Re: Nokia OS2008 port

Thanks for your inputs, i will address comments below :
Really, we should notice when a window is maximised, and don't cache the maximised size, so that the next-session behaviour conforms to the way it works when the window is minimised. Such change also supports bullet-proof toggling of full-screen window. Then it's no big deal to add an action such as described. I'll put these things into TODO for next release.
Certainly. I do realize that true fullscreen (no title bar; no minimize/maximize/etc buttons) is not particularly useful to desktop users though. That is why i expected this to be maemo specific hack. I should also add that even if emelfm2 caches the maximized size on exit, when emelfm2 is next launched (on maemo) you can 'attempt' to set it to any resolution you want... maemo will force it to fit into client area so this is not a concern for me and would not affect current behavior.
Well, treeviews are as wide as they need to be, having regard to the content, and column-titles, and any change of column-width by the user or code. Gtk apparently defaults to auto-sizing of columns, and e2 doesn't intervene, in config dialogs, anyway. I must say that dual horizontal scrollbars (one for treeview, the other for related buttons) are unpleasant, I guess that those 2 bars are what you mean by "scrolling within scrolling". I've never been affected enough to bother about a more glamorous way of dealing with the situation.
Yes i meant that the (inner) treeview scrollbars are not always visible within the content pane and when they are visible i see only part of them since they are so wide/tall... so i have to scroll content page to find scroll bar and then scroll treeview which is partially obscured. Removing one dimension would help alot so i would think if the treeview height could be enforced (via hack?) to maintain a treeview of around 360px or 8 rows then i can mostly use just two scrollbars when dealing with the treeview... any suggestions on how to force this? Forcing horizontal has more implications with alignments and honestly with 800 pixels i can resize the width of content pane to fit most of the width (minus space used by both vertical scrollbars). If you are interested, and prefer more elegant solution, let me know... otherwise i will pursue maemo-hack approach. 


The context menu does not always display correctly.
Gtk is supposed to "push in" a menu, such that it's all visible as close as possible to the intended position. It seems to me that this is inside maemo. Vanilla gtk has no API for scrolling menus, and I don't know how a maemo menu gets to have such capabilities, or about the algorithm for populating a scrolled menu. From past dealings with re-positioning of filelist vertical adjustment, I recall it can be a bit tricky to get a view filled "properly".
I'm sure you are right. I am currently forcing the top of menu as high as possible so it only mildly affects program use... perhaps future OS upgrade will resolve this.
BTW, I peeked at your website, and have a small suggestion. There's mention of a button for "sort by". Unless you've added some capability, and this button is not doing its default thing, then it would be better somehow described as related to limiting/filtering of displayed items. There's no sorting involved.
Thanks, i will update that screenshot since i did not change the behavior of that button... in fact all icons behave identically to what you intended now.
In case your interested, the program has pretty good 'feel' on this consumer electronics device. There are three hardware buttons on top of device, fullscreen, zoom in, and zoom out and i have mapped zoomin/zoomout to left pane and right pane. There is dpad which simulates arrow keys and dpad-enter for enter and another menu button i have mapped to context menu. This is common to both n800/n810 (which has additional keyboard). So with one hand one can essentially navigate the filesystem and perform certain simple operations without stylus. Its also much smoother/faster than the swf demo appears (if you saw it).
And finally (just because i would want to know if i were you) I have upgraded to your 0.4 source release and since releasing new version in last 2 days 150 unique users have downloaded the upgrade. The previous build i did (of your last 0.3.6 release) had total 1354 downloads over a month (my estimate of 500 assumes reinstalls and reflashing os, i really have no idea how many devices that equates to). There are however 15,700 registered users on internettablettalk.com though so this could grow alot and/or actually lean more towards the 1k mark. 


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