MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 May 2012
Front Page maemo.org and Nokia 770 turn seven On May 25, 2005, Nokia announced Maemo, the Nokia 770 and maemo.org went live. Ferenc Szekely highlighted the go-live of the community on the community's mailing list. At the time of the launch, GSMArena wrote: “Today Nokia announced the new Linux based Internet Tablet product category, the first device in this category is Nokia 770
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 May 2012
Front Page maemo.org and Nokia 770 turn seven On May 25, 2005, Nokia announced Maemo, the Nokia 770 and maemo.org went live. Ferenc Szekely highlighted the go-live of the community on the community's mailing list.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 23 Apr 2012
Front Page Maemo Community Council meeting outcomes On Tuesday, a Maemo Community Council meeting was held with the following agenda: 1.Welcome (back) to QGil/Update from Nokia(?) 2.
Epiphany marches on
Previously in this space we saw how the bright future of Epiphany looked like, and vague promises about incremental steps towards it were done. A month later, Epiphany 3.3.4 is out there , so let’s see how well we’ve done. There’s a lot of new stuff here, so let’s go step by step.
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.01
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-12-26 through 2012-01-01 As of 2012-01-02 Extras contains: total items 2796 ( 3) total open items 949 ( 1) open bugs 532 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 2 reopened 7 unconfirmed 329 open enhancements 417 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 176 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 14 Nov 2011
Front Page Nokia 3D World Gaze now available for Nokia N9 Nokia Beta Labs have released an application called “Nokia 3D World Gaze” that gives the user an augmented reality view of the world. It “gives you a new kind of viewpoint to the world, allowing you to see through the surface (and insides) of the planet all the way to the other side
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 7 Nov 2011
Front Page Qt Mobility 1.2 packages for Qt Maemo apps Attila Csipa , a former member of the Maemo Community Council, and currently in the employ of Nokia Developer has started updating the Qt Mobility packages in Maemo Extras. He's taken “a completely differently packaged libqtm-12 as the previous one, so I fully expect some breakage. On the flip side, the way I'm doing things should make it possible for applications depending on it not to trip over each other and avoid promotion deadlocks
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.45
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-10-31 through 2011-11-06 As of 2011-11-07 Extras contains: total items 2764 ( 2) total open items 1010 ( 10) open bugs 579 ( 6) critical/blocker 44 ( 1) “easyfix” 5 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 ( 1) unconfirmed 356 open enhancements 431 ( 4) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 187 ( 3) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (1%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free
A Subtilty in Overlaying Notification Windows on Maemo
I was recently hunting down a slightly annoying usability bug in Khweeteur, a Twitter / identi.ca client: Khweeteur can notify the user when there are new status updates, however, it wasn’t overlaying the notification window on the application window, like the email client does. I spent some time investigating the problem: the fix is easy, but non-obvious, so I’m recording it here. A notification window overlays the window whose WM_CLASS property matches the specified desktop entry (and is correctly configured in /etc/hildon-desktop/notification-groups.conf ).
Prague, Telepathy and HTML5 IM Client
Hey guys! Last week I’ve attended to GStreamerConf and LinuxConf conferences in Prague, and Siraj and I had the honor of having our current project for Collabora exposed on Collabora’s both.