[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi @all,

thank you to everyone who is interested i new things around CHT. But to set the foot on a line and to make things clear for all, there is no new announced CHT yet and i don't know who has told this or where the users get this special information from. MichelDiamond has nothing more written in his posting, that we are very, very busy.

First we will bring things in a good order, means bugfixes and little updates. Second there is also some new widget stuff in actually development. And there will be more new things so as rom advises and other new theme things for CHT.

But to make things clear once again, the CHT Base is no widgetpool. It is a home tab changer which gives the base for all this and not more. Sometimes i think that the users have forgotten what CHT is. It stays everybody free to rewrite the CHT core code, so far he is to download in the first postings here in this thread.

What for CHT is very important is the the fact of the used proformance. We have done and we are very busy with tests of all known widgets. We have seen an unnecessary higher use of CPU performance. We will publish these performance tests with some advise what the user can combine to have less or no performance issue.

About that, and the fact that there are a lot of users exists with other phones as the good old HD2, we will not have a internet search bar in the Home tab yet. First of all it uses performance, as second you don't have enough place to show all the search results. Then you have todo things outside of CHT to show that and you have to open the browser also outside of CHT. About that, and the fact that we have a very good internet search tab, we mean that is enough for the moment. There is a little new thing around all this, but this is in hot development.

It stays everybody from the widget coders free to do things like the internet search function or other things. For that cookie has published a lot of the base code. And so far as i know that guys as poyensa and also Dunc very busy with things like a search bar. So why should we do two things at the same time. This likes me the way to find out the wheel once again. We will put our work in the base not in the play toy. We use also the play toys from others, but we take a look to all this in a different way. To say it once again, CHT is the Base not the widget ;). This has cookie told all of us more then once.

Around all this think twice: so as the past has shown us all and the users ... who more we do, how more trouble the users have. And this is what the CHT Base will NOT do. The Base has to be simpel and clear. Every changing what is done in the past few weeks was an issue that we had have more then 900 PM's and mails, where we was asked to fix things. About that we will fix some little things first. Not three steps before the first one. Step by Step, huhu huhu.

About a calendar widget:

what has to be there. Users, please come up with ideas what you want in this widget. Only the date, or the week, or the month. Tasks, dates and appointments? Things that are exists in the calendar tab? Or more that is allready there in the base widgets?

Last but not least:

my wish is.. may be the widgets running outside of the dev mode and that they are un installable in the future, without to destroy the registry or sense of users phone and his own hard work.