In Car Home Screen is a Nokia N9 home screen for in car use. It shows four big buttons for launching in car applications and large controls for controlling the music player. Both portrait and landscape operation are supported. Swipe can be disabled so that the application replaces the default home screen.
The four application buttons can be used to start in car applications. Tapping on the music player area starts the music player if it is not running. The music player can be controlled with the music player control buttons. The application menu can be opened by pressing on the menu button. The application menu allows swipe to be disabled and enabled and the application to be exited. Disabling swipe is recommended so that In Car Home Screen replaces the default home screen.
The current version does not include an user interface to choose the four application buttons. However, it's possible to change them by running the following commands in the Terminal:
gconftool --set --type string /apps/meegotouchhome-incar/launcher/0/desktop_entry_path /usr/share/applications/top_left_application.desktop gconftool --set --type string /apps/meegotouchhome-incar/launcher/1/desktop_entry_path /usr/share/applications/top_right_application.desktop gconftool --set --type string /apps/meegotouchhome-incar/launcher/2/desktop_entry_path /usr/share/applications/bottom_left_application.desktop gconftool --set --type string /apps/meegotouchhome-incar/launcher/3/desktop_entry_path /usr/share/applications/bottom_right_application.desktop
The latest version of In Car Home Screen is meegotouchhome-incar_0.1.3_armel.deb.
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In Car Home Screen can be uninstalled like any other application by starting Settings, selecting Applications, selecting Manage applications, selecting In Car Home Screen and then Uninstall.
There is no warranty! The author takes no responsibility of problems or loss of data caused by this application. Bugs can be reported to the author, Vesa Halttunen.
The original author has no plans to continue the development of In Car Home Screen. The following features would have been the next things to implement:
In Car Home Screen is written by Vesa Halttunen.