[Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Hi!
I'd like to announce the release of Oculo, a homescreen widget capable of bringing any web content into your home. Not only full web pages: you are usually not interested in advertisment and menu bars, right? So, Oculo allows you to pick specific parts of the web page.
I wrote a blog post about it, with more details and an explanatory video on how to configure it.

http://www.mardy.it/archivos/imagines/oculo.png
In this screenshot, there's the Flickr! featured image, Google local news, and Yahoo finance.

Note: for some reasons, homescreen widgets written in Qt are not visible if you are running the community SSU; it's a known problem, and I'm trying to investigate it.

Oculo is currently in the extras-testing repository.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

i have installed the app but the content of the homescreen remain invisiable....the web content remain blank.... yes i have installed CSSU...is this the probs or something else....may be in next update it will be resolve

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Thanks for this. I have tried to achieve something like this for a long time. My approach has been with queen beecon windgets, but only with text. Full website rendering is superb. Sadly I am running also running CSSU, but I don't mind to wait, if you find the problem.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

This looks interesting and I'll try it as soon as the CSSU problem is solved.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

@Mardy,

Nice application it works just fine.

A couple of ideas

1. is there a way that the icon could be set as a small icon when inactive and once pressed the program becomes active and opens up to the users customised size?

2. also this would be great if it could be incorporated with Vlad Vasiliev and Tanya Makova's live wallpaper application. Football scores updated in the background of your main home screen and full screen would be great.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Changing graphicssystem to native should work for CSSU.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Oculo 0.8 is on its way to the extras-testing repository (it might be already there, by the time you read this), with the following changes:

• Interval between updates is now configurable
• Works with the Community SSU
• Bugfix: remember the selected area when reconfiguring

Please test, and remember to vote for its inclusions into extras, if it behaves well.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Sweet Widget! Great Idea!

Some ideas:

1) Is it possible to support websites that require login?
2) Possibility to change/disable update interval when tapping the widget
3) Would it be possible to allow scrolling within the widget?

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Great widget mardy. One thing I would say is that when you are trying to get a widget to the desired size, each time you go back into settings, I find that the sliders have reverted to default ( or sometimes somewhere completly different). Can you make the widget remember the last size it was set too - therefore making it easier to get to correct size. It's not a big problem, but would be nice. Thanks for your great work.

Re: [Announce] Oculo: web content to your home screen!
 

Thank you, Mardy, this is a very useful widget and is very easy to setup.

In the attached image you can see a problem: my text-based widget (taken from google results of "1 chf in eur") has black text on dark grey background and is hardly readable. The img widget instead (taken form foreca) is perfect.

Can I also suggest that image scaling is made with some other algorythm which preserves quality? You could use imagemagick as a dependency or use some other lib.
Thank you, again :)