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Originally Posted by ajalkane View Post
Why, scripts are cool ? But seriously, maybe it is not so uncommon, and I'll certainly keep tab on how much it is requested.

The reasons I'm not immediately including it are (but may eventually):
- It can be easily scripted
- The actions listing has already grown too big. It's overwhelming, and the UI needs refactoring. Until I've had time to do that refactoring, I'm wary of adding new actions that can be done with simple scripting.
- Each new feature grows ProfileMatic a bit. As it's always running in background, each feature takes a bit more memory from the device.
- There's still much work. I feel I should prioritize stuff that can not be scripted.

Anyway, I understand writing scripts to a cell phone is quite annoying. So I added to ProfileMatic's homepage QR codes for the scripts so that you can easily scan with MeeScan and paste them to ProfileMatic. See them here:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/~ks2877/profilematic/

And if you come with your own useful scripts, please do post them in this thread. I'll add them to the homepage when applicable.
I understand your point but let me "add some more arguments on the scale" :-)

Meego/Harmattan really lacks a proper background connection management and I think this is a rather central issue. I'm either forced to allow background connections on (battery doesn't last too long) or doing everything manually as I can't specify which connections can be used for "Always on". Maybe I just want to enable background connections when i'm out of house? maybe I also want to use background connections only at home when my WifI is within range...

Of course solving this by scripts is a valid option and I have no problem doing this. But I'm also in the situation where my girl friend also has a N9 and I find it hard for her and other "average" people if you need to use scripts/console/etc to solve the most basic things with your telephone. Also "Extra plugins" dissapeared from the store. This means yet another absolutely required tool being only available under circumstances...

I would love to see functios as toggling the BG connection in the firmware - but as this probably won't happen your tool remains one of the left alternatives to solve this problem...and I would love to see this being doable in a UI and not with a script....

:-) Thanks a lot and I would really appreciate if you consider my arguments when redesigning the UI of your App.
 

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