Idea.

What would you think about having an ASUI feature that toggles off and on the status bar on the desktop?

I've mentioned this before.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52562

If there was a way to save the status bar settings file, and then completely remove it from the desktop, you could also restore those settings and bring the status bar back.

Would this then give us a full 800x480 desktop on all applications?

To be honest, I really don't use the status bar 99% of the time when I'm on my tablet.

I think you need to do a killall hildon-desktop for the changes to take place though which takes like 15 seconds.

If you remove the Home and Statusbar portions in this file
home/user/.osso/hildon-desktop/desktop.conf
and restarted the desktop, would the tablet still continue to work?

I'm a little chicken to do this myself. *lol*

Use ASUI to stop the desktop service, modify the file via SSH and then use ASUI to restart the service. If you're able to start apps after stopping the desktop then you don't need SSH (Telescope can still launch apps). Only problem is that apps also get stopped when you stop the desktop service.

You can also use SSH to run that command which launches the desktop and allows you to see its output on the console. This becomes very useful to figure out why the desktop won't start when you're testing stuff.

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And no, ASUI won't have a feature to mutilate your desktop file. It already has a functional feature to hide the statusbar, just press the fullscreen button when ASUI isn't showing.

I completely agree with you Auounymous.

I actually like the way Maemo set up the desktop environment.

But you know, it's always nice to think of possible changes.

I believe some time back ago, someone was wanting or maybe even trying to write an app where every program would automatically launch in full screen mode.

Do you know if anything became of this or if it's even possible?

One more idea. Feel free to shoot it down though.

How about something like a font theme manager to give the overall appearance an extra flair to the desktop and web browsers?

Kind of like this.
http://blog.adl.pl/maemo-changing-de...ystem-fonts/72

Would this be too much to ask for Auounymous?

This is something asui-settings could handle. Simplest method would be three input fields where you type in the font family you want. This is something you would need to know about the fonts you uploaded to the device. Would be better if you could tell me how to extract the style and font family from a TTF file so asui-settings could scan /use/share/fonts and /home/user/.fonts and display a drop-down of installed font families for each style.

I don't think it would be all that great if you need to do a full reboot each time for the changes to take place like that sites suggests you have to do.

It doesn't seem like it would be worth such a constant hassle.

Whenever I add a new font, in Xterm I do

root
fc-cache -fv
/etc/init.d/maemo-launcher force-reload

From there any new font is immediately available to be selected in Xterm.

So would a reboot be required for this?

Not if that updates the font in all applications and the desktop. Just google around for code to read style and font family from TTF files so it can display installed fonts. Otherwise it is just a GUI to access that file and not accessible to anyone who doesn't know the font family of the TTF they installed.

The easiest way would probably be to parse the output of fc-list (comes pre-installed on device).

Today I have one request for consideration: a button to launch an xterm from ASUI (I had configured a menu entry in old SystemUI for that). For times when the desktop fails to boot.