Okay, I'll jump in and start back on the topic of the betterment of the Maemo GUI by saying that I've been working on a Home applet that would essentially launch web bookmarks, applications, and files from a single, one-touch location. The applet is called quick.launch, and would be customizable by adding and arranging items as the user chooses. Now I'm not an advanced developer by any stretch, and I'm finding it a bit daunting to create such an application at this level. So I'd like to invite any developers that would be interested in collaborating with me to get this and likely other application ideas up and running for these devices quicker than I, or anyone else, could possibly do alone.

Here is the latest screenshot of how the application looks so far. I'm thinking that each "cell" would act as a button and hold various item icons. Each cell would act as the touch controls by snapping to the center cell for display of the item title/name and for launching the item (either from the center cell button or from the select key on the d-pad).

For example, if you were to press the far left cell/button, the items would shift right four places while displaying the selected item in the center cell. At which point you could launch that item or continue navigating via the other cells/buttons.

I'm available via Gmail if anyone is interested.
- Derek Coleman