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2010-03-29 , 06:15
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#52
Originally Posted by zlatko View Post
First of all -thank you omeriko9 for putting your time and effort into this app!
Second I want to share few ideas for improvement:

1. Add vibration
2. Add configurable time period for sound/vibra notifications
3. If you have hard time developing GUI - why don't you use a simple config file that users can edit? With clear options like "enabled=YES", "sound=NO", "sound_file=/usr/home/MyDocs/...", etc. Yes GUI is nicer, but takes more work.

Any way this can turn into "must have" app for N900!
@zaltko, thank you for your notes!
I will add vibration notifications as well, that's a good idea. If someone afraid of his battery life, they can turn it off.

I definitely want a editable configuration file, but that IMO must come with a GUI, for two reasons:
1. This app started as a small script for my private use, I didn't thought about configuration (everything can be configured from code, right? ), and now I'm working on making the app configurable - a GUI is the easier part
2. I believe that this kind of app needs to be accessible to as many users as possible. Although I (and you?) do believe that manipulating an XML file is not a hard task, I think there are a lot of users here that would disagree. This app has functionalities that relevant to a large target audience and that's why I think GUI here is inevitable.
 

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