if became replacement for homescreen, then i think it will be nice to have landscape support :)

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Awesome! Great work! Am gonna try it now!

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awesome! very great!!!!
please make it able to rotate the N900 dock menu :)
and also to make it fullscreen (so you wont see the statusbar to make it look like real Maemo5)

Edit:
I needed to incept the package to install this, and yes, there IS landscape on the lockscreen. Since we need to incept it, you can also enable landscape on lockscreen to make it able to rotate :)

There are already apps which can enable this for you, like N9 QTweak. Maybe you can look into that and add this to your great app

Edit2:
Maybe you can add a toggle to enable or disable landscape support :)

Edit3:
(My last edit on this post, I promise :p)
Maemo5 uses seperate ''configurations'' on landscape and portrait mode.
So if you arrange the widgets on Portrait mode, and on landscape. Once done, it wont mess Landscape and Portrait mode anymore.

Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Just tried it and it's seriously awesome! I hope you make more apps like this! Highly recommended and worth the download! + It's free, perfect!

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It might be free, and open-source, but I ask for contribution using flattr. I don't have all my time and funds to work on this project, so it would be nice if the community support me to release more versions of widgets and maintain the whole library ...

Thanks :)

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Granted. But I need time to work on this. Please be patient, thanks !

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Hi This is the best app I have erver seen for Nokia N9 and you are awesome Developer. :)

But, this seems need an improvement.

1. Back light is not getting off when the lock screen is on.
2. When we get a call, Caller id not displaying until we unlock.
3. Better if you icrease the size of the Frame.

Other than first 2, The app is exceptionally good. Kudos.

Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Hello,
What do you mean by backlight is not getting off when the lock screen is on. What device are you using ?

About the caller display, this is normal since I do not support Nokia's bouncing effect (have to reimplement it).

The frame is small currently but in a new version, I'm thinking of having resizable widgets. Stay tuned.

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it would be nice feature to have "new notifications" widget and also, if unlock dock would be slightly more customisable + changing wallpaper :D that would be pretty nice ;) :)

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Notifications widgets is on the work. Not really at the moment. Will have to wait for 1.0.X.

What do you want to customize on slide to unlock ? The purpose of this dock is to mimic apple (and to be sued ? :D) I can write other docks that can be more customizable if you want.

Changing wallpaper can already be done, but will be done in a friendly manner on >= 1.0b2

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If you ask me it would be better to mimic nokia than apple: lose the slide to unlock and make it unlock when swiping from edge. This would be more consistent with harmattan and allow more space for widgets.

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The grey bar will have this purpose. And if you don't like the slide to unlock, don't use it.

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great, looking forward :D that widget

well, i really dislike apple and i don't see anything good in it...:D did you saw unlock screen on belle? i think it's best one so far :) that would be really really awesome :)

yes, i know it can be done :D but not trough official ui...that's what i was referring to :)

i think that lock screen should be separate window from widgets screen and lock screen should be hidden when device gets unlocked :D
also, do you think you can implement running apps list?
also 2, it would be nice if there would be widget like shortcut, but shortcut to execute .sh script so we can write some widgets like flash on/off or something like that based on that initial widget;)

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currently using it like that :D

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well... it's not called iPhone theme for nothing.... Don't select the iPhone theme if you don't like that :)

Maybe he could make a Harmattan theme ?

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I think that I'm gonna make something more KDE-ish, to go with the KDE clock :)

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This is sweet! If it develops enough, I think one could use this to do everything and really seldomly get back to the "real" homescreen :P
One thing though - I don't know if this is only my experience - when I run a preview of the widget canvas, it works rally smoothly, but when I get to the canvas when it actually operates, it seems to shutter and less fast in general - do you know why that might be?

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Caught in the act not reading the release note and FAQ (blog post) !

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Well, yes, you caught me :P I've read your blog post now, and yes, you mention there about the slowness. I would still ask the question though, because this does not explain why it runs so good in the "preview" mode - is there a difference between the "preview" and "normal operation mode" in how the application is handled by the system?

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The preview is a QML app, that is nicely accelerated. The lockscreen is done with MeegoTouch framework, and I stacked a QML over it.

MeegoTouch should be OK performance wise, but actually, it is not, with QML, or with pure MeegoTouch, at least in lock screen.

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this is awesome! just tryed it sooo nice

yes it has some bugs as beta!, no lick screen! desnt go black/LPS

hope to see more widget, customizable features "like number of screens?"

and ill make u an icon :D "if u still want1?"

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Yes, I'm interested by having a nice icon.

But, please be more precise about your bugs please. What is "doesn't go black and no lock screen (or no lick screen ...)"

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Hello everybody,

For bug reports, I have setup a bug tracker on sourceforge, where everybody can post (even anonymous users), but please, for organisation reason, please login when possible.

http://sourceforge.net/p/libwidgets/bugtracker/

All bugs that are tiraged will go to the ticket board, and will hopefully be solved. Please check the ticket board first to see if the bugs are already reported.

http://sourceforge.net/p/libwidgets/tickets/

Thanks in advance :)

Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Why don't you remove the icon?
You can add Widgets within the Device settings, or within the Application settings, like 'Home screen settings' and 'Theme changer' does. Would be nice to have it integrated in the system like that :)

Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Why not ... To be considered.
But I like icons ...

Re: [Announce] Widgets platform -- lockscreen
 

Beta 2 is released (see 1st post)

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Well, you still need the icon for when Installing the app or when removing, or if it ever come to the Store.
Otherwise, adding it to the settings would more suitable for Widgets :)

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I really miss this on my nokia n9. Will this work for me then with pr 1.3?

I would love animated background in the lockscreen and weather widget and some other program links, would be perfect.

Right now I've setteled for placing most apps in folders in app section and using 'home screen settings' waves to make background more pleasant behind the programs, moving.