TouchSearch For Fremantle — Easily search the web
One of my favorite Desktop Widgets on my N800 was the “Internet Search” applet. However, I was disappointed to find out that it was being dropped in Fremantle and there would be no official replacement. Since I wanted to learn a little more about programming for Fremantle and something as useful as a Search Widget wasn’t available, I decided to tackle both at once.
The widget is called TouchSearch, and it allows you to search the web right from your Fremantle Desktop. It has a decidedly different feel than the Nokia-made widget because of some of the Fremantle Desktop restrictions, but accomplishes roughly the same thing.
TouchSearch is currently in the extras-testing que and is in need of testers! So, if Touchsearch sounds useful, give it a whirl. The package page is here and it contains a link to the bugtracker if you find issues or want to request new features. Please leave a thumbs up/down if you test it (packages need to have +10 karma to be eligible to be promoted to regular extras). Thanks!
Here are some screenshots on Scratchbox:
TR Said,
August 24, 2010 @ 4:30 pm
lovely app & finally a fantastic supporting website.
makes using touchsearch a joy…
many other maemo programmers simply let their app do it all. For users that’s not always the best thing.
You have it nailed.
very little operational problems on n900
all I found was a slowness and then a stall after I had tried to enter a malformed new search.
an essential and I fail to see why it’s still in ‘testing’
asv Said,
May 4, 2013 @ 6:47 pm
Thanks for this. It’s like awesome bar detached from firefox. They have mycroft, which can be added to the bar to find other search engines. Any way for that here?