[Req] Panel Ideas!!

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The basis for this thread is pretty simple.

Let’s create a list of ideas that could possibly be turned into xperia panels.

I figured that since the xda forums are pretty much the first place you would go for to get info it would also be a good starting point to initialise ideas for panels.

Turboguard mentioned some already.

Originally Posted by Turboguard

like a Youtube panel, facebook panel etc.

The YouTube panel for example could be the "YouTube DeskTop Version software" integrated into a xml panel with an ability to choose other popular streams.


My suggestion would be a panel that allows you to remotely control winamp or wmp through bluetooh. There are tons of applications out there that do the job already but it would be awesome to have an acctual dedicated panel for it with maybe 4 big buttons and some track information.
I used to use a program called ControlFreak on my symbian that pretty much turned my phone into a remote control.. I wouldn’t mind having the same type of feel for winmo.

Maybe there will be coders out there who might be interested in turning the top suggestions from this topic into actual panels.

So fire away with your suggestions guys!!! ))

1 A ps3 bluetooth remote panel.
2 A blank panel similar to G-desk on uiq where u can make your own desktop as you wish with as many pages, shortcuts etc as you want.
3 A panel similar to fish panel but more colourful with different creatures.

As has been mentioned on other forums a BBC iPlayer for us UK users would be cool - given that Apple iPhone has one I can't believe they still haven't got a streaming client for WinMo yet....

A panel which has a nicer interface for email (as opposed to the rather drab version under WinMo)....

I'll think of some more later

Ah - for those interested in such things (and I am not) social networking panels i.e. Facebook etc. would actually really push on the phone in terms of popularity and thus attract more developers to the Panels concept....

Originally Posted by Rontysee

2 A blank panel similar to G-desk on uiq where u can make your own desktop as you wish with as many pages, shortcuts etc as you want.

Yeah, i miss my old G-Desk after leaving UIQ for Xperia.

I also miss a way to reinstall the original panels. I have lost some of them, today panel and media panel, after trying out sbp mobile shell. You can not download them and i dont want to do a reset.

What about a coreplayer panel? Just as a shortcut of the prog, like the media panel, but for the coreplayer.. Or just an DivX panel dunno, but I think a more detailed multimedia panel would be useful.. But I think hard work tough:s greez, cad^^

Originally Posted by up2mee

Yeah, i miss my old G-Desk after leaving UIQ for Xperia.

I also miss a way to reinstall the original panels. I have lost some of them, today panel and media panel, after trying out sbp mobile shell. You can not download them and i dont want to do a reset.

I think there is a way, look in windows folder, there is some cab's there that could be something, worth trying...

A youtube/online video panel and a facebook panel would be GREAT!

And I really liked Rontysee idea about a blank one where u can do whatever u like =)

Originally Posted by smaberg

I think there is a way, look in windows folder, there is some cab's there that could be something, worth trying...

Good idea, but there are no cab for MediaExperiencePanel or SonyEricssonPanel.
I had to restore them by restore the registry. Lucky for me that i had a backup.
It is a bit strange that you can not get the original panels from SonyEricsson download.

from what i've been able to see from looking at the sonyE sdk
then it should not be too much trouble porting any pure win32 c++
program into a panel

with .net one may have to make a c++ win32 stub which launch the .net
program in a frame

So who is going to be the first one to make a customized panel thats not official? I bet its going to be one from Xda =)