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	Karel Jansens	2006-12-09 , 16:00
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Originally Posted by shrimp_was_disabled2

Just to stirr up some discussion (not to whine about the current application offerings) what would your application wishlist look like?

Here's some apps that I think would be useful:

1. An application launcher, maybe an applet at Home, just something that I can easily launch apps from. Right now, I have to use the stylus to access the menu to open an app

2. Apps that take advantage of the large touchscreen. Such as horizon and canola.

I don't want it to look like I'm complaining. I love my 770, and the applications people make for it (for free!)

Previously, whenever someone mentioned "wishlist" and "770" in the same sentence, I'd be there with just the one war cry: "Abiword!!!"

Recently however, I've done some re-thinking, mostly in view of how I actually use my Abiword-less NokiLLO these days, and I've come to the conclusion that I really don't need a full-fledged word processor. After all, as long as I can't print from NokiLLO, or even tranparently use any networked printer in the vicinity, there really is no point in having a WYSIWYG beast on board.

I've discovered that I can do quite a lot with Leafpad, arguably the simplest possible editor ever. It is very light though and missing quite a few useful features (word count, elaborate search-and-replace funtions and more...), so its usefullness is somewhat hampered. Sure, I could use vim -- but I don't want to

, so here's my wishlist. It's a short one:

1. A good writer's editor and
2. an easy to use flat-file database (the best one is still the old Psion 3x's "Data"!).

So there.

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