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GeneralAntilles
2009-10-08 , 19:22
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In the same spirit as zerojay's
widget proposals
thread I'd like to try to collect ideas for desktop enhancements for Maemo 5. These are things that you think would improve the overall usage experience on Maemo 5 at the desktop level. In other words, status bar applets, changes to the dashboard, enhancements to Hildon Desktop, and general device customization. Let me give you a few of my ideas as examples:
xmodmap control panel
- The 3-row keyboard on the N900 is, unfortunately, missing many characters that make certain activities much easy. I'd like to see some sort of control panel that allows users to bind characters to certain functions on the keyboard (i.e., Ctrl-Fn-V for a pipe, Ctrl-Enter for tab, etc.). Although accessing xmodmap from XTerm is simple enough, modifying keyboard mappings is a fairly involved process that will be over the heads of most users.
ACMonitor
- I'd like to see ACMonitor ported to Fremantle with a nice control panel front-end. This would allow the user to change the various power-saving options based on their current power source. This would make it easy to work around things like the SSH timeout with WiFI PSM by turning PSM off while you're sitting at your desk with the AC plugged in.
So, what enhancements can you think up?
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