Maemo Documentation Bug Jar 2010.44

A Quick Look at Documentation in Bugzilla 2010-10-25 through 2010-10-31 As of 2010-11-01 Documentation contains: total items 311 total open items 35 open bugs 29 critical/blocker 1 “easyfix” 0 “moreinfo” 1 “crash” 0 “patch” 0 reopened 0 unconfirmed 1 open enhancements 6 “easyfix” 0 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 0 reopened 0 unconfirmed 0 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 23 weeks): (33%) 7833 [User guide] Display Settings > Power saving mode not described in embedded user manual (11%) 6250 [Developer Guide] Fremantle osso-backup developer documentation is out of date (6%) 3324 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide, Using Maemo Address Book API example code is not synchronized with existing example_abook.c (6%) 3349 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide, Using Generic Platform Components: “Using HAL” code example is not found (6%) 3372 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide: Libconic Usage: example is not found (6%) 3375 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide: Bluetooth Libraries: example is not found (6%) 3379 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide, D-Bus Connectivity UI Interface: example is not found (6%) 3380 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide: Bluetooth DBUS UI dialogs: example is not found (6%) 3382 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide: Using Location API: example is not found (6%) 3384 [Developer Guide] Maemo Developer Guide, Using Connectivity Components: examples, linked from “Introduction” are not described actually in that chapter Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 23 weeks): (79%) 6376 [User guide] Mention that Keyboard arrow keys + Ctrl move between text entry fields (12%) 4724 [Example Applications] Lack of official documentation on how to use the accelerometer (7%) 1930 [Developer Guide] Lack of documentation on how to find determine which MMC cards, if any, are present (2%) 3931 [Developer Guide] Too many subsections in the documentation (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) (no entry) Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.44

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-10-25 through 2010-10-31 As of 2010-11-01 Maemo Official Applications contains: total items 3782 ( 21) total open items 883 ( 1) open bugs 507 critical/blocker 12 ( 5) “easyfix” 0 “moreinfo” 67 ( 6) “crash” 13 ( 1) “patch” 7 reopened 23 ( 3) unconfirmed 152 ( 9) open enhancements 376 ( 1) “easyfix” 2 “moreinfo” 4 “patch” 17 reopened 14 unconfirmed 67 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (13%) 3888 [Email] IMAP-IDLE not working (3%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (3%) 6009 [Utilities] “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (3%) 10613 [Chat & Call & SMS] screen glitches on incoming call (new this week) (3%) 3762 [Email] Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g.

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Meego 1.1 Released and Ready for Nokia N900 Smartphone

In Spring, Meego 1.0 was released, and today version 1.1 is now available. “The smartphone OS is a combination of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin ,” reported Inquirer’s Spencer Dalziel, “so it’s no wonder that this latest release looks like it was tailor made to fit Nokia’s excellent N900.”

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the Qt contribution ecosystem

After recently writing about the broken contribution process in Qt , I got a little bit inspired to see what the current ‘lay of the land’ of the Qt contribution ecosystem looks like. So, I did what any self-respecting hacker would do, and wrote a quick script over the course of a few hours to generate the statistics I wanted. Beware, gitstats takes a long while to run over repositories with a big history.

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WeTab – A Look at the first MeeGo Tablet

A lot has been written in German media about the WeTab . Mostly, every news magazine tried to compare the Tab to Apple’s iPad and came to the conclusion that it’s not an iPad. What a surprise! I’ve been using my WeTab 32GB for about a month, and this is what I can tell about it

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Application quality assurance in Linux distributions

We had a session about application QA in last weeken’d GSoC Mentor Summit . I explained how the Maemo Downloads approval process works in a completely open, crowdsourced way . This differs from many distributions where approval of new packages involves obscure decisions and secret handshakes.

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Getting webOS games on your N900 is not for the faint of heart

So the other day I posted that the Nokia N900 was able to run webOS games as shown in the video on Engadget. A reader, Kumar , submitted a comment to my post that linked to his installation guide that gives you step-by-step instructions for getting your N900 up and running.

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Hybrid application using QML and Qt C++

Though QML provides a nice way to design user interfaces, and JavaScript is employed there to implement the application logic and works pretty nice in many cases, we might still need Qt C++ in some situations (well, at least JavaScript has limited access outside its sandbox). 1) integrate QML into Qt C++ Suppose we have a QML file, named “myqml.qml”, like this: // this line should be “import QtQuick 1.0″ since Qt 4.7.1 import Qt 4.7 Rectangle {

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How to Install Asphalt5 WebOS Game on Nokia N900 – Guide/Tutorial

Installing Asphalt5 WebOS Game on Nokia N900 – Guide/Tutorial ============================================================= A guide/tutorial on how to install the game Asphalt5 on your Nokia N900. Feel free to comment or ask questions

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