Origami Experience 2.0 was launched for Windows Vista UMPCs last week. This led to the painful experience of putting Vista back on the Q1 Ultra and giving it a try. While it is not impressive enough to keep Vista on that little machine, it does serve as a point of inspiration.
The maemo home screen comes with a handful of applets. Other than the RSS reader, none serve as constant information displays like the OE home screen. This is a potential missed opportunity for developers. While many Internet Tablet owners ARE on the go, it is safe to say that many also spend a good deal of time in front of a computer. Having the Internet Tablet as an auxiliary display for "at-a-glance" information would be nice.If you want to know more about OE 2.0, take a look at JKK Mobile's video overview.
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My home screen on my N810 is actually filled with at-a-glance information. I have the RSS reader, Speed Contacts (to see who's online and for quick IMing), OMWeather (third-party) and Clock.
I agree that Maemo could use more widgets though. I'd like to see some location based widgets especially. And I'm sure there are a lot of people who would love Facebok, Twitter, etc. widgets.
I think that widgets is one thing the iPhone really missed out on. Android seems to have a really good balance with the option of widgets and launchers and multiple "desktops".
I'd love to see a small weather radar map on the home screen, that would be handy.
Well, and that is the reason why i started www.mojocafe.net about a year ago - to bring full screen widgets to my n800.
And at the moment i am working on v2.0 and that will be a smashing mashup of what i have developed so far.
Mine home screen is actually filled with :
- mCalendar Home Applet
- HomeIP
- HomeDiskFree
- HomeNetStats
- omweather
Create home applet for maemo is really easy. If you want some help to create one, don't hesitate to contact me.
And i ll not create facebook, myspace,twitter,other 'pseudo' social www thing widget as i don't use this thing.
The problem with the current maemo 'widgets' is that they have to be made the same way as any other maemo program. Maemo needs to support simple html/css/js widgets which would be more like the various other widget platforms and a lot easier to create.
The Web Runtime widget platform from s60 is meant to be coming to maemo, so hopefully that will improve the situation.
i hope supporting dhtml widget things will not be the solution.
As parsing and executing dhtml is slow on such low cpu frequency device.
Take a look at how ressource it use on vista or osx.
Greetings Dan:
This may be offtopic, but I would like to know if a new firmware for the Nokia N800 will be available soon.
Regards Robert
@Benoit: I have a few ideas for widgets for Maemo if you are really interested in developing a few. We should chat :)
@The issue for widgets isn't so much widgets, but what should they be. I think that 'applets' should be done for system notification things like mail, system status and connectivity. The default ones need to be cleaned up in terms of UX/UI and the Tablet UI talks about this in a few posts.
In terms of connected widgets, I would want to say that the browser engine on the IT should be able to handle these, but the fact is that the engine is not really of the quality to do widgets in a manner that isn't resource killing. The browser engine needs a considerable update (not happening even with Diablo) and therefore any connected widgets that use it are just a weight on the system.
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