I have just finished my first application for Fremantle - Countdown Home Widget! Nokia has made many of my popular applets unnecessary in Fremantle, but I will try to come up with some other good ones too.

You can probably tell this is a desktop widget that allows users to keep track of upcoming events. It differs from the agenda widget by allowing you to easily tell at a glance how much time is left until each event.

It is easy to configure (although more options will be available in future releases) and tries to fit in with the other desktop widgets.

Version 0.5-1 is being built in extras-devel as I type, and I will push it to extras-testing when it is ready. Version 0.4-x are also in extras-devel, but don't look nearly so nice

Please let me know any improvement ideas or feedback. The glitches visible in the first screenshot are caused by running in the SDK in scratchbox.

Edit Version 0.5-2 is now in extras-devel. Changes include: Better titles for add and edit, ability to reorder events, slightly smaller text for date compared to title, emphasize button area. Screenshots have been updated.

Edit I just uploaded 0.5-3 to the autobuilder. Changes include: Add some default text when there are no events, use "SecondaryTextColor" to further distinguish date, ellipsize long labels, small fix to position changing. Screenshots updated.

Edit Versions 0.5-4 and 0.5-5 have been build. These respectively add full customization and a reorganized settings dialog. Customizations include font colour and style for the titles and value, background colour and opacity for the content area and button area, and corner radius.

Edit Version 0.5-6 is out with a couple fixes. The default background is now more opaque, which helps on light backgrounds. Also, a position selector is no longer shown if there is only one entry. Thanks to Andre for pointing out both issues.

Edit Version 0.5-7 adds quite a few things. First, better default colours based on the theme. Each event can be marked for deletion once the event has passed. At a global level, you can rename "years", 'weeks", "days", "hours", "minutes", "left", and "ago". This can be a different language, short forms, whatever you want.

Edit Version 0.5-8, hopefully on its way to extras (needs more testing karma). This version has finger-friendly color and font selectors, GUI design more fitting to Hildon HIG, sort by date, bug fixes and more. Please try it out.

Edit After a good long run in extras-testing, countdown-home has been updated to 0.5-9. This fixes an issue with editing events when sorted by date, and makes the name in the app manager prettier.

Edit Version 0.5-9 is now in extras! Thanks to everyone for testing and commenting.

Edit Version 0.7-2 is now in extras-devel. This adds the custom background settings back into the options dialog. As of version 0.7 the "system" background uses the RSS applet graphics for close system integration.

Edit Version 0.7-3 is in extras-devel. When using a custom background you can now select the widget size. Between 1 and 5 items can be displayed at a time. An excellent space saver.