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2007-12-22 , 18:48
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Originally Posted by cypherbios View Post
* Integrate it with the home screen (as you mentioned). You can make a desktop plugin with iTablet embedeed, I believe it is not hard to do. You can get an idea of how to do it here http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HildonDesktopPluginHowto and http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2007/0...ildon-desktop/
I agree it would be ideal to have iTablet as a resizable applet. That way you could have iTablet take up the whole screen, or share space with other applets. Of course you'd want to edit desktop.conf to eliminate the existing task navigator. But as Aisu mentioned, unfortunately Maemo doesn't support Python applets.

Originally Posted by cypherbios View Post
* Do not make the app show in fullscreen (this is a pre-requisite for the home screen I guess)
It should have the option of running full-screen, and I think many people would use it this way. I love that it launches apps in full-screen mode.

Originally Posted by cypherbios View Post
* I don't known how the actual iTablet launchers work today, but it should work with .desktop files, following the specification of freedesktop.org (http://standards.freedesktop.org/des...est/apa.html);
I think this is the link you meant to use:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/des...atest/apa.html

Originally Posted by cypherbios View Post
* As user interaction method, I suggest the following:
- One tap lanch the application;
- double-tap edit the launcher;
- drag-and-drop move the launcher;
- some sort of scrool (not a gtk scrollbar) to roll trough the launchers when there is not enough room for all of them;
I like the idea of having finger-scrolling, but I wonder if it would just be easier to have a separately-launched application for editing the iTablet layout.

Originally Posted by cypherbios View Post
Take a look at this images/mockups to have an idea of what I'm talking about

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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/UserInterface
Very cool. I like just about everything I see, but the Hildon Panel looks pretty useless. Would it be possible to get rid of it? It does not look finger-friendly, and it takes up space. It would be better to replace it with regular desktop applets. If you really like it, you could create an applet that looks just like the Hildon panel.

To be able to select from all possible applications, (basically replace the application menu), I think there should be a separate full-screen application that allows you to browse all applications. People could write their own applications to do this in whatever ways seem best.
This application could be launched by the physical button that launches the application menu now.