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I'm a relatively new N810 user, and no experience with development since Visual Basic many years ago. I'm wondering if anyone has developed a Maemo App Launcher that would allow customizing the launch as to orientation, magnification, etc? I find that web apps like Gmail Mobile, Calendar, Twitter, Evernote, etc. each have their own "best" presentation criteria, and setting them each time they are launched is a tedious and time consuming task. If the parameters could be set once so the app would launch that way every time, it would be great.
Anybody done this yet?
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personal launcher. look for it in app manager.

I think he's talking about the browser remembering zoom (etc.) settings for different websites/webapps.

That's correct Pelago. I installed the "Personal Launcher" and figured out how to add the applications from the right side of the setup. This gives me "Windows Style" desktop icons, but I don't see how to make it remember the Zoom Level and/or Orientation (Portrait or Landscape). Maybe there's a script or command entry that can do this???

I think it will depend on which web browser you use.

Personally, what I'd like to see is the browser (e.g. Tear) automatically remember zoom settings per website, without having to make any explicit settings. That way, whatever method you use to access the website (e.g. bookmark, following a link, typing in the URL) will automatically zoom to the same amount you used last time. Firefox 3 does this.

I'm just using the Mozilla browser that comes with Maemo, but I agree that if the browser could remember the preferences for a given site that would be great. Something like a Greasemonkey script that is used with FireFox for many of the plugin apps. FireFox is Mozilla related, but I don't know if there is such a thing as Greasemonkey for the Maemo browser. I'm really surprised no one has done something like this. Just about every site has it best appearance in come combination of orientation and zoom level. Mobile apps especially are greatly improved this way,... but what a pain to set it all up each time they are launched.